CRINGE CHRISTIANS - Week 1 | Coastal Church

You are not here to shout and condemn and cancel the world. John chapter three verse 17. It'll be on the screen. God sent his son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. So if God didn't send Jesus to condemn the world, he didn't send you either. Shouting never removes darkness. Shining will. [00:54:34] (38 seconds)  #ShineNotShout

And I got to thinking, this is how we can get spiritually. We got the pill. We consume it for ourselves. We drink from the living water, but then we get distracted with whatever is important to us, and we don't serve it to those who are hurting, hopeless, and in need of peace. We wander through life feeling good about Jesus or arguing about something else while our neighbors and our friends are going to hell. [00:39:35] (45 seconds)  #ShareTheLivingWater

We're not a perfect church. When you find that perfect church, if one of us joins it, it'll be ruined. But we're not perfect. We're perfectly loved. We like to say that God doesn't just love us out of hell. He loves the hell out of us, and that's a lifelong process. And so God loved all of us so much in spite of our sin that he sent his son Jesus to die on the cross to pay for those sins, to do what we couldn't do. And now we have peace with God. [00:32:27] (32 seconds)  #PerfectlyLoved

Feel like a mic drop is needed there, you know, just but then the audio team gets mad. But, like, can our Facebook and Instagram post pass this test? Can the words that come out of our mouths when we're ticked off in traffic and I don't mean when you say, oh, bless his heart. Okay. Okay. Can they pass the test, or are we a cringe Christian? Repelling people more than drawing people in. [00:37:42] (36 seconds)  #CringeFreeChristian

Lord, I pray over each and everyone who's raised their hands, those have come forward, those even who are still thinking about it. Father, would you wash over them with your peace, with your love, with your forgiveness? Lord, would you expand our capacity for forgiveness? We don't have to dismiss dysfunctional behavior to be released from bitterness. So right now, I just pray that you would break those chains of bitterness. May we feel that right now, the release of the burden of bitterness. [01:13:54] (35 seconds)  #FreedomFromBitterness

What here's the whole problem of the cringe. When we're requiring behavior, when we're requiring transform we're requiring transformation before we've introduced him to the transformer. Not the more than meets the eye. Not that one. We're expecting them to be transformed by Jesus before we've introduced him. And we're like, nope. Not you. You're too far gone. Thank you for not being that church. [00:59:11] (35 seconds)  #IntroduceJesusFirst

We went to the kitchen, but we got distracted. We were sent, but we got distracted and forgot who we got sent to. They aren't in danger of a headache. They're in they're in danger of being eternally separated from God. Which do you think is more important? Our agenda or our assignment? Okay. Now if I haven't ticked you off yet, I'm here. I still love you. I don't like I said, I'm not pointing. [00:42:09] (45 seconds)  #MissionOverAgenda

Right? That's good. Those are good things. In fact, I wanna tell you before you send that email, I wanna tell you that I believe that when God transforms your heart, he will transform your politics. I'm not saying he'll make you my way. Okay. That's what the world's seeing right now, by the way, and it isn't working. They're cringing. They're nauseated. They're like, is this Christianity? So if I vote this way, then I'm a Christian? Shame on us for misplacing the proper medicine. [00:43:18] (36 seconds)  #FaithBeforePolitics