Churches in Davisburg

“"Some of the other pieces were what kind of baptism do we do? Do do we sprinkle water on the head? Do do we pour water over or or do we immerse? And some got so hard lined about that that that they were like, well, if you don't immerse, then it doesn't count. And somehow we missed something that it is not about what we do with the physical water that makes the difference. It's about the baptism and the holy spirit that makes the difference. It's what's going on spiritually in baptism, in communion, in anything else that we do.”

“"You can't say I follow unless you are spending time with him. Now we know we can't do that face to face. Jesus doesn't walk up to the shoreline and call us from whatever job we're doing and say, hey. Come on. You know, just just hang out with me. We're gonna spend three years together. But he has given us his word, and he has given us the holy spirit.”

“"I wanna change your heart. I wanna change your mind. I wanna begin to tran change your relationships. I wanna begin to change your peace and your joy and your love, and that's what I wanna bring to you. If all Jesus had to offer was live your seventy, eighty, ninety, a hundred years, and at the end, I'll give you something good. Friends, that is so woefully short of the gift that Christ has offered us.”

“"Jesus is saying, that's not it. My yoke's not about just being a bunch of rule following. He goes, I'm not about a religion. I'm about a relationship. I want a relationship with you. I want you to learn from me. I want you to take my yoke upon you. I want you to know what it is that you were created to live in my kingdom.”

“"So every day, every time, every time we come together for worship and we encourage one another and we build one another up and we challenge one another in the way that we're walking, every accountability relationship that we end in, end up with where we say, okay, this area of my life, I see it doesn't line up with God's word. And so I want to, I want to work on that area. I've been convicted in that area. And so I'm going to talk to my, my brother, Joe. I'm going to talk to my sister, Ethel. I'm going to say, I want you to hold me accountable. A few weeks ago, I talked to you about praying every day when I came in here, right? Into the church."”

“"But if we keep tilling the soil, if we keep in these accountable relationships, if we keep on leaning into each other and encouraging each other and loving each other, if we end up in discipleship groups where, where we're going to start, we've got a couple going on right now, but we're going to start a couple more here on the other side of our resurrection Sunday in which we come together. And what are discipleship groups? They're things in which we are, we are looking at our lives in light of the word and saying, okay, do our lives, do our lives reflect the word?"”

“"Heavenly Father you showed your deep love for us in sending your son our dear and precious Savior we give you all honor and glory and praise we pray forever in the name of Christ our Savior Amen well friends as exciting as it is when we talk about lifting up missional offerings and transforming situations around the world we come every week and we lift up our tithes and our offerings because God calls us to be a witness and when it talks about being a witness in Acts 1 -8 it says do it in Jerusalem do it in Judea do it in Samaria do it in the outermost reaches of the world and so he's talking about it do it amongst the lives of the people that you know the people that are similar to you do it to the neighbors that maybe you don't know or even those you don't get along with all that well pray for them and be God's witness be a witness to the whole world that's who we're called to that's who we're called to be and so as we come today we lift up our tithes and our offerings because we seek to be that church that lifts up the light of Christ so let us come this day and give our gifts unto the Lord."”

“"Why is it that we look back to the days when Christians would sit there and come together on Sunday and worship and come together on Saturday and do a barn raising in one day? And we say, whoa, weren't those incredible days where everybody cared about their neighbor and everything? But if we keep on being independent as the body of Christ, we are continuing to witness what the world is witnessing to us."”

“"Christ our Lord invites to His table all who truly love Him, who earnestly repent of their sin, who dwell in charity with their neighbors, and who intend to live a holy life. Draw near with faith and take this holy sacrament to your comfort, making your humble confession to Almighty God. Let us pray."”

“"But that's what we battle with, right? I mean, we battle with that in our lives where if we leave things untended, the world in all its temptations, in all that it pours out, Satan in all of his deceptions, all of his lies tries to pour into our lives and bait us to go back and lean into ourselves, lean into worldly ways and to stop trusting the Lord our God. If we decide to stand still and not till the soil, every area of our life will begin to ebb toward being more calloused, more rigid, more hard and unfertile."”