{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Soul Revival Church Podcast","title":"YELLOW: How is your friendship with Jesus?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2721,"description":"The final colour. The yellow bead. Heaven.\nWe begin with Soul Revival's vision week, where Stu outlines Soul Revival Church's vision for 2026: a church that proudly calls itself \"boring\" because all it's doing is putting into practice a textbook written 2,000 years ago about a bloke called Jesus. The vision: Jesus Changes Everything. And the mission? Share the truth and love of Jesus with everyone, everywhere.\nCicadas live underground for seven years, surviving in darkness, sucking sap from tree roots. Then one day they dig up, emerge into blinding light, crawl up a tree, shed their chrysalis, grow wings, and fly. And they wee. Out of pure joy.\nThat's what becoming a Christian is like. You don't have to keep stumbling in the dark of your own sin. Jesus is the light who shows the way back to God.\nBut here's Stu's challenge: don't go back in the hole. Sin is sweet for a season. It's enticing, but it doesn't last.\nStu gets honest about why people leave the church—better friendships outside than inside, taking church for granted, or the world being too attractive. The yellow bead is our hope of eternal life. Revelation 21 paints the picture: no more death, mourning, crying, or pain. God dwelling with His people forever. A new heaven and new earth where the glory of God is the light.\nIt's not about what we do but who we're with. Jesus. Because of Him, God adopts us as His children. We belong to a new family. Eternal life is secured forever by the Holy Spirit.\nStu closes with the simplest question: How are you with your friendship with Jesus? If you've been wondering whether you still want to hang out with Him, Jesus' response is, \"I never left you. I'm always here. And I love you.\"\nScripture: Revelation 21\nSpeaker: Stu Crawshaw\nSeries: Colours of Life","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VbbeNx8dwFPBwwsJaPIEyucZZMK5J4MD4n5mvpDSfco/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83YjZk/MmMyOGIyMDc1YjMw/NDQyZGZhNTJjMWU0/MmRmZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}