### Quotes for Outreach
1. "God doesn't demand our worship. He invites our worship. That's why I'm a Christian, because God never twisted my arm into following him. In fact, quite the opposite. God let me stray down some pretty tough times in my life, to stray down some pretty dark paths, and yet he was faithful to pursue me. He was faithful to love me. He was faithful to forgive me. How you been there? Have you experienced the mercy of Jesus? This side is God. And what about you guys? Have you experienced the mercy of Jesus? It's real. It pursues us. And it doesn't make a death wish demand of us."
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2. "Worship isn't something that we define and we do. Worship is our response to who God is. What he says and what he does. That is true worship. You see that difference there? We don't define worship. God does. We don't define anything. God does. And all of this existence is in our life is just a response to our creator. We're in nature who sings back the praises of God, of what he's birthed in our hearts."
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3. "Following Jesus means leaving the culture behind and putting our full faith in Jesus. My question for you this morning, what do you bow to? What do you worship? What lies of society have you accepted, maybe as the path of least resistance, but that's actually led you to false worship? If you're embracing the truths of society and how does society define things? You've missed the heart of God."
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4. "The world wants us to be silent right now. They want Christians to be weak pushovers. And I'm saying, no, I stand boldly on Jesus and what he has done for me. That this promise of new life is in Jesus and Jesus alone. It's not in humanism. It's not in how we redefine things, no matter how many times that happens. It's in God's truth. It's in God's truth. It's in God's truth. It's in God's truth. And I stand on that."
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5. "Jesus, the fourth man in the fire. God chose to prove his faithfulness, not just then, but now. But he chose to prove his faithfulness, not by rescuing them out of the fire, but actually to walk through the fire with them. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they came out unharmed. But listen, when Jesus would come down to this earth 500 years later from this story, he didn't escape. He gave his life freely, and he descended through the fire of hell to save the whole world. That's the God that we serve."
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### Quotes for Members
1. "It's an encouraging series because that's the reality of what we're living in right now, is a culture that's becoming hostile to God. It's silencing voices, it's forcing many Christians to become insecure about their beliefs, and it's becoming increasingly hard to stake, take a stand for truth. And so that's what we're going to be studying this morning, is faith in the fiery furnace. How to stand firm when the world is shaken around us, and when there is the threat of death and suffering and persecution. How to stay strong in our faith in Jesus."
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2. "I want a faith like that. I want a faith like that. So my hope this morning is that we're inspired by this story that we're going to read to be people with a backbone. To be strong in Christ when circumstances look bleak. That we would be Christians with an unwavering commitment to God, with a faith strong enough to stand boldly and unapologetically against cultural lies."
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3. "The response of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, it's quite amazing. They're respectful, but they're firm. They made a stand out of their conviction, and they're committed. To see it through. As I was studying this passage and just, yeah, just meditating on it this week, I just thought of Acts chapter 4, and the moment where Peter and John, they stand before the Sanhedrin. And if you know that story, they were under threat and under persecution from the ruling Jews at that time for speaking of Jesus, to declaring his gospel, that he had come down, lived that perfect sinless life, that he had paid the penalty for the sin of mankind, and that all who believe in him and the resurrected Jesus will have eternal life."
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4. "God is able, but even if not. This is a critical verse in this passage. It's a critical verse. There's two points that I just want us to focus on. God is able, but even if not. The first is this, is that they are totally convinced in God's ability. The key to the Christian faith is knowing that God is able. He is fully capable and he lacks nothing. He is all-powerful. Some of you have heard me say this before. I've heard it before. I've heard it turned away from God. You're not walking in an active relationship with Jesus. But I promise you this, your life has been preserved so many times, way more than you even know. You've been given grace that you don't even understand. That's the depth of God's love for you."
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5. "Sometimes we go through hard things, and we feel the challenge of living out our faith in a hostile culture, because we need to be purified. That the Lord lets us go through those challenging seasons and hard circumstances to purify us, to burn the lies of culture off, that we're in control, that it's my truth, that I define salvation, I define goodness, I define anything like that, and he uses it to bring us back to have faith, an authentic faith in him. That is his goodness, that he can use even the worst of circumstances to purify us and to give us hope."
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