WEBVTT 0 00:00:04.890 --> 00:00:07.354 Welcome to the Willow Ridge Sermons podcast. 1 00:00:07.482 --> 00:00:11.150 This is where you can find audio from Sunday morning messages and more. 2 00:00:11.300 --> 00:00:14.442 Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss future episodes. 3 00:00:14.506 --> 00:00:16.030 And thanks for listening. 4 00:00:20.850 --> 00:00:21.982 Well, good morning. 5 00:00:22.116 --> 00:00:28.710 If you have your Bibles, and I hope you do, I want to invite you to join me in Luke Five and Matthew Nine this morning. 6 00:00:28.860 --> 00:00:30.454 So we're going to look at those as well. 7 00:00:30.492 --> 00:00:33.702 If you've been here the last several weeks, you know we're going to start off in Acts Two. 8 00:00:33.756 --> 00:00:34.966 You don't have to turn there. 9 00:00:35.068 --> 00:00:39.430 Our main focuses are going to be the Luke Five and the Matthew Nine. 10 00:00:39.500 --> 00:00:41.814 I want to just echo a little bit what Dave said. 11 00:00:41.852 --> 00:00:48.762 If you're not serving, we would love to help you connect in a way that you can serve in the life of our church, to serve one another as a family. 12 00:00:48.896 --> 00:00:50.614 It's a wonderful outpouring. 13 00:00:50.662 --> 00:00:52.618 It's a wonderful experience that you have. 14 00:00:52.704 --> 00:00:57.214 People will benefit from you serving and you will benefit from serving people. 15 00:00:57.332 --> 00:00:58.974 It's just what God does in that. 16 00:00:59.012 --> 00:01:02.410 And so we want to encourage you to take those steps. 17 00:01:02.490 --> 00:01:06.450 Well, this is the last week that we are in this discipleship study. 18 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:08.514 We'll be back in Genesis next week. 19 00:01:08.552 --> 00:01:09.826 I'm looking forward to that. 20 00:01:09.928 --> 00:01:18.346 But as we go, as you guys know, this is a message mixed with vision and practical approach to what we are doing starting September 10. 21 00:01:18.398 --> 00:01:21.286 So very quickly, again, we did this quick last week. 22 00:01:21.468 --> 00:01:27.538 Just a really quick overview on what our schedule here on Sunday mornings will look like starting September 10. 23 00:01:27.634 --> 00:01:35.126 At nine to 950, we will have discipleship that's kids discipleship, student discipleship, and adult discipleship. 24 00:01:35.238 --> 00:01:37.462 They will be meeting in different buildings. 25 00:01:37.526 --> 00:01:42.854 We'll give you clarity of where you are to go and what you are going to do before September the 10th. 26 00:01:42.902 --> 00:01:44.182 So be looking out for that. 27 00:01:44.256 --> 00:01:49.262 And then it ends at 950, because from 950 to 1015, we have fellowship in here. 28 00:01:49.316 --> 00:01:50.446 And that is for everyone. 29 00:01:50.548 --> 00:01:53.962 That's for our kids all the way through our adults parents. 30 00:01:54.026 --> 00:01:56.958 You will leave your discipleship class when it's over at 950. 31 00:01:57.044 --> 00:01:57.794 Go get your kids. 32 00:01:57.832 --> 00:02:01.550 We'll all come in here, somebody will spill orange juice, somebody will spill coffee. 33 00:02:01.630 --> 00:02:03.502 We'll all eat a lot of sugar. 34 00:02:03.566 --> 00:02:04.770 We'll call it a good day. 35 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.162 And then we'll prepare for worship, which will begin at 1015. 36 00:02:08.296 --> 00:02:10.294 All right, some more clarity on that. 37 00:02:10.332 --> 00:02:16.486 Our kids will continue to have kids worship except during special times where we have family worship in here together. 38 00:02:16.588 --> 00:02:27.702 But our kids will have their worship at 1015 and then primarily with our youth and adults here from 1015 to 1130 ish all right, clarity. 39 00:02:27.766 --> 00:02:28.138 Questions. 40 00:02:28.224 --> 00:02:29.242 Every week we get questions. 41 00:02:29.296 --> 00:02:30.170 And we love these. 42 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:31.818 So keep these coming to us. 43 00:02:31.904 --> 00:02:37.774 We don't know what we're not communicating clearly unless you make us aware and you guys are doing that. 44 00:02:37.812 --> 00:02:41.182 So three things I want to answer this morning before we get into this. 45 00:02:41.236 --> 00:02:42.794 So you'll see we got these Willow studies. 46 00:02:42.842 --> 00:02:49.234 These are all of our studies that we're going to be doing for our adults on Sunday morning during that 09:00 discipleship hour. 47 00:02:49.352 --> 00:02:50.894 And we made an adjustment. 48 00:02:50.942 --> 00:02:54.190 We made a change on one of the names of one of the studies. 49 00:02:54.270 --> 00:03:00.706 So before there was a class that was going to be or a study that was going to be taught called Hurts Habits and Hangups. 50 00:03:00.738 --> 00:03:14.250 And where we got that verbiage from was a lot of what we have been doing in our celebrate recovery and we felt like that communicated a bridge over but different than Cr and what we have been doing in Cr and allowing us to continue to build off of that. 51 00:03:14.320 --> 00:03:17.290 And there ended up being some confusion with that. 52 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:22.458 So more accurate is defining God's peace and purpose in the struggles of life. 53 00:03:22.544 --> 00:03:27.182 And so there is a description, this is on the second page, the inside page of that. 54 00:03:27.236 --> 00:03:35.102 And so I want to encourage you to read over that gives a great description, better than I can say this morning of what this study is going to be about. 55 00:03:35.236 --> 00:03:47.746 Robert Stevens and Mark Babb are going to be leading that, excited to see from their experiences as they've walked through these different things in their own life and seen God's purpose and struggle come through and see what victory lives like. 56 00:03:47.768 --> 00:03:48.002 That. 57 00:03:48.056 --> 00:03:52.246 In the midst of going through that, I want to encourage you to be a part of that. 58 00:03:52.268 --> 00:03:55.846 So that was question number one, if you're like, why is there a new study that's in here? 59 00:03:55.868 --> 00:03:57.426 And why is one that's been pulled? 60 00:03:57.458 --> 00:03:59.638 We just changed a title for it. 61 00:03:59.724 --> 00:04:06.650 Number two, do I have to sign up or can I just show up right now? 62 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:07.610 I get it. 63 00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:11.066 Hey, I want to just show up and kind of see and experience and go and do it. 64 00:04:11.088 --> 00:04:11.850 I'm not quite sure. 65 00:04:11.920 --> 00:04:13.482 Here's what we're asking, all right? 66 00:04:13.616 --> 00:04:14.666 We're new to this. 67 00:04:14.768 --> 00:04:19.742 We're new to kind of doing things this way and we are a church that says, hey, just show up. 68 00:04:19.796 --> 00:04:20.894 And we love that, right? 69 00:04:20.932 --> 00:04:23.086 We love just being able to show up and do those things. 70 00:04:23.188 --> 00:04:33.726 What we are asking, especially for this first round of class studies that we're going to be doing together, all right, is we're going to ask that you sign up for those. 71 00:04:33.828 --> 00:04:36.710 There is a QR code on the back that'll walk you through that. 72 00:04:36.780 --> 00:04:46.406 If you don't want to do the QR code, if you don't want to deal with all that, if you don't like technology, if your flip phone will not work with that, all right, you can come up, you can write your name on this paper. 73 00:04:46.508 --> 00:04:48.662 You can circle the one you want to be a part of. 74 00:04:48.716 --> 00:04:49.794 You can hand it to Dave. 75 00:04:49.842 --> 00:04:50.866 Dave will get you connected. 76 00:04:50.898 --> 00:04:51.254 All right? 77 00:04:51.292 --> 00:04:52.774 He'll call you on your rotary phone. 78 00:04:52.812 --> 00:04:55.734 We'll get it all worked out and you'll be good to go. 79 00:04:55.772 --> 00:04:56.118 Okay. 80 00:04:56.204 --> 00:05:00.462 Now, if you show up, if you're like, hey, I didn't even know about all of this, right? 81 00:05:00.516 --> 00:05:06.174 I haven't been to church in the last six weeks, and I show up that day, and I want to be a part of a study because I hear that we're doing something like that. 82 00:05:06.212 --> 00:05:07.614 I keep calling, trying to say class. 83 00:05:07.652 --> 00:05:08.960 And it's a study, right? 84 00:05:09.970 --> 00:05:11.086 Are we going to kick you out? 85 00:05:11.108 --> 00:05:18.110 No, we're not going to kick you out, but there are certain studies that we have to prepare for, for the materials and the things that are going to be used. 86 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:27.762 And then there's going to be certain studies that if you just show up or if you've got a friend that's meeting here that day and they're not signed up either, so we're not going to say, no, you can't be a part. 87 00:05:27.816 --> 00:05:28.774 You have to leave. 88 00:05:28.892 --> 00:05:31.894 But it extremely helps us out on that. 89 00:05:31.932 --> 00:05:33.894 If you can go ahead and sign. 90 00:05:33.932 --> 00:05:39.030 Up because we are limited to space, there is a chance that some of these studies will get full. 91 00:05:39.100 --> 00:05:39.558 All right? 92 00:05:39.644 --> 00:05:45.962 And so we want to make sure that we can accommodate for that to eliminate as much confusion as we possibly can. 93 00:05:46.016 --> 00:05:49.434 So please go ahead and sign up. 94 00:05:49.472 --> 00:05:51.866 For the study that you would like to be a part of. 95 00:05:51.968 --> 00:05:56.590 And then the other question we got this week is, what if I'm serving during the 09:00 hour? 96 00:05:56.740 --> 00:05:58.426 What if I'm serving during the 09:00. 97 00:05:58.458 --> 00:06:01.054 Hour and I want to still be. 98 00:06:01.092 --> 00:06:02.622 A part of a study, though? 99 00:06:02.676 --> 00:06:04.110 Okay, a couple of things. 100 00:06:04.180 --> 00:06:09.026 Please remember, we are still continuing on with a lot of what we are doing with our small groups that will. 101 00:06:09.048 --> 00:06:10.594 Be meeting at different nights and different. 102 00:06:10.632 --> 00:06:11.918 Times in different places. 103 00:06:12.014 --> 00:06:13.886 We got men's studies, we've got women's studies. 104 00:06:13.918 --> 00:06:18.546 We've got all sorts of options that are there outside of the 09:00 Sunday morning, however. 105 00:06:18.648 --> 00:06:21.618 But if you're like, well, I want to serve. 106 00:06:21.714 --> 00:06:27.638 And I know that I serve at 09:00 A.m., but I'm only going to serve every other week or once every three weeks or once a month. 107 00:06:27.724 --> 00:06:29.986 Is it okay if I miss because I'm going to serve? 108 00:06:30.018 --> 00:06:37.370 And the answer to that is absolutely, it's okay for you to miss because you're serving, and you'll do that being transparent with you. 109 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:44.682 There's certain studies that are more open to someone whose schedule isn't going to allow them to be there every week because of that. 110 00:06:44.736 --> 00:06:46.910 And so if you're curious, you can give us a call. 111 00:06:46.980 --> 00:06:50.766 You can stop by, talk to Dave or myself, and we would love to. 112 00:06:50.788 --> 00:06:51.934 Get you connected with that. 113 00:06:51.972 --> 00:06:52.366 Okay. 114 00:06:52.468 --> 00:06:53.466 Really excited. 115 00:06:53.578 --> 00:06:55.054 Keep asking your questions. 116 00:06:55.172 --> 00:07:06.754 We're going to still keep trying to give clarity the best that we can as we go into this different season that we haven't done things like this before, but we're excited to see what the Lord is going to do with that. 117 00:07:06.792 --> 00:07:08.242 So for the last three weeks. 118 00:07:08.296 --> 00:07:14.390 And this being week four, we're going to continue on with looking at Acts chapter two, verses 42 through 47 as we start off. 119 00:07:14.460 --> 00:07:22.934 And what Acts 242 through 47 does is it gives you a glimpse into what life was like for Christians in the first church. 120 00:07:22.982 --> 00:07:23.450 All right? 121 00:07:23.520 --> 00:07:37.166 And so Jesus comes, dies, is buried, is resurrected, he ascends the Holy Spirit falls, people get saved, the church is formed and this is what the church looks like. 122 00:07:37.268 --> 00:07:42.862 It's raw, it is perfected in Christ, but it's still working through its practices. 123 00:07:42.926 --> 00:07:45.314 As you read Acts, you see that. 124 00:07:45.432 --> 00:07:57.090 But what we see is this coming together of people of different socioeconomic backgrounds, different cultural backgrounds in some instances, different languages in some instances. 125 00:07:57.170 --> 00:08:03.586 And they are coming together, they're becoming this church family and they are creating disciples. 126 00:08:03.698 --> 00:08:12.250 And what we see in 42 through 47 is the overall picture of the church and the overall picture of the discipleship process that we see. 127 00:08:12.320 --> 00:08:28.170 And what I draw from this as I read is that in this process, this one unified process that this church is doing is that there's different strategies to reach and to help and to connect with different people for the sake of the Gospel. 128 00:08:28.250 --> 00:08:28.734 Okay? 129 00:08:28.852 --> 00:08:31.838 So this isn't a small group that we're reading about. 130 00:08:32.004 --> 00:08:39.826 This is this big C church, right, that scattered out in the practices of what we see. 131 00:08:39.848 --> 00:08:41.266 So let's read this. 132 00:08:41.368 --> 00:08:41.842 It says. 133 00:08:41.896 --> 00:08:50.690 And they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers and honor came upon every soul. 134 00:08:50.770 --> 00:08:58.070 And many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles, and all who believed were together and had all things in common. 135 00:08:58.140 --> 00:09:04.346 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all as any had need. 136 00:09:04.448 --> 00:09:14.686 And day by day attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. 137 00:09:14.788 --> 00:09:19.674 And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. 138 00:09:19.722 --> 00:09:21.534 So here's been what each week has been about. 139 00:09:21.572 --> 00:09:23.982 There's three discipleship strategies that we see. 140 00:09:24.036 --> 00:09:35.410 The first one we talked about at week two is relational discipleship where we see that believers come together to grow in a personal relationship with one another as they grow in personal relationship with God. 141 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.158 So this wasn't just friends hanging out, getting to know each other better. 142 00:09:39.244 --> 00:09:48.038 This was a group of people who were not friends, who were coming together, who were brothers and sisters in Christ, who were deepening their relationship with one another. 143 00:09:48.124 --> 00:09:53.366 And the foundation in which they do that off of is their relationship with the Lord. 144 00:09:53.478 --> 00:09:53.978 All right? 145 00:09:54.064 --> 00:10:01.998 So God is the focus and how God works as they come alongside together is to grow them in relationship with one another. 146 00:10:02.084 --> 00:10:13.210 And so we talk about this that relational discipleship is one another ministry it's brother and sister ministry, brother and brother ministry, sister and sister ministry. 147 00:10:13.290 --> 00:10:17.678 And so we look at this as this is peer to peer discipleship. 148 00:10:17.774 --> 00:10:19.250 This is where life happens. 149 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:21.058 This is where discussions take place. 150 00:10:21.144 --> 00:10:23.934 This is where you bear your burden and bear your soul. 151 00:10:23.982 --> 00:10:25.854 This is where you come for your struggles. 152 00:10:25.902 --> 00:10:30.706 This is where you celebrate your victories together largely at our church. 153 00:10:30.738 --> 00:10:33.186 This is what we've seen in our small groups. 154 00:10:33.218 --> 00:10:41.574 But we're continuing this on in different formats in some of these relational discipleship studies that you see that we're going to be offering on Sunday mornings. 155 00:10:41.622 --> 00:10:43.590 But that's not the only discipleship. 156 00:10:43.750 --> 00:10:48.106 We also see theological discipleship that takes place. 157 00:10:48.208 --> 00:10:51.414 It says that they devoted themselves to the apostles teachings, right? 158 00:10:51.472 --> 00:10:58.730 So you've got these young new believers, like young in the faith, believers all various ages. 159 00:10:58.810 --> 00:11:01.726 And so they need to understand like what do we believe? 160 00:11:01.908 --> 00:11:03.166 What do we believe? 161 00:11:03.348 --> 00:11:06.126 And so this is what we see with theological discipleship. 162 00:11:06.238 --> 00:11:11.426 Believers come together to grow in their right understanding of the word of God. 163 00:11:11.528 --> 00:11:19.506 And the more that we know about God, the more that our faith is grounded in proper biblical doctrine. 164 00:11:19.538 --> 00:11:21.560 And that's important for us, right? 165 00:11:22.090 --> 00:11:29.950 We want to make sure that our foundation is set on Christ and that that foundation is set on solid belief. 166 00:11:30.130 --> 00:11:32.474 So that when the storms of life come, right? 167 00:11:32.512 --> 00:11:51.038 When the storms and the pole of culture comes, when the storms of different areas of thinking comes, that we know that our foundation is on Christ because we know what we believe, we know why we believe that and we know who that's for. 168 00:11:51.204 --> 00:11:53.742 And so that's what theological discipleship is. 169 00:11:53.876 --> 00:11:56.594 Theological is not a scary word, right? 170 00:11:56.712 --> 00:12:02.610 It's a word that helps us understand what we believe, why we believe that and then who is that for? 171 00:12:02.680 --> 00:12:05.474 And so our studies will be covering that as well. 172 00:12:05.512 --> 00:12:12.642 We're going to be doing a systematic theology class that talks about the doctrine of the word of God that I will be leading along with Mike VOTT. 173 00:12:12.706 --> 00:12:17.286 We'll be doing another class that's an apologetics class that answers why do we believe this? 174 00:12:17.308 --> 00:12:18.646 And answers to tough questions. 175 00:12:18.748 --> 00:12:23.146 And then we're going to be doing a mythiology class of understanding global missions, right? 176 00:12:23.248 --> 00:12:36.286 And why do we go to the ends of the earth to share the gospel with men and women and children who have never heard and in a lot of cases do not even have the option to hear unless someone goes. 177 00:12:36.468 --> 00:12:38.094 There's not a church down the road. 178 00:12:38.132 --> 00:12:40.000 For them, for them to go to, right? 179 00:12:40.850 --> 00:12:42.494 So that answers the who do we do this for? 180 00:12:42.532 --> 00:12:43.326 We do this for the name and. 181 00:12:43.348 --> 00:12:46.238 The glory of God and we do this for those who haven't heard, what do we believe? 182 00:12:46.324 --> 00:12:47.138 Why do we believe it? 183 00:12:47.144 --> 00:12:48.210 And then who is this for? 184 00:12:48.280 --> 00:12:50.894 And then, so we call this theological discipleship. 185 00:12:50.942 --> 00:12:52.270 This is truth ministry. 186 00:12:52.430 --> 00:12:55.970 We want to understand the truth of God's word, right? 187 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.990 And if you're here and you're like, man, those sound like really hard classes. 188 00:12:59.070 --> 00:13:04.118 Like my hope, my challenge for you, what I just want to press into you is to say trust what the. 189 00:13:04.124 --> 00:13:06.246 Holy Spirit can do in you, all right? 190 00:13:06.348 --> 00:13:07.926 Trust what the Holy Spirit can do. 191 00:13:07.948 --> 00:13:11.482 In you and what God can teach you and how God can use you. 192 00:13:11.536 --> 00:13:15.178 And so what these classes are going to look like this is more student. 193 00:13:15.264 --> 00:13:17.946 To teacher discipleship, okay? 194 00:13:18.048 --> 00:13:19.526 So you've got a group of individuals. 195 00:13:19.558 --> 00:13:24.654 That have studied, that understand, that are constantly learning and what we would like. 196 00:13:24.692 --> 00:13:27.662 To do is come before you and teach you, right? 197 00:13:27.716 --> 00:13:32.254 What this says, let you ask questions in that as well. 198 00:13:32.452 --> 00:13:43.620 And then lastly we've got missional discipleship where believers come together in their community to share the truth of Jesus Christ with those who are not yet followers of Christ. 199 00:13:44.390 --> 00:13:46.718 We see in Acts chapter two that. 200 00:13:46.744 --> 00:13:48.406 The Lord added to their number day. 201 00:13:48.428 --> 00:13:53.222 By day those who were being saved, the spread of Christianity that started out. 202 00:13:53.356 --> 00:13:56.534 Largely in a very small group of. 203 00:13:56.572 --> 00:13:59.450 Close friends and followers of Jesus. 204 00:14:00.110 --> 00:14:14.560 And then through the power of the Holy Spirit the gospel spreads and thousands upon thousands upon thousands come to know Christ. 205 00:14:15.490 --> 00:14:36.920 And because of missional discipleship, you and I can sit here today and proclaim that Christ is our Lord and Savior because at some point in time a missionary did the work of the Lord to provide you the opportunity to hear the gospel, right? 206 00:14:37.370 --> 00:14:45.720 And so when we see this as missional discipleship, this is believer to unbeliever discipleship, right? 207 00:14:46.490 --> 00:14:47.854 How's that discipleship? 208 00:14:47.922 --> 00:14:58.490 Because Jesus calls us to go and make disciples and we're to do that amongst lostness, not just amongst the church. 209 00:14:59.390 --> 00:15:08.320 If we only raise disciples from those who are here, then the work and the move of God would die here. 210 00:15:10.130 --> 00:15:12.250 And this is what we're going to look at this morning. 211 00:15:12.420 --> 00:15:15.474 We have to go, we have to go. 212 00:15:15.672 --> 00:15:22.814 And so missional discipleship is what we're going to refer to this morning as compassionate ministry. 213 00:15:22.942 --> 00:15:23.874 All right? 214 00:15:24.072 --> 00:15:27.898 Missional discipleship is compassionate ministry. 215 00:15:28.014 --> 00:15:32.918 We'll see why we feel like this is the word that we can use to describe it. 216 00:15:32.924 --> 00:15:37.766 So we've had this discipleship circle that we've used to help illustrate this for us. 217 00:15:37.788 --> 00:15:40.086 And so we see this on the board. 218 00:15:40.188 --> 00:15:47.466 My eyes are now so bad I cannot read the back and so I'm going to turn around and I apologize of this back view of me, right? 219 00:15:47.488 --> 00:15:48.762 You're like but that's better than the front. 220 00:15:48.816 --> 00:15:49.162 All right? 221 00:15:49.216 --> 00:15:54.042 So we got our relational discipleship, we've got our missional discipleship, we got our theological discipleship. 222 00:15:54.106 --> 00:16:04.160 At the very end of the message we'll come back into this and what we see is this fully engaged discipleship process for you and for me to be a part of, right? 223 00:16:04.530 --> 00:16:21.430 This is not just for the church members, this is for all of us who call Willow Ridge home as brothers and sisters in Christ all the way through of what we're building into our kids, our students, our adults, our staff, whether you call this place home yet or not, right? 224 00:16:21.500 --> 00:16:23.990 This is what we want to be a part of and what we want to do. 225 00:16:24.060 --> 00:16:29.686 So let's look this morning, though, and understand where we understand that missional. 226 00:16:29.718 --> 00:16:32.140 Discipleship, we have to go. 227 00:16:32.670 --> 00:16:38.220 We have to go and do something with what has happened with us. 228 00:16:40.130 --> 00:16:41.294 We've got to take it to people. 229 00:16:41.332 --> 00:16:43.920 Who do not know. 230 00:16:44.370 --> 00:16:45.134 Let's look at this. 231 00:16:45.172 --> 00:16:48.110 Luke, five verses, one through eleven. 232 00:16:49.570 --> 00:16:56.302 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he, this is Jesus. 233 00:16:56.366 --> 00:16:59.758 Was standing by the lake of Geneserate. 234 00:16:59.934 --> 00:17:07.918 And he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing one of their nets. 235 00:17:07.934 --> 00:17:11.800 So just kind of give you some biblical context of what is happening here. 236 00:17:12.330 --> 00:17:14.354 Jesus comes up on a boat. 237 00:17:14.402 --> 00:17:19.878 There's some guys that have been out there, they've been fishing that they haven't been super productive. 238 00:17:19.974 --> 00:17:24.794 They're now cleaning and washing their nets, getting ready to be done for the day. 239 00:17:24.912 --> 00:17:32.330 And then a teacher comes up and is going to engage this teacher being Jesus, okay? 240 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:41.722 So getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land, and he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 241 00:17:41.866 --> 00:17:42.414 So great. 242 00:17:42.452 --> 00:17:44.722 So I've been out working hard doing this. 243 00:17:44.856 --> 00:17:47.822 Now you use my boat as my stage. 244 00:17:47.966 --> 00:17:49.614 But Simon got to hear what Jesus. 245 00:17:49.662 --> 00:17:52.114 Was talking about, and when he had. 246 00:17:52.152 --> 00:18:00.470 Finished speaking, he said to Simon, put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. 247 00:18:01.050 --> 00:18:05.782 And Simon answered, Master, we toiled all. 248 00:18:05.836 --> 00:18:07.480 Night and took nothing. 249 00:18:07.950 --> 00:18:11.322 But at your word, I will let down the net. 250 00:18:11.376 --> 00:18:14.620 So let me give you some context of what's happening here, okay? 251 00:18:16.590 --> 00:18:24.160 Tuesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, we had a plumbing problem at the Bradbury house. 252 00:18:25.170 --> 00:18:25.662 All right? 253 00:18:25.716 --> 00:18:35.090 In my 44 years of experience, when it comes to fixing things, here's what I've learned. 254 00:18:35.750 --> 00:18:45.934 I can make the problem worse, and I usually end up like the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 255 00:18:46.062 --> 00:18:49.560 That phone a friend lifeline gets wore out, right? 256 00:18:51.210 --> 00:18:53.558 So I'm like, let me read on. 257 00:18:53.564 --> 00:18:55.174 The Internet, which is always the right. 258 00:18:55.212 --> 00:18:56.920 Thing to do when you know nothing. 259 00:18:57.390 --> 00:19:01.020 About the problem, but Google's going to help you. 260 00:19:01.470 --> 00:19:03.242 So I see what the problem is. 261 00:19:03.296 --> 00:19:08.300 And the Lord spoke to me and said, you can't handle that, right? 262 00:19:09.790 --> 00:19:14.718 So I called a friend of mine and said, hey, here's what's going on. 263 00:19:14.804 --> 00:19:18.302 Can you come by here today and take a look at this for me? 264 00:19:18.436 --> 00:19:21.280 And he said, sure, that's not that big of a deal. 265 00:19:21.650 --> 00:19:26.434 He meant, like, it's not a big deal to come by, but I kind of received it in the moment I was like, Anybody can do this, right? 266 00:19:26.472 --> 00:19:29.460 So he came by and he fixed the problem. 267 00:19:30.950 --> 00:19:35.700 The professional, the plumber fixed the problem. 268 00:19:36.390 --> 00:19:39.400 And as he's fixing the problem, I asked a question. 269 00:19:40.250 --> 00:19:42.134 I said, Can I stand back and just watch? 270 00:19:42.172 --> 00:19:43.734 I promise I won't say anything. 271 00:19:43.932 --> 00:19:45.240 And he's like, absolutely. 272 00:19:46.250 --> 00:19:48.538 Now, I stood there. 273 00:19:48.704 --> 00:19:49.990 I was quiet. 274 00:19:50.150 --> 00:19:52.342 I watched, I observed. 275 00:19:52.486 --> 00:19:53.558 I was amazed. 276 00:19:53.654 --> 00:19:54.810 I will call him again. 277 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:55.660 All right. 278 00:19:56.590 --> 00:20:04.720 How do you think it would have landed if this problem became more than what he thought it would be? 279 00:20:06.690 --> 00:20:14.706 And you've got the guy who's standing there with a theology degree telling the plumber, hey, have you ever thought about. 280 00:20:14.728 --> 00:20:16.500 Doing this instead of that? 281 00:20:17.270 --> 00:20:18.260 Not well. 282 00:20:19.590 --> 00:20:26.246 Jesus a carpenter, a teacher goes to. 283 00:20:26.268 --> 00:20:30.840 A fisherman who by trade knows what he's doing. 284 00:20:31.690 --> 00:20:35.430 And Jesus says to him, I see where you failed. 285 00:20:35.930 --> 00:20:37.720 Let me show you how to do this. 286 00:20:39.130 --> 00:20:43.990 Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch. 287 00:20:44.350 --> 00:20:45.786 You see, the fishermen would have never. 288 00:20:45.808 --> 00:20:48.234 Gone out into the deep water at that time of the year. 289 00:20:48.272 --> 00:20:51.040 And where they were, all the fish would have been in the shallow water. 290 00:20:51.970 --> 00:20:57.150 And he would have known that because generationally, he was a fisherman. 291 00:20:57.730 --> 00:20:59.550 It put food on the table. 292 00:20:59.890 --> 00:21:02.160 It took care of the needs that he had. 293 00:21:02.850 --> 00:21:04.500 He knew what he was doing. 294 00:21:05.110 --> 00:21:08.420 But Jesus had something different in mind. 295 00:21:10.150 --> 00:21:10.754 Verse five. 296 00:21:10.792 --> 00:21:11.506 Let me go back to that. 297 00:21:11.528 --> 00:21:14.802 And Simon answered, master, we toiled all night and took nothing. 298 00:21:14.856 --> 00:21:16.686 But at your word, I will let down the nets. 299 00:21:16.718 --> 00:21:26.600 And I think this is significant because I think he had sat there and he had heard Jesus's teaching, and he knew there was something special about this man, and he listened to him. 300 00:21:27.210 --> 00:21:33.690 And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. 301 00:21:34.430 --> 00:21:36.426 They signaled to their partners in the. 302 00:21:36.448 --> 00:21:38.780 Other boat to come and help them. 303 00:21:39.310 --> 00:21:43.870 And when they came and filled both the boats, so they began to sink. 304 00:21:44.610 --> 00:21:54.210 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus'feet, saying, depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. 305 00:21:56.070 --> 00:21:57.474 For he and all who. 306 00:21:57.512 --> 00:22:02.500 Were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they have taken. 307 00:22:03.030 --> 00:22:08.658 And so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. 308 00:22:08.754 --> 00:22:11.874 And Jesus said to Simon, do not be afraid. 309 00:22:11.922 --> 00:22:14.920 From now on, you will be catching men. 310 00:22:15.530 --> 00:22:17.106 And when they had brought their boats. 311 00:22:17.138 --> 00:22:21.980 To land, they left everything and followed him. 312 00:22:22.990 --> 00:22:23.740 Everything. 313 00:22:25.790 --> 00:22:29.594 Can you imagine the greatest day of. 314 00:22:29.632 --> 00:22:37.790 Your career, the greatest miracle day that you've ever experienced? 315 00:22:38.690 --> 00:22:42.190 But you've experienced something even greater. 316 00:22:43.270 --> 00:22:56.040 And so you leave that commission check, you leave that promotion, you leave those resources behind, and you walk away. 317 00:22:56.890 --> 00:23:01.000 Must be something really special for that. 318 00:23:01.450 --> 00:23:03.000 Here's what was special. 319 00:23:03.770 --> 00:23:09.100 Jesus gives a call and Jesus says, I'm going to make you something. 320 00:23:09.950 --> 00:23:16.170 I'm going to turn you into someone that's different than who you are now. 321 00:23:16.320 --> 00:23:18.700 And that's what the Gospel does for us. 322 00:23:19.790 --> 00:23:22.302 The Gospel does something for us. 323 00:23:22.436 --> 00:23:31.230 There's this act of grace in the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus so that the Gospel can do something in us. 324 00:23:31.300 --> 00:23:38.180 It can save us, it can transform us, it can sanctify us so that it doesn't end there. 325 00:23:39.510 --> 00:23:43.314 So many of us as Christians are like, I'm good. 326 00:23:43.432 --> 00:23:46.258 The grace of Christ, he saved me. 327 00:23:46.344 --> 00:23:47.570 He's changing me. 328 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:51.110 And now for the rest of my life just gets to be about me. 329 00:23:51.180 --> 00:23:52.182 But that's not it. 330 00:23:52.236 --> 00:23:54.610 That's not the gospel, that's not the work of the Lord. 331 00:23:54.690 --> 00:23:57.410 And we miss that if that's our mindset. 332 00:23:57.490 --> 00:24:05.740 It's that God does something for us so that God can do something in us, so that God can do something through us. 333 00:24:06.590 --> 00:24:14.720 We're not called to sit on the couch while the game of Christianity is played out in front of us. 334 00:24:17.490 --> 00:24:18.640 We're called. 335 00:24:19.330 --> 00:24:25.234 We're equipped, we're empowered, we're transformed so. 336 00:24:25.272 --> 00:24:28.020 It can do something through us. 337 00:24:29.670 --> 00:24:31.140 Jesus does something. 338 00:24:32.310 --> 00:24:34.958 He does something for them. 339 00:24:35.144 --> 00:24:38.390 Hey, here's where there's some fish. 340 00:24:40.490 --> 00:24:43.030 Hey, here's the teachings of the kingdom. 341 00:24:43.770 --> 00:24:46.520 Let me do something for you. 342 00:24:47.050 --> 00:24:49.270 Jesus can do something in them. 343 00:24:49.340 --> 00:24:50.566 He's remarkable. 344 00:24:50.758 --> 00:24:58.010 Simon responded and obeyed to go back out and cast the nets as Jesus instructed. 345 00:24:58.510 --> 00:25:02.080 And look at his response in verse eight. 346 00:25:02.690 --> 00:25:04.320 Depart from me. 347 00:25:05.410 --> 00:25:11.280 Depart from me, for I'm a sinful man, O Lord, right? 348 00:25:14.710 --> 00:25:18.020 It's doing something in him. 349 00:25:18.950 --> 00:25:24.500 And then Jesus is like, I'm not going to depart from you. 350 00:25:24.970 --> 00:25:26.438 Here's what I need to happen. 351 00:25:26.604 --> 00:25:33.480 You come follow me, and I'm going to do something through you. 352 00:25:34.730 --> 00:25:38.434 I'm going to no longer catch fish, but you're going to catch men. 353 00:25:38.492 --> 00:25:43.514 In Matthew four, Jesus uses the phrase, probably the one that we're most familiar with. 354 00:25:43.632 --> 00:25:46.940 I will make you fishers of men. 355 00:25:47.550 --> 00:25:56.810 So for these fishermen that day and for us today, jesus says, I'm going to do something for you, something that you're incapable of doing yourself, the work of the cross. 356 00:25:56.890 --> 00:26:10.738 I'm going to do this for you so that I can do something in you, so that I can save you and be your Lord and Savior and king and bring you into my kingdom, into my family for my name, so that I can do something through you. 357 00:26:10.824 --> 00:26:13.198 And this call for you to missions. 358 00:26:13.294 --> 00:26:19.114 And so if you are a follower of Jesus, if you believe, sign sealed. 359 00:26:19.182 --> 00:26:20.262 Put the stamp on it. 360 00:26:20.316 --> 00:26:28.262 The day that I take my last breath here, I'm going to spend it in eternity with Jesus, then the call to missions is not a question. 361 00:26:28.396 --> 00:26:31.574 Is this for me, the call to mission? 362 00:26:31.622 --> 00:26:37.020 The question we ask ourselves this morning is this are you being obedient and saying yes to it? 363 00:26:37.790 --> 00:26:41.760 You are called to it, and so am I. 364 00:26:42.930 --> 00:26:43.870 It's not a question. 365 00:26:43.940 --> 00:26:44.960 Am I called? 366 00:26:45.730 --> 00:26:46.880 It's a question. 367 00:26:47.250 --> 00:26:48.670 Am I obedient? 368 00:26:50.530 --> 00:26:52.430 And what I love about Jesus. 369 00:26:54.310 --> 00:26:56.930 Jesus is going to be our model. 370 00:26:57.080 --> 00:26:58.930 For how to live on mission. 371 00:26:59.430 --> 00:27:08.450 I hope some of you, at some point in time in your life, I hope your feet touch foreign soil. 372 00:27:09.610 --> 00:27:22.454 Not because you got off of a cruise ship or an airplane for a vacation, which are wonderful and nice and I don't judge you, and I've done it myself, but that your feet touch foreign soil with the opportunity to carry. 373 00:27:22.502 --> 00:27:26.380 The gospel to men and women and children who have not heard. 374 00:27:27.710 --> 00:27:44.546 But every single one of us have an opportunity for our feet to touch the concrete and the asphalt and the grass of our neighborhood and live on mission for people that we know where. 375 00:27:44.568 --> 00:27:47.700 We live, work and play, every single one of us. 376 00:27:48.150 --> 00:27:58.870 So whether your call is to Afghanistan or your call is to your neighbor, we are all called to be on mission. 377 00:28:00.170 --> 00:28:00.886 That's what we see. 378 00:28:00.908 --> 00:28:03.000 So turned in Matthew nine. 379 00:28:07.050 --> 00:28:12.826 Verse 35, that's the model that we want to. 380 00:28:12.928 --> 00:28:15.754 Look at, verse 35. 381 00:28:15.792 --> 00:28:27.546 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and affliction. 382 00:28:27.578 --> 00:28:38.274 And so what we get here, Matthew, what Matthew gives us in Matthew 935, is this snapshot of the daily ministry of the life of Jesus, of what he did. 383 00:28:38.312 --> 00:28:43.426 Not everything's included, but it's this one little snapshot of what's there. 384 00:28:43.448 --> 00:28:51.682 So let's draw from this what we can learn about being on mission and living like Jesus did in missional discipleship. 385 00:28:51.746 --> 00:28:54.760 What we see from this is that Jesus went to people. 386 00:28:55.930 --> 00:28:58.280 Jesus went to people. 387 00:28:58.650 --> 00:29:06.538 As you read through the Gospels, you see city after city, town after town, lake after lake, opportunity, opportunity where Jesus went to people. 388 00:29:06.624 --> 00:29:09.180 Now, people came to Jesus as well. 389 00:29:09.710 --> 00:29:11.370 I don't want to say that never happened. 390 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:11.982 It does. 391 00:29:12.036 --> 00:29:13.246 We see that. 392 00:29:13.428 --> 00:29:19.086 But Jesus is always setting the example of what it means to go. 393 00:29:19.188 --> 00:29:20.478 I read a guy this week. 394 00:29:20.564 --> 00:29:21.614 Here's what he said. 395 00:29:21.732 --> 00:29:22.750 He's a math guy. 396 00:29:22.820 --> 00:29:28.830 He went and looked at geography and looked over all of these things in Jesus's three and a half years of ministry. 397 00:29:28.910 --> 00:29:38.322 What this guy believes is that Jesus traveled roughly 2500 miles in three and a half years of doing ministry. 398 00:29:38.386 --> 00:29:39.810 Let me give you some perspective. 399 00:29:39.890 --> 00:29:41.910 That's charleston to Los Angeles. 400 00:29:45.530 --> 00:29:47.160 You know how hot it is. 401 00:29:48.410 --> 00:29:50.086 It's a long way, right? 402 00:29:50.268 --> 00:29:51.686 Jesus went to people. 403 00:29:51.868 --> 00:29:53.498 Jesus shared with people. 404 00:29:53.664 --> 00:29:55.254 Says he taught in the synagogues. 405 00:29:55.302 --> 00:29:58.182 We see him teaching in the streets, we see him teaching in homes. 406 00:29:58.246 --> 00:30:02.214 We see Jesus with the big crowd and teaching, and we see Jesus in the small settings. 407 00:30:02.262 --> 00:30:03.610 But Jesus shared with the people. 408 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:06.942 He wasn't just some guy to come up and give you his autograph and go away. 409 00:30:06.996 --> 00:30:09.582 He was just not some guy to come get some things from that. 410 00:30:09.636 --> 00:30:12.880 Jesus taught about the kingdom of God. 411 00:30:13.650 --> 00:30:15.360 And Jesus called people. 412 00:30:16.370 --> 00:30:17.006 But we also. 413 00:30:17.028 --> 00:30:18.640 See that Jesus served people. 414 00:30:19.330 --> 00:30:20.658 It says that he taught about the. 415 00:30:20.664 --> 00:30:24.370 Gospel of the kingdom, healing every disease and every affliction. 416 00:30:24.890 --> 00:30:29.000 So this is what Jesus did. 417 00:30:30.250 --> 00:30:31.254 Well, I can't do that. 418 00:30:31.292 --> 00:30:32.310 That's Jesus. 419 00:30:33.130 --> 00:30:35.320 You can't do exactly these. 420 00:30:36.330 --> 00:30:37.698 But look at this. 421 00:30:37.884 --> 00:30:39.500 Jesus went to people. 422 00:30:41.310 --> 00:30:43.020 Jesus calls you to go. 423 00:30:44.990 --> 00:30:46.780 Jesus shared with people. 424 00:30:48.190 --> 00:30:50.540 Jesus has given you a story to tell. 425 00:30:52.290 --> 00:30:54.560 Jesus served people. 426 00:30:56.450 --> 00:31:01.840 Now, you and I cannot touch a blind man and heal him. 427 00:31:02.870 --> 00:31:05.074 You and I cannot feed thousands of. 428 00:31:05.112 --> 00:31:22.790 People with a few pieces of fish and bread, but we can serve those around us with simple acts of kindness that meet basic needs and make them feel loved. 429 00:31:23.610 --> 00:31:24.600 You're right. 430 00:31:25.770 --> 00:31:39.290 I can't do exactly what Jesus did, but I can have the heart and do what he did to go, to share, to serve. 431 00:31:40.370 --> 00:31:42.270 It's his ministry. 432 00:31:43.250 --> 00:31:47.594 Verse 36 when he saw the crowds. 433 00:31:47.642 --> 00:31:57.810 He had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 434 00:31:58.950 --> 00:31:59.326 Here's. 435 00:31:59.358 --> 00:32:00.500 What Jesus saw. 436 00:32:01.830 --> 00:32:03.220 I want to ask you. 437 00:32:05.770 --> 00:32:10.374 What do you see when you look at the. 438 00:32:10.412 --> 00:32:15.350 People of this world who are not followers of Jesus? 439 00:32:17.550 --> 00:32:19.180 Let me ask it a different way. 440 00:32:21.550 --> 00:32:26.026 What do you feel when you look. 441 00:32:26.048 --> 00:32:30.410 At people of this world who are not followers of Jesus? 442 00:32:32.530 --> 00:32:42.720 Anger, disgust, annoyance, pride, and self. 443 00:32:46.150 --> 00:32:47.780 What did Jesus feel? 444 00:32:49.350 --> 00:32:50.450 Compassion. 445 00:32:52.150 --> 00:32:53.330 Compassion. 446 00:32:54.790 --> 00:32:55.890 Compassion. 447 00:32:57.350 --> 00:33:04.870 It says that Jesus saw the people in Matthew describes them as that they were harassed and helpless. 448 00:33:05.290 --> 00:33:13.850 A literal translation of these words harassed and helpless is torn and thrown down, trash. 449 00:33:17.070 --> 00:33:24.590 They were treated and felt like trash, discarded. 450 00:33:26.450 --> 00:33:27.760 So what do they need? 451 00:33:28.450 --> 00:33:29.680 What do they need? 452 00:33:30.290 --> 00:33:31.434 They need confidence. 453 00:33:31.482 --> 00:33:32.534 Do they need motivation? 454 00:33:32.602 --> 00:33:33.970 Do they need empowerment? 455 00:33:34.950 --> 00:33:36.180 What do they need? 456 00:33:37.190 --> 00:33:37.842 No. 457 00:33:37.976 --> 00:33:43.278 What the scripture says what Jesus says is that they need a shepherd. 458 00:33:43.454 --> 00:33:45.438 They needed saving. 459 00:33:45.624 --> 00:33:47.394 They needed Jesus. 460 00:33:47.522 --> 00:33:53.126 Jesus saw people lost, broken, hurting themselves, hurting others. 461 00:33:53.228 --> 00:33:54.642 He saw broken homes. 462 00:33:54.706 --> 00:33:56.226 He saw broken marriages. 463 00:33:56.338 --> 00:33:59.718 He saw people in sinful and destructive lifestyles. 464 00:33:59.814 --> 00:34:04.780 And the solution was not more of what this world could provide. 465 00:34:06.430 --> 00:34:22.670 Jesus did not believe that the solution to the problem was next term's election was more education, was more social programs, was a self help strategy. 466 00:34:23.350 --> 00:34:33.810 Jesus said what they need is a shepherd, because they're sheep without a shepherd, they need Jesus. 467 00:34:35.690 --> 00:34:39.800 How would you fix the problems of this world? 468 00:34:41.930 --> 00:34:44.070 If your answer is anything or anyone. 469 00:34:44.140 --> 00:34:47.480 Other than Jesus, then you've missed it. 470 00:34:50.160 --> 00:35:01.310 Verse 37 then he said to the disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 471 00:35:02.260 --> 00:35:10.480 Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 472 00:35:10.820 --> 00:35:11.600 Whoa. 473 00:35:12.420 --> 00:35:14.130 Look at what Jesus said. 474 00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:22.340 Jesus didn't say as the shepherd. 475 00:35:23.640 --> 00:35:26.416 Hey, let's get some billboards. 476 00:35:26.608 --> 00:35:28.260 Let's get some marketing. 477 00:35:29.080 --> 00:35:29.908 Let's start. 478 00:35:29.994 --> 00:35:33.610 We've been on Facebook for a while, but we've got to get our Instagram going, right? 479 00:35:33.980 --> 00:35:35.524 We got to be active on Twitter. 480 00:35:35.572 --> 00:35:36.632 And not just have the account. 481 00:35:36.686 --> 00:35:39.290 Since 2005, we actually got to use it, right? 482 00:35:40.300 --> 00:35:42.490 And we got to sell them on this program. 483 00:35:43.520 --> 00:35:44.270 No. 484 00:35:45.680 --> 00:35:49.516 Jesus doesn't say, how can I, in. 485 00:35:49.538 --> 00:35:55.250 My time on earth that is limited in this capacity, make it to more and more people? 486 00:35:56.980 --> 00:36:08.470 Jesus says pray because the laborers us are few. 487 00:36:10.520 --> 00:36:17.000 Pray to the Lord to send them out into the harvest. 488 00:36:19.100 --> 00:36:47.280 And so missional discipleship is to send out laborers into the harvest to do what Jesus did, to see what Jesus saw and to bring them what they need, which is Jesus. 489 00:36:48.180 --> 00:36:55.460 And so that's why when we come to this missional discipleship is compassionate ministry. 490 00:36:56.200 --> 00:37:05.590 And so what we feel that our approach to this missional discipleship, that what we want to help you and I do is empower us. 491 00:37:06.700 --> 00:37:19.980 Empower us to connect lost people with Jesus, the sheep who needs a shepherd. 492 00:37:20.560 --> 00:37:28.190 We want to go out to the people, not just invite them to another worship service. 493 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:36.940 We want to go and share with them and create opportunities where we can share with them the truth of Jesus. 494 00:37:37.020 --> 00:37:38.544 And we want to serve them. 495 00:37:38.662 --> 00:37:45.490 We want to provide them with something they need, whether they follow Jesus or not. 496 00:37:47.140 --> 00:37:49.156 I got saved when I was 22. 497 00:37:49.338 --> 00:37:50.740 I realized this this morning. 498 00:37:50.810 --> 00:37:53.472 Most of you have heard my story of salvation. 499 00:37:53.616 --> 00:37:55.620 I'm not going to share that this morning. 500 00:37:55.770 --> 00:37:59.770 But I do want to share what started happening two years before that. 501 00:38:03.900 --> 00:38:08.924 When I look at the life that I lived and led at that point. 502 00:38:08.962 --> 00:38:11.070 In time, there was this. 503 00:38:13.520 --> 00:38:18.700 Defiant, rebellious knowledge of it, rebellion against the Lord. 504 00:38:20.240 --> 00:38:22.210 I'm going to do what I want to do. 505 00:38:22.820 --> 00:38:25.570 I'm going to treat people how I want to treat them. 506 00:38:26.020 --> 00:38:28.832 This is who I am going to. 507 00:38:28.886 --> 00:38:33.328 Be knowing raised in church, knowing the. 508 00:38:33.334 --> 00:38:34.500 Things of the Lord. 509 00:38:36.120 --> 00:38:42.790 And because of that, especially in a small town that I grew up in, people knew. 510 00:38:44.120 --> 00:38:45.828 Like, you didn't find out what I. 511 00:38:45.834 --> 00:38:47.284 Did and go, really? 512 00:38:47.402 --> 00:38:49.450 That guy never thought that. 513 00:38:51.100 --> 00:38:58.612 Two years before I got saved, though, there was a guy, he was a seminary student who came to our church to be a college intern for the summer. 514 00:38:58.676 --> 00:39:00.440 His name was Seth Stoddard. 515 00:39:01.660 --> 00:39:03.596 Seth came up to me one day. 516 00:39:03.778 --> 00:39:06.380 We bumped into each other somewhere in North Augusta. 517 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:10.776 He's like, hey, man, a group of guys are playing basketball on Thursday nights. 518 00:39:10.808 --> 00:39:11.950 You want to come play? 519 00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:13.804 Yeah. 520 00:39:13.842 --> 00:39:15.090 Where y'all playing at? 521 00:39:15.700 --> 00:39:17.280 We're playing at the church. 522 00:39:17.860 --> 00:39:19.568 Oh, that's different, right? 523 00:39:19.734 --> 00:39:21.312 Not where I really thought we'd play. 524 00:39:21.366 --> 00:39:23.476 But got to clean up some of. 525 00:39:23.478 --> 00:39:25.060 The things we talk about, I guess, right? 526 00:39:25.210 --> 00:39:26.820 Playing basketball in the church. 527 00:39:27.160 --> 00:39:28.500 Wouldn't play basketball. 528 00:39:29.080 --> 00:39:32.912 Two years, play basketball weekly. 529 00:39:33.056 --> 00:39:35.360 We'd get together, play basketball. 530 00:39:35.520 --> 00:39:37.156 There was never a Bible study. 531 00:39:37.338 --> 00:39:43.210 We never gathered around and opened up the Bible and had a conversation about God's word. 532 00:39:43.740 --> 00:39:54.270 But as a group of guys building relationships one another, I would listen to the things that they were talking about it became very quickly to the realization to me that everyone else in here is saved but me. 533 00:39:55.120 --> 00:39:56.604 And I thought I was the only. 534 00:39:56.642 --> 00:39:59.950 One who had figured that out, right? 535 00:40:01.600 --> 00:40:02.440 Built relationship. 536 00:40:02.530 --> 00:40:03.168 Built relationship. 537 00:40:03.254 --> 00:40:04.304 Built relationship. 538 00:40:04.502 --> 00:40:05.184 Hear things. 539 00:40:05.222 --> 00:40:06.384 They talk about the things of God. 540 00:40:06.422 --> 00:40:07.392 They pray for one another. 541 00:40:07.446 --> 00:40:11.810 They share, they challenge, they embrace and love me. 542 00:40:13.140 --> 00:40:16.784 About a year later, I meet another guy named Scott Jet. 543 00:40:16.912 --> 00:40:18.372 Coolest name ever, right? 544 00:40:18.506 --> 00:40:21.876 He's a swimmer with a last name Jet, right. 545 00:40:22.058 --> 00:40:27.428 He was on the 1996 Olympic swimming team, right? 546 00:40:27.594 --> 00:40:28.404 He comes in. 547 00:40:28.442 --> 00:40:29.496 He's doing some things with us. 548 00:40:29.518 --> 00:40:31.530 He likes to rock climb and do stuff like that. 549 00:40:31.900 --> 00:40:42.510 And he invited me one day to go whitewater rafton with a group of guys that come to find out was the group of guys that I played basketball with. 550 00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:46.204 Again, I think I figured this out. 551 00:40:46.242 --> 00:40:47.196 I don't think any of them have. 552 00:40:47.218 --> 00:40:49.180 I'm like, what a coincidence. 553 00:40:52.180 --> 00:41:04.960 On that trip, before that trip, everything that I knew fell apart. 554 00:41:05.860 --> 00:41:09.376 Everything that I knew, my lifestyle had. 555 00:41:09.398 --> 00:41:10.720 Brought me to a pit. 556 00:41:11.800 --> 00:41:14.870 Those who were around me I felt like had abandoned me. 557 00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:35.900 My world fell apart and I was just going to go rafting, and I didn't know what it was going to look like starting June 3, but I knew June 2 I could escape the troubles of this world and get out on a river. 558 00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:44.030 And on June 2, Jesus saved me, right? 559 00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:57.040 Because there was a group of guys who thought about more than basketball but knew a guy that needed Jesus and they could connect with him with basketball. 560 00:41:58.040 --> 00:42:04.436 There was a guy who knew about water sports and knew that there was. 561 00:42:04.458 --> 00:42:09.248 This guy that connect with that, and he invited him. 562 00:42:09.434 --> 00:42:12.200 And what the Lord did in their. 563 00:42:12.270 --> 00:42:22.200 Obedience was reveal Himself to me and capture my heart so I could surrender my life to the Lord. 564 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:28.620 That's missional discipleship. 565 00:42:30.240 --> 00:42:32.510 It's not a class to come to. 566 00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:35.810 It's not a debate to get into. 567 00:42:36.660 --> 00:42:49.572 It's a moment where we can look at the things of this world and our life and how can we press forward into engaging those who don't know. 568 00:42:49.626 --> 00:42:52.550 Jesus into a relationship with him. 569 00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:54.870 But we've got to go. 570 00:42:55.240 --> 00:42:57.910 We've got to share, right? 571 00:42:59.260 --> 00:43:02.330 So we're going to be focusing more. 572 00:43:03.020 --> 00:43:09.080 On providing missional discipleship opportunities for us as a church. 573 00:43:09.980 --> 00:43:13.996 Our hope is with everything that we catch this. 574 00:43:14.098 --> 00:43:21.790 No one told that group of guys to go start a basketball game and invite the most lost person they know. 575 00:43:22.160 --> 00:43:28.048 No one told them to do that, but it was born in them through the gospel, is that this is what. 576 00:43:28.134 --> 00:43:31.890 This looked like, and so this is what they did. 577 00:43:32.500 --> 00:43:38.784 But what we want to do is this becomes more of who we are because here's what we realize, and I take ownership of this. 578 00:43:38.902 --> 00:43:41.172 We say, go engage with lost people. 579 00:43:41.226 --> 00:43:42.704 Go and share the gospel. 580 00:43:42.752 --> 00:43:44.980 And there's so many of you who want to do that. 581 00:43:45.050 --> 00:43:47.350 But your answer is, but I don't know how. 582 00:43:47.720 --> 00:43:50.244 And we have let me stop saying we. 583 00:43:50.282 --> 00:43:54.730 I have done a poor job of saying this is how we do this. 584 00:43:55.900 --> 00:43:59.000 And so I don't want to do a poor job of doing that anymore. 585 00:43:59.740 --> 00:44:13.676 And so this is how we are going to do this, so that we embrace this as a church, so that we can press forward through this in who we are as missionaries, whether it's Afghanistan or the other side of the. 586 00:44:13.698 --> 00:44:17.184 Road, is what can we do to. 587 00:44:17.222 --> 00:44:22.210 See this so in how God works? 588 00:44:23.300 --> 00:44:28.420 I thought as we get ready for our studies, this will be our focus of studies. 589 00:44:29.160 --> 00:44:35.750 And then when January comes, which I know it's 138 degrees today, but I promise it's not far away, all right? 590 00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:43.668 As January approaches, we're going to take a greater emphasis and we are on Missional Discipleship. 591 00:44:43.764 --> 00:44:50.344 And then I'm sitting there in my seat like I do every Sunday, right there, row one. 592 00:44:50.382 --> 00:44:51.272 Come sit with us sometimes. 593 00:44:51.326 --> 00:44:52.156 We'd love to have you. 594 00:44:52.178 --> 00:44:52.910 All right. 595 00:44:53.760 --> 00:45:01.740 And this announcement for Mankamp came up and I was like, bo, you're stupid. 596 00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:03.580 You're stupid. 597 00:45:04.260 --> 00:45:07.810 Because here's missional discipleship that's happening. 598 00:45:08.500 --> 00:45:10.044 So what missional discipleship. 599 00:45:10.092 --> 00:45:17.980 Is it's intentional gathering that meets the need for a group of people both lost and saved? 600 00:45:18.140 --> 00:45:19.876 It's what mancamp does. 601 00:45:20.058 --> 00:45:27.030 It provides guys with an opportunity to come together to do the things that they do right. 602 00:45:28.120 --> 00:45:32.680 And it's something that meets the need for both the lost and the saved. 603 00:45:33.420 --> 00:45:41.012 These gatherings that we will provide can either be a one time once a year gathering or it can be consistent gatherings. 604 00:45:41.076 --> 00:45:43.164 They're going to vary with what they look like. 605 00:45:43.202 --> 00:45:44.636 We're talking about one now that will. 606 00:45:44.658 --> 00:45:49.310 Meet monthly, whereas we're talking about this one that will meet once a year. 607 00:45:50.560 --> 00:45:53.500 What it does, it allows us, the. 608 00:45:53.570 --> 00:46:01.920 Church, to meet the need of those in our world while also giving us. 609 00:46:01.990 --> 00:46:05.344 The church, the opportunity to share the. 610 00:46:05.382 --> 00:46:09.104 Gospel and minister to everyone who's there. 611 00:46:09.222 --> 00:46:11.940 And I promise it's not a bait and switch. 612 00:46:13.160 --> 00:46:23.850 We're going to provide what we say we're going to provide and build into the conversation and the narrative of what we're doing, the opportunities to talk about the truth of Christ with everyone who's there. 613 00:46:24.780 --> 00:46:45.792 And then what it does, it allows you, as you're learning, it allows you as you're getting more questions answered, it allows you who's terrified to go over and have a full blown conversation and share the gospel with somebody who doesn't know Christ. 614 00:46:45.926 --> 00:46:48.224 Here's what it allows you to do. 615 00:46:48.342 --> 00:46:50.050 Just invite them. 616 00:46:50.980 --> 00:46:52.210 Invite them. 617 00:46:53.540 --> 00:46:59.430 Hey, man, my church is doing this. 618 00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:03.750 And I know that you're interested in this. 619 00:47:04.680 --> 00:47:06.630 I'm going to this. 620 00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:10.490 Would you like to go to this with me? 621 00:47:12.300 --> 00:47:14.120 Here's what I'll tell you about Seth. 622 00:47:14.940 --> 00:47:28.268 Before Seth invited me to play basketball, he had repeatedly invited me to Bible study, which was on Friday night, which for a lost person who's 21 at the time, was the worst night that. 623 00:47:28.274 --> 00:47:30.270 You could invite me to a Bible study. 624 00:47:32.560 --> 00:47:36.770 And he changed his approach, right. 625 00:47:37.940 --> 00:47:49.030 It allows you to invite someone who's far from the Lord to do something that they're going to be excited about. 626 00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:57.844 And then in that, we create these environments where it may be just something as simple as hey. 627 00:47:57.882 --> 00:48:03.968 As we've done this activity together, if you've got something you'd like for us to pray for you about, we'd love. 628 00:48:03.994 --> 00:48:04.904 For you to write it on this. 629 00:48:04.942 --> 00:48:06.632 Card and then leave it here. 630 00:48:06.766 --> 00:48:08.730 And then we're going to pray for you this week. 631 00:48:09.500 --> 00:48:13.630 And then here's what that gives us an opportunity to do. 632 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:19.230 Two weeks later, pick up the phone, dial the number. 633 00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:21.996 Hey, I see where you were part. 634 00:48:22.018 --> 00:48:26.388 Of this event that we did and you left this prayer request. 635 00:48:26.424 --> 00:48:30.320 I want you to know that I've been praying for you every day for what you've shared. 636 00:48:31.140 --> 00:48:34.050 Can I just ask you how's that going? 637 00:48:35.300 --> 00:48:43.940 And now what we've done is we've bridged the gap and given us an opportunity to talk to them about Christ. 638 00:48:44.090 --> 00:48:45.940 So here's the question for you. 639 00:48:46.090 --> 00:48:48.150 What's next for you? 640 00:48:49.100 --> 00:48:50.650 What's next for you? 641 00:48:51.020 --> 00:48:56.170 Let's put the circle back up on the screen for just a second. 642 00:48:57.980 --> 00:49:02.350 We've asked you to take a next step. 643 00:49:03.520 --> 00:49:09.548 We want to take a bold next step in following Jesus and over the. 644 00:49:09.554 --> 00:49:11.964 Last few weeks we've laid that out. 645 00:49:12.162 --> 00:49:18.080 Relational discipleship, theological discipleship, missional discipleship. 646 00:49:18.580 --> 00:49:20.704 Well, here's what I'm going to ask you to do. 647 00:49:20.902 --> 00:49:24.770 Number one, are you engaged in any of this? 648 00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:33.056 Are you connected in any aspect within this in the church? 649 00:49:33.248 --> 00:49:38.390 And if the answer is no, okay, it's okay, it's okay. 650 00:49:39.160 --> 00:49:44.276 We want to invite you to take a step and so maybe for you, you're like, no. 651 00:49:44.298 --> 00:49:46.232 I really want deep relationships with those. 652 00:49:46.286 --> 00:49:50.616 People that I attend church with and grow in my relationship with them as I grow in my relationship with Christ. 653 00:49:50.718 --> 00:49:52.216 Then we want to help connect you. 654 00:49:52.238 --> 00:49:55.096 In relational discipleship if you're like. 655 00:49:55.118 --> 00:49:57.416 Man, I'm not in anything but like. 656 00:49:57.438 --> 00:50:06.604 Man, I read my Bible or I want to read my Bible, but I just don't really understand the things of the Bible and so I just want to learn more about what the Bible teaches and let that be the focus. 657 00:50:06.642 --> 00:50:07.928 Then we'd love for you to join. 658 00:50:07.944 --> 00:50:10.960 Us on the theological discipleship. 659 00:50:11.780 --> 00:50:16.716 Maybe you're like, man, I'm just thinking through thinking through, thinking through with all of these things and man, this missional. 660 00:50:16.748 --> 00:50:18.796 Discipleship and while all the pieces haven't. 661 00:50:18.828 --> 00:50:20.116 Come out yet, you're like, that's where. 662 00:50:20.138 --> 00:50:22.710 I want to land and go, great, great. 663 00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:27.556 Man we're excited and want to celebrate what the Lord's doing as you take. 664 00:50:27.578 --> 00:50:29.860 That step to find that path. 665 00:50:30.380 --> 00:50:35.320 But you'll notice there's like these triangles for me as I thought through this, those are arrows. 666 00:50:38.990 --> 00:50:45.754 And so maybe you're sitting here today and you're like, man, I've been a part of a small group. 667 00:50:45.792 --> 00:50:46.794 I've been a part of the men's study. 668 00:50:46.832 --> 00:50:48.126 I'm a part of a women's study. 669 00:50:48.228 --> 00:50:49.262 And we're doing these things. 670 00:50:49.316 --> 00:50:52.622 I'm relationally involved and engaged in doing this. 671 00:50:52.676 --> 00:50:53.902 And so that's where I am. 672 00:50:53.956 --> 00:50:55.946 So I'm good right here's. 673 00:50:55.978 --> 00:50:59.220 What we want to challenge you with this morning is take another step. 674 00:51:00.070 --> 00:51:02.020 You don't leave that behind. 675 00:51:03.990 --> 00:51:06.274 You don't sign away from that. 676 00:51:06.472 --> 00:51:09.218 But what would it look like for you to say, you know what? 677 00:51:09.304 --> 00:51:20.054 While I continue in this, I want to take and also build into that this theological study so that I can do this or I want to build in in my small group. 678 00:51:20.092 --> 00:51:28.090 I'm thinking like these three guys that I know right now that would come to go to man camp with me in October. 679 00:51:29.150 --> 00:51:33.206 And so I'm going to take that step and do that here's. 680 00:51:33.238 --> 00:51:41.962 What we want you to do is to look, to evaluate, and to see so that when you can take a step back and I know life gets busy. 681 00:51:42.026 --> 00:51:43.934 I know there's all of these things that have gone on. 682 00:51:43.972 --> 00:51:47.614 And so if you're looking at this like, man, I can only do one great. 683 00:51:47.732 --> 00:51:49.490 Do what God tells you to do. 684 00:51:49.560 --> 00:51:51.700 We're not trying to sell you on a program. 685 00:51:52.870 --> 00:51:56.500 We're trying to help see that this is what the Lord's doing. 686 00:51:57.110 --> 00:52:02.102 This is what we see in Scripture, and we have the opportunity to be a part of that. 687 00:52:02.156 --> 00:52:03.478 And we want to challenge you to. 688 00:52:03.484 --> 00:52:04.520 Do it with me. 689 00:52:14.830 --> 00:52:16.410 After I got saved. 690 00:52:18.990 --> 00:52:19.738 I waited a. 691 00:52:19.744 --> 00:52:23.900 Week before I told anyone because I didn't think they'd believe me. 692 00:52:26.610 --> 00:52:28.526 First person I told wept like a. 693 00:52:28.548 --> 00:52:32.080 Baby and told me she'd been praying for me for years. 694 00:52:35.170 --> 00:52:40.100 When I got saved, I had a group of people who invited me to their men's group. 695 00:52:41.430 --> 00:52:47.380 We sat down and we talked about what it meant to be a man living for the kingdom of God. 696 00:52:49.270 --> 00:52:57.000 Ironically enough, I had a group of high schoolers, which seemed a little deflating at the time, but was really good. 697 00:52:58.170 --> 00:53:02.562 And they invited me to come to their early 06:00 a.m. 698 00:53:02.636 --> 00:53:04.620 High school guy Bible study. 699 00:53:05.630 --> 00:53:07.260 I was impressed by that. 700 00:53:10.030 --> 00:53:27.810 And we went and they taught me the deep truths of Scripture and theological discipleship and then began to try to figure out who's the person I need to invite to play basketball. 701 00:53:30.150 --> 00:53:38.980 And so what we see from Acts two is this fully engaged discipleship process. 702 00:53:40.490 --> 00:53:43.000 And I don't know where you are on it. 703 00:53:43.690 --> 00:53:46.486 I know where I am, all right. 704 00:53:46.668 --> 00:53:48.520 And I'm ready to take another step. 705 00:53:50.170 --> 00:53:51.160 I am. 706 00:53:51.870 --> 00:53:54.140 And I want to challenge you to take one with me. 707 00:53:54.750 --> 00:53:56.010 Would you pray? 708 00:53:57.230 --> 00:53:58.794 God, thank you so much for this. 709 00:53:58.832 --> 00:54:12.554 Time, lord, my prayer, Lord, this is not me may it may just resound in our hearts. 710 00:54:12.602 --> 00:54:17.374 This is not me saying, you guys are wrong and you've been doing it wrong. 711 00:54:17.492 --> 00:54:21.700 And I've figured it out and this is what you need to go do. 712 00:54:22.710 --> 00:54:26.226 But Lord, this is Me that in the kindness and the grace of Your. 713 00:54:26.248 --> 00:54:31.154 Holy Spirit opening and teaching and revealing. 714 00:54:31.202 --> 00:54:46.742 To Me the truth of what we see in Scripture, that, Lord, we've got when we look out into our world, it's a group of people who are hurt and harassed. 715 00:54:46.886 --> 00:54:49.850 They've been torn and discarded. 716 00:54:50.910 --> 00:54:53.610 They feel like trash. 717 00:54:56.370 --> 00:55:01.040 And Lord, in their lostness, they've embraced it. 718 00:55:03.010 --> 00:55:10.210 And our job is not to look at them and cast judgment. 719 00:55:11.270 --> 00:55:17.810 Our responsibility, our calling is to look on them and be compassionate. 720 00:55:19.450 --> 00:55:27.346 Our call is to go and be the laborer in the field, Lord, the harvest. 721 00:55:27.458 --> 00:55:30.630 You say the harvest is plentiful. 722 00:55:31.290 --> 00:55:40.038 And in a world, Lord, where the church is declining rapidly in what we know, you say the harvest is plentiful. 723 00:55:40.134 --> 00:55:42.938 The problem isn't with the harvest, God. 724 00:55:43.024 --> 00:55:44.890 The problem is with the Church. 725 00:55:45.890 --> 00:55:47.630 And we've stopped. 726 00:55:49.090 --> 00:55:52.590 We've stopped going and harvesting fruit. 727 00:55:53.410 --> 00:55:58.058 And so we're declining not because you're declining. 728 00:55:58.234 --> 00:56:01.250 We're declining because we are declining. 729 00:56:01.670 --> 00:56:03.490 And so, Lord, may we go. 730 00:56:03.640 --> 00:56:05.326 May we go make disciples. 731 00:56:05.438 --> 00:56:08.226 May we engage in relationship with one another. 732 00:56:08.328 --> 00:56:10.830 May we carry one another's burdens. 733 00:56:10.910 --> 00:56:14.082 May we share the depths and the hurt of our souls. 734 00:56:14.146 --> 00:56:34.306 May we have a place where we can talk about the struggles in our marriage, the struggle in our identities, the struggle with our kids, the struggles with our jobs when we talk about the struggles of our work and be surrounded by a group of men and women who love you and who love us and point us to the truth of scriptures. 735 00:56:34.438 --> 00:56:42.750 And Lord, do what your word says to carry our burdens with us so we don't have to carry them alone. 736 00:56:44.450 --> 00:56:49.410 And so, Lord, I thank you for giving us relational discipleship. 737 00:56:52.390 --> 00:57:03.800 Lord, can we be a people who acknowledges that Your Word was breathed out, is the very breath of God? 738 00:57:07.690 --> 00:57:19.500 And it's profitable, it's beneficial, it's good, and it's sufficient for everything that You've called us to do. 739 00:57:21.070 --> 00:57:22.586 And Lord, we do live in a. 740 00:57:22.608 --> 00:57:27.600 World that causes us to question what we believe. 741 00:57:28.610 --> 00:57:31.600 And Lord, we must know what we believe. 742 00:57:32.850 --> 00:57:42.690 We must know who you are in the teaching of Your Word, or we will be like those who have been led astray. 743 00:57:46.550 --> 00:57:48.386 But, Lord, what we don't want to. 744 00:57:48.408 --> 00:57:48.980 Do. 745 00:57:51.530 --> 00:57:55.894 Is build a place where we. 746 00:57:55.932 --> 00:58:05.660 Gather and talk about how great it is to be saved while there's a world dying and lost around us. 747 00:58:07.310 --> 00:58:12.170 Lord, I repent before my church. 748 00:58:13.230 --> 00:58:21.374 Lord, I repent before you that I have not done what I need to. 749 00:58:21.412 --> 00:58:30.450 Do to help us go to be mobilized, to share the Gospel. 750 00:58:32.310 --> 00:58:39.874 And Lord, in your kindness and your compassion and your grace that you extend me, Lord, I thank you for that. 751 00:58:39.912 --> 00:58:41.510 I am not deserving. 752 00:58:42.730 --> 00:58:52.714 But, Lord, may my sin no longer stand in our way because you're somebody that needs to be asked to play. 753 00:58:52.752 --> 00:58:53.610 Basketball. 754 00:58:56.430 --> 00:59:00.570 There'S somebody that needs to be asked to a cup of coffee. 755 00:59:01.630 --> 00:59:09.520 There's somebody that needs to be asked to come to a playground and bring their kids so they can sit around and talk while their kids play. 756 00:59:10.290 --> 00:59:11.822 There's somebody that needs to be asked. 757 00:59:11.876 --> 00:59:14.030 To come and go fishing. 758 00:59:14.770 --> 00:59:17.540 There's somebody that needs to be asked to do something. 759 00:59:18.070 --> 00:59:24.740 And in that it's more than the activity, but it's the creator of the world that is the focus. 760 00:59:26.550 --> 00:59:29.314 And Lord, may we go and do. 761 00:59:29.352 --> 00:59:41.990 That, god, may we take another bold next step in following Jesus. 762 00:59:44.030 --> 00:59:45.878 And it's in his name I pray. 763 00:59:46.054 --> 00:59:46.970 Amen. 764 00:59:51.150 --> 00:59:55.606 Thanks again for listening and be sure to check back next week for another episode. 765 00:59:55.718 --> 01:00:03.430 In the meantime, you can visit us@willowridgechurch.org or by searching for Willowridge Church on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.