Empowered by the Spirit: Embracing Growth and Unity

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "And one of the things that we celebrate, we celebrate that the Holy Spirit has been saving and converting thousands of people. He's doing it even now, all across the world, even in our midst. He's saving people. He's reconciling marriages, kids and grown kids that were far from God. He's bringing back, I was once lost, I was found. There are people who are experiencing God's grace, God's grace." [19:29] (20 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Joy is the business of heaven. G.K. Chesterton said that joy is the business of heaven. G.K. Chesterton had a book where he talked about how kids have this vitality, they're fierce, they're free, and they will have you do things over and over again, right? Have you ever had your kids or grandkids say, do it again, do it again? And you're like, I've done it 40 times. I'm tired of doing it again. Do it yourself." [01:11:38] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "When you look at the Bible, the joy is the language and the tone and the business of heaven. What brings God joy? When lost people are found, there's much rejoicing in heaven. The Bible says in the book of Philippians that God, who is at work in you for his what? Good pleasure. He finds pleasure when you grow and mature in holiness." [01:13:48] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "We want to be about lost people being found. And we want to do it again. Do it again. Do it again. And we want to see people who know Jesus grow up and mature in Jesus. And if we can hang on to that and be reliant upon the Spirit, what is God going to do? Amazing things. Amazing things." [01:14:46] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Shame on us when we don't expect the God of the universe to do it again, do it again, do it again. All right. Let me pray. God in heaven, thank you so much for what you have done, what you're doing. And we pray that you would do it again, do it again, do it again." [01:16:21] (18 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "The most persistent barrier to leading like Jesus is a heart motivated by self-interest. People with hearts motivated by self-interest put their agenda, safety, status, and gratification ahead of those things, and as we've observed in the process, we've observed Jeff, Essary, and Jonathan Pierce, that is not the case with them. They do put Jesus first in their lives for their neighbors." [51:49] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "To be a leader, to be particularly a deacon is to be a shock absorber. Our church is really blessed with a palpable sense of unity. We don't get everything right as leaders. We get some things wrong. I think that we get more things right than we get wrong. If you have a pattern of getting more things wrong than right, you probably don't need to be a leader, but when we get things wrong, there's sometimes murmuring complaints, and we don't have a lot of that, but one of the tasks and responsibilities of deacons, particularly, is to be a shock absorber that actually absorbs sometimes the disunity or the potential disunity, so you are called to be an agent of unity." [56:20] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "We want to continue to pour gasoline on the fire of international partnerships. Amen. When a church is planted, God's heart is always for the nations. It's always for the nations. And we have had a long history of being committed to the nations. And you've heard a lot about Ukraine. You've heard a little bit about India. You've heard some about Newfoundland, Canada. You've heard some about Scotland." [01:03:48] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "We want to send the message to our New Albany campus, which is the Sydney campus, which makes things happen. That though we want to go to Scotland and Newfoundland and India and Honduras, and though we want to plant campuses, we've not forgotten about New Albany. They're key and integral, so perhaps we might build a building. You're gonna hear more about that in the months to come." [01:10:17] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "We want to see New Albany continue to grow as we have an other-oriented posture. And I don't want us to get tired of the monotony and the familiarity of people coming to faith in Jesus and then growing up in Jesus. And I just want to say, like we said. I say every week. Maybe this is a phrase that we should adopt. As Pastor Ryan says, you're loved and you're sent. And then I say, be gone. Maybe we don't need to adopt that. You're loved and you're sent. And then maybe just say, God, do it again. God, do it again. God, do it again." [01:15:45] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)