Churches in Lake St Louis

“Ask a lot of questions. Ask a lot of questions. This is something Jesus did really well. If you'll notice throughout the gospels, Jesus would often create more confusion than he would clarity. He would off often build up more tension than he would resolve. And he did that for a reason, and that is so that people would meditate and reflect upon what he said. And then they would come to understanding themselves, which is the way to life. And so when you're you're spending time with these individuals, ask really intentional, meaningful, pointed questions.”

“We are the people who live life together. You could say we are the community of Jesus. The way we put it around here a lot is we are family. Yeah. This is who we are. You can go study your tail off in scripture, and you will not find a single time that it talks about the church as an individual person. We are in it together. So listen. You are never alone. You are never isolated. are brothers and sisters, and we are in it together. And we live within cultural forces that often push us in that direction.”

“In the end of the biblical stories that god is gonna do that with the entire universe. Restore it and renew it back to what it was intended to be from the beginning, which is a place where he fully dwells and he communes and partners with us. This is the end of the story. This is the great hope. This is the future that lies ahead of us, and we believe it with everything in us. In fact, we partner with him to bring it about. That's part of what we're doing as the church. We're partnering with him to bring about that ultimate renewal and restoration that we know will come in the end.”

“So on one hand, it's really simple. On the other hand, to do that well takes a lot of intentionality, a lot of mindfulness, a lot of time and attention. I think of of this through the parenting sphere. This is a lot like parenting. Like, in some ways, it's pretty simple. You just live life with your kids in a way that points them to the good life. Right? I mean, little conversations here and the way you make decisions and the way you react to to things, all these little things point them to what is possible, and that happens on the way to the grocery store, on the way to school, or right in the everydayness of life, you parent your children.”