Journey Church

#NewLifeInChrist

“So you no longer... You you don't have to work yourself back up to try and get back to be good with God because it's already done. The cross is the new starting point. The cross is the new starting point. We we don't go back to the cross. We go from the cross. We go from the cross to where Jesus has called us to be. We go from the cross to rule and reign with Christ. That is our goal in the same way that Adam was put in the garden, to tend and keep it.”

#UnityInChrist

“What it's saying is that God's solution to what's wrong with the world is to bring everything together at one with him. It's bringing all things that have been disunified back into unity with him. And the way that we are best to understand God's atonement is not as a single color, but as a kaleidoscope.”

#FaithOverFear

“God's word is a lamp that gives direction when we are uncertain. You know, when we're filled with uncertainty, we all know what it feels like. Sometimes anxiety can rise, or sometimes we've got fear and doubt that takes control. And we all know when that happens, sometimes we can fail to move. Sometimes we will be unwilling to move. But faith requires a willingness to act without all the answers. Faith is trusting God enough to obey what he has already made clear.”

#HolySpiritPower

“And on such a higher level, the Holy Spirit is so much better at doing life than we are. The Holy Spirit is so much better at doing relationships than we are. The Holy Spirit is so much better at doing money, you name it, than we are. And when we're temples of the Holy Spirit, we carry that into every facet our life because the Holy Spirit indwells us to become like Jesus. And that is what I want to do. And I can't do that. Yeah. I can't do that on my own strength. No matter how much I try, no matter how much I strive, no matter how many masks I put on, I can't do that without the power of the Holy Spirit.”

#JesusTheLamb

“Jesus came not to improve our life. We're gonna get out of this idea that being a Christian is like, oh, Jesus is my guru. Jesus is no guru. Jesus is the lamb of god. He's the sacrifice of the father so that death, whoever says yes to him, death doesn't touch us anymore. Sin has no hold over us. Jesus isn't my guru. He's the lamb of god for my life, and the blood of the lamb touches my heart. And now I have the power to say no to those things that e... Would easily entangle me. Death has no sting anymore.”

#PrayerfulSurrender

“This is why prayer is so important. Prayer is not about demanding my rights before god. Prayer is about surrendering my heart before the lord. Here's the third one. Meekness is leaning into his care, casting all your cares upon him for he cares for you. He cares for you. God cares for me. He's so kind towards me. And if something hasn't been released in my life that I think should be released in my life, it's it's not because he's mean. It's because he cares for me.”

#RelationalRedemption

“Rule of thumb, the bigger the promise, the slower the keeping. Not because God is slow, but because he's committed to redemption relationally. Always the most loving way and not necessarily the most efficient way. He's committed to redemption relationally. You are not a project. You are a person being loved into wholeness, and it doesn't happen overnight.”

#MakeRoomForGod

“Lord, thank you that you speak to each and every one of us. Thank you that all day, every day, you are knocking on the doors of our hearts and mind, and you will never stop knocking because you love us, and you are desperate for us to remember that we are made in your image. Lord, I ask that just right now you'd be speaking to each one of us about how we can make more room for you. It might mean we have to give some things up, But making room for you is where life really begins.”

#ActsContinuesJesus

“And this is where Acts kind of becomes the sequel to the gospels. It becomes the sequel to the gospels. Acts is not the closing of Jesus' story. It's actually now the sequel of Jesus' story. Acts is not the closing of what Jesus did, and now it's time of the church. No. Acts is now the beginning of what Jesus is doing within the church. Okay? That's what the book of Acts is all about. So”

#TransformNotInfo

“and I'm gonna give us a framework for how we can do this. Because, again, when when we're reading scripture, when we're in when we're interpreting scripture, the goal is not information. Information won't transform you. The person of Jesus Christ will transform you. Information is great and and, you know, the context is important and all of that stuff. But solely information is not gonna transform your heart. It's not gonna change the way that you speak. It's not gonna change the way that you act. It's not gonna change the way that you interact with people and God. But but when we get when that gets into our spirit and it sharpens us, something incredible happens. And so,”

#SurrenderToMultiply

“Jesus doesn't ask though, is it enough? That's not what Jesus asks. He asks, what do we have? That was the question that Jesus asked. The kingdom principle is this, that God uses what we're willing to give away. That's what God uses. God uses what we're willing to give away. Because ultimately, the boys' lunch was enough to feed about 10 to 12,000 people. Jesus wasn't asking for an amount. He was just asking for a surrender.”

#MultipleFallsInGenesis

“If you were to ask a Western Christian why the world is the way it is, they would say before, Evil entered into the world. But if you were to ask a Jew or a first century Christian, the time that the Bible, the New Testament was written, if you were to ask that why the world is the way it is, they would say the falls, plural. Because there are actually three rebellions in the book of Genesis, and we need to understand that because all of them are important to the condition of mankind today.”

#DontPoliticizeScripture

“Politics. People take the bible, and they put it through the filter of their own politics, and they make God say things that God never said. Right? Why does context matter? Because context protects us from creating a God in our own English. It protects us from us shaping the scriptures into our own things that we want to do. And if we do that, we begin shaping the scriptures, we make God say things that God didn't say.”

#GodSearchingForPeople

“``The Bible is not a book about God, but it's a revelation of God to humanity amongst all of our trouble, all of our pain, all of the good things that happen in our lives. It is God revealing himself in all of those things, which makes Christianity quite unique. Because Christianity, right, by nature, is not people searching for God, but it's god searching for people. Hallelujah. That's what makes us so unique.”

#FaithNotOptional

“``You know, a sure way to have faithless children is to practice your faith as an option. The sure way to make sure that your kids are faithless is to practice your faith as an option. Right? I heard someone once say that what is optional for you becomes irrelevant for your children. What's optional for you becomes irrelevant for your children. You know? Maybe we can say it this way. Optional Christianity is irrelevant Christianity in the next generation. Optional Christianity is irrelevant Christianity in the next generation. Your children become an image of your passions, your decisions, and your indecisions.”

“When the truth and not the lies of the world, the flesh or the devil, when the truth becomes the majority in your week, your life will change. It will. You might not get anything out of reading your bible, but reading your bible will get stuff out of you. Maybe you think that reading your bible will cause you to know more about God and then be more mature. Maturity doesn't relate to knowledge. It relates to practice and transformation. Yeah.”