{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"922 Ministries - The CORE & St. Peter Lutheran","title":"Here is the Church (Casual to Committed Christian 4 - Pastor Steve)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1623,"description":"What would it take for a church to say, \"We have enough. Please stop bringing gifts\"? It happened once, in Exodus 35, when God's people gave so willingly that Moses had to tell them to stop.\nIn week four of the Casual to Committed Christian series, Pastor Steve Waldschmidt looks at the four-times-repeated word \"willing\" in Exodus 35 and asks an honest question: why are we so often less than willing to serve and give? Sometimes it's a casual, consumer attitude. Sometimes it's excuses like \"I'm too busy\" or \"I'm not good at anything.\" Sometimes it's an old wound from being overloaded or overlooked.\nThe Israelites who gave so freely were the same people who had just melted their gold into a golden calf. What changed? They heard that God is \"compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love,\" and forgiving. A willing heart can't be commanded; it can only be changed. Jesus was never casual about us. He willingly laid down his life, and his willing heart covers our unwilling ones. That grace turns serving from \"I have to\" into \"I get to.\"","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/SmcptMfUFUmVjlIkwETl_QbE0AQZxjIqZhbOZpkgiGc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hODE2/Zjg0OTNkMGE3YmY5/MGM3ZDQxMzQxOWQ2/YzNkYS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}