The Church Must Leave the Building: Love in Action

``Here's what baptism means. And if you put your faith in Jesus Christ, you now have a relationship with God bought, paid for by the blood of Jesus. His sacrifice on the cross makes it possible for us to have peace with God. Now when you get baptized, that is a outward expression of the transformation that's already happened in your heart. When you put your faith in Jesus, the Bible tells us that your old ways are gone, that you have died to your old life, and now you're resurrected in Christ to live a new life in him. When that happens, you're transformed. End of story. But then God calls us in obedience to get baptized, to publicly proclaim our faith. [00:24:52] (56 seconds)  #BaptizedAndTransformed

In fact, that is what our our sermon is about today. The church must leave the building. We gotta be loving when we do it. Nobody ever decided, I'm gonna follow Jesus because of that crazy outrageous Facebook post that I saw on a Christian's profile. Alright? I don't know who I'm talking to. Maybe it's your friend. Maybe not. But I believe we have to be the church outside of this scheduled event every Sunday. I believe that when Jesus transforms you, he transforms your Facebook, your Instagram, your TikTok, even your Snapchat. [00:43:44] (41 seconds)  #BeTheChurchEveryday

as we see in the first part, says, hey. If we're if we look a little crazy, it's because we're not trying to please you. We're trying to please God. That's what makes people the good kinda crazy. That's what makes people say, you know what? I mean, normal people don't invite foster kids into their home. Normal people, even introverts, don't talk to their friends, their families, their coworkers about Jesus. Don't be obnoxious crazy. K? Crazy church person. Crazy. Okay. You know what? Y'all had somebody in mind right there. Okay? Don't be that crazy. [00:55:10] (40 seconds)  #GoodKindOfCrazy

So whatever you've heard about God, I wanna talk to those here who may have been dragged here against their will or or just maybe has something to do. I wanna talk to you. You may have heard God was a condemnor, and God is a judge. He that's part of his role. But when we read this verse, what's first and foremost is that God is a God of love. In fact, this verse personifies God himself as love. That's the God that we serve as a church. That's the God who welcomes you into a family because he loves you. [01:10:37] (47 seconds)  #GodIsLove

I wanna talk about this. Love that God's calling us into doesn't have fear. Now what he's saying is that if we have fear, it just shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. So love pushes out fear. If you're living in fear, if you're having difficult with fear, it must be because you have not fully experienced God's love. [00:59:46] (30 seconds)  #LoveCastsOutFear

But when you jump into the father's harm arms for the first time, there's a little bit of I don't know. When God calls you to himself or calls you even to go and do something, know that you're jumping into the arms of your heavenly father, and he never drops you. He'll never not catch you. So love is a verb. Love in verb form is fearless. [01:01:52] (29 seconds)  #LoveIsFearless

We're a church that's a family. God is our boss. Love is our mission. People are our passion. And so we say we our our church motto is be love. We will live the truth, speak the truth, doing it all in love so that the world can be transformed by the power of Jesus. [00:43:10] (21 seconds)  #BeLoveLiveTruth

But just because they tick you off, they post something stupid on whatever, I don't wanna be around them anymore. We don't have that luxury, brothers and sisters. Do you hear me? We don't need to go clean our friends list of people who believe differently than us politically. Am I crystal clear? We have a mission that's way more important than the next election. Are you hearing me? Yes. People cannot be given up on. [01:06:50] (37 seconds)  #PeopleOverPolitics