Well welcome, we are glad that you are here in the Prescott location,
Prescott Valley Park Collective. We are happy to be journeying alongside you as
well and so welcome to you as we walk together as a family in many places that
includes Paul and Baghdad. Welcome to you guys today, Paul and I hear that you're
having a Super Bowl party. We'll talk about that in a minute but welcome to you
and also anyone in the online family, McGinnis family, I think I'm saying that
right but welcome to you. I saw that you guys were there. Welcome to you from our
Heights Fam and that you're a part of that we get to journey alongside and
along with that Elizabeth she says that she is in the snowy woods of Wisconsin
today. So we love that you're with us, we're glad we're not with you in person.
So just saying but welcome wherever you are, however you got here, welcome, we're
glad that we get to do this together. One of the things I love is that we are
family. We don't choose that, God chooses that for us. He's the one that says we are
in family and so as a family we just get to journey alongside all seasons of life,
all moments of life. There's a big one coming today apparently. There's two
teams that nobody cares about and they're gonna they're gonna meet, oh sorry
Walt you know maybe you care, you care but so let's just get it out of the way
chiefs fans where are you? I was alright. Eagles fans where are you? If you're in the
chat just write I don't care or Eagles or Chiefs whatever it is. If you don't
care about football where are you at? Okay you realize that they're gonna be the
happiest people at the end of the day because what they did is they got to show
up to a party, eat a whole bunch of good food and they don't care who wins or
loses. It's great they go home and they're content right like so some of you
may be thinking the green is a nod to the Eagles. Truth be told they changed my
cast this week and it's the only one I can get over or not the only one but one
of the few I can get over my cast so that's why we're in green today but
here's the thing right like Kansas City cheats does that sound like right?
We'll see who paid the refs we'll see we'll see we'll see fourth quarter last
minute that holding call right that everybody else goes I don't know if
that was or not and some refs like yes it was but whatever you whatever
side you're on whether you know whether your chiefs are not whether your
chiefs are not or Eagles like just just have fun just have fun I know for me the
win is the party the win is the party today my grandson gets to be there
there's lots of food lots of friends that we call family and that's what we're
gonna do so there you go whatever you do have fun hopefully this is fun for you
today hopefully that as we journey together there's a piece of this that
you go okay this fits with us moving as a family right like like one of the
things that's this beautiful as we get to do these collections where we anchor
into a conversation if you were here last week you know that we started the
critical journey what I need you to know about the critical journey it is not
ours as a church it is not mine we did not create it it is a book that we're
taking it from you just need to know something that while we look at this
this is the book and we use other resources to help us understand what it
is to be on this journey and so the critical journey is a way of doing that
and so the idea behind the critical journey is that there is a way that God
created you and shaped your soul that as a human you develop spiritually and so
this is true of every single person on the planet and you can go into different
religions different followings and what you'll find is that those that people in
different spaces that we are all formed in the same stages now I don't love the
word stage stage feels to me like you go from this one to that one to that one
life is never that clean right there's it there's I like to refer to it more
like a bird's nest is what and we'll talk about that in weeks to come where you
go and you shore up another part of the nest is what you're doing but you have a
home base so if you think of a stage is a home base and what you do from a home
base is you launch outward and so last week if you were here I mean getting to
see the Holy Spirit go to work is amazing but to get to see it in every single
service across every location it's just a gift right it's something we should
never get old of seeing Jesus save people never gets old agreed right like
that's something we should celebrate we should be for we should we should lean
into and the hope is the hope is that what happens within the spiritual journey
there has to be an awakening there has to be a moment where somebody has
recognition of God in our case there has to be a moment when you see Jesus as
Savior of your soul there has to be a moment when you trust him and last week
we talked about that that's stage one is recognition of God now something
naturally happens within stage one as you recognize okay I understand who Jesus
is you begin to live in that you begin to enjoy that you begin to understand
wait there's way more to this than I originally thought and so it creates this
need in you where you begin to go there's stuff I got to learn because when I
look at you you know Jesus in a way that I don't know Jesus and so I want to I
want to know what that is right like or you watch somebody worship in this
place and you go they worship different I want to know what it is in them that how
they stepped into that with Jesus and so the idea is that as we continue over the
weeks we're building the scaffold right and the idea of a scaffold is that you've
got to have your first platform in place and that platform now for some of you is
the recognition of God that you have a moment where you go I know I stepped in
the relationship I know I gave my life to Jesus and you have that scaffold so to
speak in place now you'll spend a lot of your life going back and reassuring and
rebuilding up that piece of that scaffold but what happens is you move on you
move forward you begin to build the scaffold further to prepare for stage
two and stage two is wrapped around this idea of life of discipleship life of
discipleship right that you enter into this moment where you go okay there's
more to this and I need a place to belong those are two of the driving
factors around it we see this pattern lived out in the life of Jesus and
specifically in Luke chapter 5 and verse 1 it says this on one day as Jesus was
standing by the lake of Genesereth the people were crowding around him and
listening to the word of God he saw at the waters edge two boats left there by
the fishermen who were washing their nets he got into one of the boats the
one belonging to Simon and asked him to put out a little from shore then he sat
down in the boat and taught the people from the boat when he had finished
speaking he said to Simon put out into the deep water and let down your nets
for catch Simon answered master we've worked hard all night and they haven't
caught anything but because you say so I will let down the nets when they had
done so they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break so
they signaled to their partners in the other boats to come help them and they
came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink when when Simon
Peter saw this he fell at Jesus's knees and said go away from me Lord I am a
sinful man and so there's this moment there's a story that we're told that
that for the for the early disciples their meeting of Jesus was hey we've been
out all night working we've caught no fish which was for them that's the
business they're in so not catching fish is bad for their business bad for
what's happening in life so they come back and you can imagine there's a
there's an element of that like I'm discouraged and in their discouragement
they're asked to push out by this rabbi this teacher so which they do so he
didn't goes tell tells them go out and fish again which for them would have
been annoying as it would be for us there would be a moment of this where
you're like man we've already done this you're not a fisherman you're telling us
to do this they do it and they catch so many fish that there's this moment that
if we go back to last week there is a recognition of God that takes place in
their life that there's this moment where where Simon says that you got to get
away from me because I realized how different you are than I am Lord I'm a
sinful man you you got to go and so so he uses the phrase Lord and he uses he
uses a recognition of who he is and who Jesus is and so there's this
recognition of God moment and then look what happens next verse 9 for he and
all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken and so
were James and John the son's disability Simon's partners then Jesus said to them
don't be afraid from now on you will fish for people so they pulled up their
boats up on shore left everything and followed him if you turn over to mark
chapter 1 it's the same story found in verse 16 it says as Jesus walked beside
the Sea of Galilee he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting and edded to the
lake for they were fishermen come what's that next word follow me so so in this
one we know from the other story there's recognition of God that takes place and
then Jesus tells him and gives him an invitation after that in this story what
we get is very clear you have this language of come which is an invitation
right come follow me right and so so the idea is come to me which if we go back
to last week the moment when you give your life to Jesus is you going I am
coming to you to be my Savior and at some point like we were talking about last
week there's a point when you step in and go hey I'm giving you my life as Lord
you need control of my life and what happens in this moment is you have
recognition of God but then you have an instant invitation into the life of
discipleship where Jesus goes come follow me now to us there's significance
around this when you put it in the context of the original story in the
original culture because in that culture you would have a rabbi a teacher and
that rabbi wouldn't just go up to anybody and say hey come follow me in
fact you couldn't choose your rabbi the rabbi had to choose you and so in this
context Jesus is coming to these fishermen that's already mind-blowing
because they're not students of religion he comes to them and he says come it's
an invitation follow me it's an invitation to be a disciple it's an
invitation into the life of a disciple it's an invitation to apprentice under
Jesus and so what you have in this moment is you have an invitation this
place now if I gave you an invitation today to the Super Bowl party I'm going
to right so I handed every single one of you an invitation and said you got to
come to the Super Bowl party who has the power of choice you do right you have
the power of choice I invited you but whether you say yes or no that's
entirely up to you this is how the life of discipleship works there is a
commitment that has to come from you and can only come from you only you last
week can go God I give you my life or at some point in your life there's only
you that can go I need you to be my savior right when it comes to the life
of discipleship only you only you can be the one to accept and go I am going to
commit to follow Jesus with my life I'm going to commit to be a disciple of
Jesus now here here's the problem around church world with this right like we
start talking about this life of discipleship depending on how long you've
been around church depending on what your background is here's what it often
looks like okay you want to be a disciple you got to go take this class right go
take this class so 101 on religion take 202 oh one on who Jesus is 301 on
creation right and all of a sudden you go and you just start learning all these
classes right and at some point the thought process is you get done with
all this study you get to the end and tada you're a disciple no you're just
really smart you'll learn the whole bunch of stuff the idea of being a
disciple of Jesus is that it was actually it's in your life it's not how much you
know it's how much you live and so the idea of being a disciple is that that
you in those days that if you suggest to Jesus you were gonna follow Jesus
closely enough that the very dust from his feet would kick up and you would get
the dust of the rabbi the dust of the person that you were following would
cover you you were that closely following this person the idea is this
that even in the model that Jesus gave it goes from person to person it was an
invitation to personally follow another person why because the intent was it was
always transferred your learning would be done from person to person and
somewhere along the way we eliminated relationship and we went to just take
these courses and and when you look at this notice notice what else happens
because you can get stuck right I took the courses right therefore I am notice
what the point of being a disciple was verse 17 come follow me Jesus said and
I will send you out to fish for people so there's a come follow me and I will
send so from the very get-go the life of discipleship the the intent of
discipleship is this you have those who are committing to there they're saying
yes I will follow you because I need to learn and I need to belong you think
about it in Jesus's context he's going come follow me and I'll teach you but he
also put them what in a group of people the idea of being in a group of people
is so central to your learning that's why last week when we were talking about
it that that is so central that life groups that if you're in a life group
that you're talking about this critical journey that you're identifying your
home base why because if I can identify my home base I can take ownership of my
maturing you realize it's nobody else's responsibility but yours to grow to be
like Jesus right too many times people like I left that church they weren't
doing this this this this this I left that church they weren't giving me what
I needed I left that shirt no no no hang on the way this was intended is that you
would spend time in a posture of learning in a commitment to learn and how is that
learning from another person but the onus is on you to go I need that right and
then and then what happens you learn you go through this learning process of the
life of discipleship you belong and then what happens you move outward what you
have been given you give away and that's what Jesus intended from the very
start what you have been given you will give away so much so that he gets to the
end of it right before he's gone to the cross he's about to ascend to heaven so
the resurrected Jesus talking to his disciples what does he tell them I need
you to go and make what make disciples go and help people apprentice to Jesus
go and help people live a life of discipleship go and help them become
disciples how do you do that teach them to observe everything I commanded you
to do and so here's what's fascinating right you look at the early church Acts
chapter 2 and verse 42 Acts chapter 2 the early church gets together and it says
they the early church devoted devoted themselves to the apostles teaching to
the fellowship to the breaking of bread and to prayer they devoted themselves
what was the commitment of the disciples to take what they've been given and give
it away how do we know they did that because now there's a whole group of
people and what are they doing they are devoting themselves to what the
apostles teaching they're devoting themselves to following them now that
that idea of devoted is that they were showing up we also know from this passage
they showed up daily in homes together why because they were so committed I
would say this about you that if you're not in a life group and you're not
connected to another group like a Bible study or something within women's and
men's ministry I would encourage you to do this get coffee with somebody this
week and sit with them and talk about this it has to be transferred from person
to person Paul understood this so much that when Paul's writing to the church
here's what he says 1 Corinthians 11 verse 1 follow my example so Paul's
going follow my example as I follow the example of Christ follow my example Paul's
going I'm giving it away there's that word follow again it's an invitation into
you and so here's here's a kind of a caution in this whole stage to home base
that if you're going I need to learn I need to follow somebody right can I
just give you a caution make sure the person that you choose to follow looks
like Jesus make sure that the person you follow is actually following Jesus we
we talked about this thought about this and and what I would love to do is just
give you a picture of what this looks like there's a gift to our church and
his name is pastor Bob and often you hear Bob and I got a joke coming I don't
have a joke coming Bob is an absolute gift to my life and to this church when
you talk about this of pouring your life into somebody else of taking what you
have been given by Jesus and in relationship giving it away to somebody
else there is no one else that has been more influential in my life of what
discipleship looks like than our very own pastor Bob and so what I would love
you to do both here part collective online lose your minds for pastor Bob and
Abe this morning please gentlemen good morning how are we you're so nice to me
you can pay me later it's fine Abe you doing okay singing and speaking how is
my little hyped up I've had a okay too much Celsius so I'm trying to bring it
back down control my breath yeah so here's where I love to start Bob for you
I've watched this pattern in your life of giving away but that had to start
somewhere for you there had to be a moment where you were invited to come
follow and so what did that look like for me I came to Christ I became a
Christian on my 18th birthday so it's easy to remember but the couple that led
me to Christ moved within the month after I accepted Christ so they plugged me
into a church but I didn't know anybody I met like a couple people but I would
sit in the back row and before the pastor would say amen I was out you know
and I was living a lifestyle very contrary to what God would want I was
partying on the weekends and doing all that stuff and then I'd go to church on
Sunday and do all that and this was up in Cleveland and I was a mailman
and there was a guy on my route that attended this church and I remember the
time he's an older guy but he came out one Saturday goes if you ever needed
anything here's my business card and I'm like yeah I'll get right on it you know
so put it away and then continue to live a wild lifestyle while I was saying I
was a Christian and so one night I was in downtown Cleveland on a Friday night
and I thought you know what I know if I die right now I'd go to heaven so I'm
gonna kill myself on the way home so I thought I'll get the car up to a hundred
and hit a pole and I thought well the people that I was partying with would
be like this is gonna happen sooner or later and my Christian the couple of
people that knew me at church would be like always in a better place so I got
the car up to a hundred I was on the freeway and all sudden I just started
crying so I pulled the car over and I'm parked on the side of the road and I'm
sitting there and all sudden the Holy Spirit just laid down my heart that
business card in your pocket you got to call this guy so I didn't have cell
phones back then so I went to the nearest phone booth and I called was that
phone booth out of curiosity so funny so it was like two in the morning and I
call this and he's an attorney for LTB steals season business like but I call
him up I go hey I don't know if you remember me from church who's no I
remember you I go well I am a Christian but I'm not living this out and I said
I can't do this anymore live in two lives and he said well come on over which I
think it's funny now that he had me drive 20 minutes drunk but I got to his
house and his wife got up they made me coffee and they said so do you really
want to follow Christ I said well this was gonna be my last night so he said
well I will need you twice a week he said my wife will make you dinner but he
said we're gonna do Bible study together we're gonna do life together we're gonna
walk this out and so he took me under his wing and it was two years of intense
twice a week Bible studies with him which is amazing yeah he made me
memorize verses and because he's very structured if I did one word wrong he'd
make me write it 50 times and he told me and I go well you got the right idea he
goes well Satan tried to put scripture to and I'm okay well I'll fix it which
was fun if you know Bob and know his personality that's perfect for you
that's that's what you needed so from that moment what did it what did it look
like and so so you spent time with him kind of what what happened after that
what that looked like he would challenge me on different things which was
really good and at the time I could never be in front of people at all so I'm
in one time he said you're gonna meet me downtown Cleveland at this one office
building and I said yeah I'll be down there so I go down and it was a crowd as
big as this if not bigger and he said I want you to give your testimony to these
people and I remember just freaking out but he would challenge me in different
areas of my walk to make me grow and I was telling in the last service it was
funny to meet John and I went to a conference in Cortal Lane a couple years
ago and we're sitting there and people would ask questions to the main speaker
and the one guy stood up and he introduced himself said I'm so-and-so
and I'm part of the Cleveland Businessmen's Association blah blah blah and I'm
like what do you think and I didn't say anything to John I go up to the guy after
I go hey you're from Cleveland do you know Don Hall he goes Don Hall changed my
life I'm not gonna mind too you know it was crazy yeah I love that sometimes the
availability that God asks of you is 2 a.m. with a drunk guy on the phone but
okay so so within that then obviously we're years and years from that how do
you end up sitting with Abe today what what's that was it was funny you know
when God lays someone on your heart so the worship team was back at that sound
booth one day and I walked by and it's like I say something to him so talking
to Caleb and the rest of my said hey I guess I gotta talk to him I said Abe I'm
Bob Bobo I'm one of the pastors here and kind of what the guy threw out to me so
I'm like if you ever need anything you just give me a call I said those guys
have my number so Abe what in the world made you call Bob so I heard Bob was
really struggling I'm kidding I'm kidding well it took three months but what
really made me reach out to Bob was I was trying to try to connect with other
people and the conversation we had back there in front of that sound booth some
of the things that Bob was sharing with me that he was able to go through and
get past sounded a little similar to some of the things that I was struggling
with in that moment so I got to a point where I was just I can't do this just
like you how you said like I can't keep living this double life like something's
got to give and just something about those muscles and that smile really
really drew me towards them and so so what's it been like so you you call him
and then what what is that stepping into the life of the disciple what does that
look like with Bob so you hear discipleship and you want to just
immediately go to okay like we're gonna just meet up once a week and we're gonna
go over some scriptures and good luck see you next week like no Bob and Sherry
really opened up their home opened up their arms and made me feel like family
and that's that's really what changed my mind about this whole discipleship
process was it's not you're just you're not just teaching somebody how to how to
live life but you're teaching them how to walk with Christ you're bringing them
into your home I mean we spent Thanksgiving Christmas together so we
really developed a relationship just outside of discipleship and it's it's
been a blessing when you hear Paul in the Bible talk to Timothy or Titus he
always says my son in the faith and so really is and we sit we talk about family
here but I think when you get in that kind of relationship it's not just a
Bible said we really are family so much so that do you know what he did this is
really bad we don't need to go there it's when the forge came out it's a movie
about discipleship I had to miss one of our meetings and I said hey here's ten
dollars you need to go see the forge we're gonna talk about it next week when
we get together so he comes the next week and we talked about it and I'm
probably not supposed to say this but he cried at the movie and he told me you
know and all this well then that's like six months ago and he tells me last
month he goes by the way I got the movie for free and I just kept the ten
dollars it's like one of my own biological kids right
oh man I also understand that the term poppa Bob is is part of it which again
speaks to this is more than just imparting knowledge right you are
helping somebody navigate how to look and live and love like Jesus and it's
got to come from you and so I love within your guys's journey that there there is
the Christmas there is the Thanksgiving there is the the walking along the
moments to make you family and so Abe on your side what what are some things
you've enjoyed what maybe has surprised you in this journey yeah before I answer
that question I do call him Papa Bob okay but he he's got a nickname for me
you want me to tell him he calls the fear
I call him baby him he calls me baby him and I blush every single time no but
one of my favorite moments is really just going to his house having dinner and
we we go over this book called follow and we're spending three hours at your
house and maybe 30 minutes in that follow so we're having conversations just
about life he's challenging me spiritually challenging me just as a man
but I want to bring up one of the experiences if that's okay sure go for
yeah so my favorite moment and we joke about this all the time but it was the
week on forgiveness and the idea of this experience is we take a sheet of paper
and we write we write down a name of somebody that we have to forgive and I'm
laughing because it's just the jokes that come with this but I wrote down my
dad's name and just all the things that I was forgiving him for and what we did
is we went outside Bob started a fire and we threw the paper in the fire and we
prayed as that paper burned away but I cannot as much as I make fun of that
experience I can honestly say that that really impacted me a lot. The whole time we're doing this is the stupidest thing I've ever done. I go write down those things and he goes this is so dumb and I go just write all this down and I go and say it out loud to me so then we go outside tomorrow and he goes it couldn't get any
stupider than this and then I look while he's praying and the tears are coming down his eyes I'm like got him and by the way I do I do make him study so I'm trying to throw him off
because he does have to memorize stuff so I want to see because I gave you a different
verse last service do first John 5 11 through 13. Can I phone a friend? No alright.
That's the that's the testimony one it's this is the testimony God has given us
eternal life in this life is in his son whoever has the son has life whoever does
not have the son of God does not have life I write these things to you who
believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life
let's go well done I memorized it because I don't want to write it 50 times
maybe maybe just kind of wrap this up with this with somebody here who goes
ham I'm feeling like I haven't experienced the life of discipleship or I know there's more to this Jesus thing I know there's a step forward for me
any encouragement you have for them what it to take that step and and enter in oh
yeah absolutely if you are really wanting to take your walk with Jesus
seriously partner with somebody the best decision that I have ever made was
recognizing that I can't do this by myself I've tried but really just taking
advantage of the people that are around you and the love that people want to pour
into you it's truly life-changing I mean the Bible says we're not supposed to do
life alone even back to Genesis God was like everything is good and then he
looks at man and was like it is not good for man to be alone so if you don't have
a partner find a partner not romantically like just somebody who can walk
alongside you in Christ and then the romance that that'll come but
anyway sometimes a bromance apparently so I would say I would say this church
that when it comes to stage two as a home base in this life of discipleship
one of the catalysts to move you forward is that your isolation it's when you
recognize I wasn't meant to do this life alone I don't have what I need to
follow Jesus and I need someone to be a guide and so isolation is actually a
catalyst to get you to move from recognition of God into hey I need
someone to walk with me and so I would just say for you that if that's you
where you're going there's a sense of belonging and learning that I'm lacking
in my life I don't feel like I've ever had a discipleship experience where
someone has walked me through the foundations of the faith and so my
foundation feels that scaffolding feet doesn't feel like it's in place then I
would just encourage you use that isolation to be a catalyst to to say hey
I'm gonna I'm gonna step out and go I need someone to to walk with me so would
you do this would you say thank you to these two for me part of part of this
collection is that hopefully what you discover here is my home base and here
is how I take ownership of my growth that requires opportunities to step
forward and step into faith so just like last week if you don't have
recognition of God if you need Jesus a Savior if there's a moment where you
need to go I got to give him my whole life like that was a that was a moment
to respond we want to do that all the way through this collection because
every single one of us if you are human you have a moment to take ownership of
your maturity with God and so we want to provide those all along the way and so
with that if you're in the room and you go hey I I remember you're like Bob
you're like I can remember someone walking with me I can remember the
foundations of the faith that scaffolding being put in place that life of
discipleship the learning and the belonging I can remember what that was
like then then you have something to give so just like Jesus goes hey come
follow me you've had an opportunity to follow and now he's gone hey I'm sending
you you need to give away to be sent is to give away what you have been given
and so if you are in the room and you go or across the screen or at part
collective this morning and you go hey I've had a moment with Jesus where I
have received and I have lived this life of what it means to become a
disciple I've been under an apprenticeship to Jesus with someone
and maybe that was a group maybe that was one-on-one but you go I know I've
experienced that and my scaffolding feels secure than what I'm gonna ask of you
what we're gonna ask of you is would you be willing to go hey I'll give that away
but there's others of you that are here and you're going and by the way one of
the things with this whole collection there is no shame for the stage you're
at this is not a shame thing this is just a realization of hey this is where
I'm at my spiritual journey and I need help I need to grow I need to step
forward and so if you're here and you go I don't think I've ever had somebody
walk with me I don't think I've ever experienced this life of discipleship I
don't think my foundation is where it needs to be then today your commitment
is I would like somebody to walk with me and so here's how we're gonna do this
if you are able and you have a phone okay so if you're in the room and you have
a phone and you are able okay so say it with me if I have a phone and I am able
okay online if I have a phone and I am able okay park collective if you have a
phone and you are able we would like for you to do this I'm gonna go a little
further than that as a church family both here Baghdad, Paldon, Park Collective,
online we need you to do this okay you ready got your phone out we're gonna do
it right now okay there's like four of you moving you all have phones I know it
take your phone out you're gonna see a QR code come up on screen I need you to
scan that QR code I'm not even gonna help you you ready hit your camera button
zoom in a link pops up don't take a picture it won't work if you take a
picture just saying click the link it'll take you to a survey I need you to
fill out the survey right here right now this is not a later thing you know why
there's a football game right and you're gonna forget you're gonna eat too much
food and you'll be in a food coma I know it but you need to fill out the
questionnaire right now it's that important so if you have a phone and you
are able you should be filling out a questionnaire on your phone right now and
the lights aren't that bright I can still see you okay if you have a phone and
you're able you're doing it if you don't have a phone and or you are not able
raise your hand we'll get you a paper copy keep your hand up it'll get to you
if you get a paper copy please fill it out and turn it in before you leave those
of you online there should be a link that you can get to from YouTube this
morning the link should be posted you can get to it there because obviously your
phone and your screen your phone may be your screen that's a little tricky so
you can get to the link there on on YouTube this morning back that paul then
you can use the QR use your phone same with Park Collective and we're just gonna
give you time the way God designed this you guys is that we walk alongside each
other the way that God made us to form spiritually is that we would have
somebody to disciple us somebody to help us apprentice under Jesus somebody to
help us become more like Jesus so I'm gonna give you another 30 seconds can
you imagine a church where the people that have received the privilege of
knowing how to walk with Jesus okay it's a privilege that the people who know how
to walk with Jesus and have been walking with Jesus turn around and go I'll
give it away and they turn around and there's a group of people that go hey I
don't know what it looks like to walk with Jesus yet but I really want to walk
with him can you imagine the power of a church where people everybody in the
family goes I know how to walk with Jesus and then they in turn turn around
start giving it away that's how you change the world that's how you change
communities that's how you change and we have the privilege to do that but it
begins with you making a commitment to go what I have I will give away and
somebody else going what I don't have I'm asking for it's a beautiful moment
okay you got it you look like you're all done everybody's looking okay we have a
privilege in here if you remember this stage life of disciple life of
discipleship what it means to be a disciple it's about learning and
belonging you know what happens in here every week when we sing we belong
because we're all singing the same thing right we're all worshiping the same
God and so in the room what happens in worship is there's a sense of belonging
this standing shoulder to shoulder you begin to worship God together and it
creates a sense of belonging that we're created for for all of eternity and
then in the midst of that in the midst of that there's some of you that have been
worshiping for a long time there's some of you that are experts when it comes to
worship and song and so what happens is you get to be a part of helping somebody
else learn right somebody else who goes I don't know how to do this karaoke thing
and they get to look at you and they get to see how you worship and they learn
from you it's this beautiful moment that what we're talking about in the life of
discipleship gets to happen live in the room so if you would would you stand
where you are and here's what we're gonna do we're gonna help people belong
because you don't know who's next to you who just needs to belong today you can
stand up we're gonna we're gonna sing and then you're gonna help people learn
how to worship because you have been given the gift of worshiping God I don't
know about you but last week when people came down for a moment with the Holy
Spirit and God is saving people I don't know if you go back to when Jesus saved
you the only thing I have when I focus on the person of Jesus and what he has
saved me from is a hallelujah that's all I got is just thank you all I got is a
hallelujah and so if you would would you worship together this morning