Churches in North Lakes

“So when you see that, say to them, I'm gonna hold your arms up this week. Again, we're speaking metaphorically. Right? I want someone walking around holding my arms. So I'm gonna pray that the tide of your marriage battle turns. I'm gonna pray that the tide of your work battle turns. I'm gonna pray that the tide tide of your health condition turns. Be their arm bearers.”

“It was at those times, the tide of my life, the battles started to turn the other way. If raised hands can positively change the tide of the battles in my life, why would I ever lower them? Why would I lower them? Why would I not be in prayer? Why would I not call out to the God of the universe who loves me and calls me his child?”

“There's no good reason why you should miss out on all the help that God is willing to send your way. There's no good reason that you should be trying to do all of these things in your own strength. You weren't designed for that. So why don't you just once in a while ask God for help? Why don't you seek his guidance? Why don't you just knock if you need God to open a door for you?”

“This was not a thirty second prayer huddle and back to work as usual. These three guys had fought for God's divine intervention cause it was a life or death situation on that hilltop all day, all day long, from sunup till sundown. They endured the entire day and into the evening, and here's Moses, arms aching from the prayer battle.”

“"Child protection needs to be embedded in our culture. It's not just something that we do as an add -on. It's something which is part of our well -being, as part of our DNA within Access Church. We need to reduce the opportunity to offend. This is a really, really important point. It sounds very simplistic, but it's a very important point. If people don't have the opportunity to offend, then there won't be offences kind of occurring."”

“"To disobey a rule can lead you with a fine or, for some circumstances, a jail sentence. So we have to follow the rules emphatically within that. So in terms of the rules and guidelines, rules, policy and laws must be followed and breaches endanger our children and our people and they can have punitive consequences. Guidelines on the other side are procedures, they're processes, they're advice."”

“"So understanding safety and good practice. This is something which is a little bit novel. It's not a huge point but I want you to get this bit of understanding the difference between a proverb, and a promise or a rule within it. Now in the Bible we have proverbs. So how many proverbs are in the Bible? Hundreds. Do you know that in the Bible that there are proverbs that are not always true? Are you shocked by that? There are proverbs that are actually contradictory of each other."”

“"Think of the multiplication of the doubling of the fire. We're in big trouble at that point. So even though our top priority, our very highest priority is always to get the people out of the building and make sure that's happening. If we have spare staff at that point in time they should start trying to extinguish it and just because i've been mentioning that room over here one of the things that you would do is put the gas around the perimeter of the door rather than opening the door and it would be sucking it in anyway because of the fire consuming the the oxygen that's inside so an evacuation needs to be completed in a couple of minutes within it two and a half minutes would be good for our church here but um three minutes tops and if we can't do it in three minutes as i said we have to change our practices within that the um the greatest danger within the fire as i said before is in terms of smoke inhalation another danger is stampede i just tried to use a dramatic word but if we're all trying to get out really really quickly and start pushing each other at the front there's a danger within that and there's tremendously tragic sort of stories whereby there have been fires and people have been trampled"”

“"All right the C says confined and closed doors. Again if that room was on fire there one of the worst things you could do would be to open the door because the fire would explode out from from that. As you know fires need combustible materials. They need an ignition point and they need oxygen kind of coming into them and if you open the door and give it more oxygen the fire is going to increase dramatically. At that point so we close doors and as we evacuate and get out of it and after these rooms at the side are checked the doors need to be closed."”

“"The impact of a fire, what we have to understand is that if there is a fire within our church, and I'm trying to make this as real as possible, but if there's a fire in our church, and if you see the room there on the right -hand side, it's got a range of electrical equipment within that, amplifiers and etc. within that. If that was to catch fire, what would happen within the church? Now one thing that would happen would be smoke would start to pour out from underneath the door and around the door kind of thing within it. Now the impact of a fire is that the most dangerous thing for you as a church, if that was happening now, is not the flames, it's the smoke. Because the smoke coming off will be toxic. The smoke coming off will be carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. So the difficulty is the smoke more than the actual getting burnt kind of thing within it. So the other thing too that we need to think about is the impact of a fire. So the impact of a fire is that a fire will double every 30 seconds if it's not impeded at all. It will double every 30 seconds. So when you're thinking about that, what does that mean? It means we've got to get out of here as quickly as possible. So the acronym that we use in terms of that is R .A .C .E. And R stands for rescue or R stands for removing people or evacuation."”