Feeding Our Daily Relationship with God

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "Did you know you're allowed to have fun at church? No. Even in the adult church. Now, I got a question. How many of you have ever seen the picture called Laughing Jesus? You've got to Google it. All right. Here's the thing. I feel like every picture we see of Jesus, he looks like this. Yep. That real pensive look of like, I'm very serious. But there's a picture of Jesus that somebody painted a few years ago. Now, that is a picture of him just with his head back laughing out loud. You know, I believe that God's got a sense of humor." [05:10] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "It's how many of you have ever experienced like an event with God? Like a retreat or a camp or a special service. And you know, moments like that feel like, wow, God is really moving. I wish I could replicate that again. Well, that's what we want to talk about today is that God's not just the God of our events. He's the God of every day." [08:56] (17 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Giving to God is an act of worship. It's us saying, God, you've been so good to me. How many of you could say that? God, you've been so good to me. Anybody? Yes, all right. God has been so good. And this is one of those moments where our faith in God goes from spiritual to tangible. Because it's like, you know what? I recognize mentally, physically, emotionally, God has been so good. Spiritually, God has been so good. I want to give back to Him physically and thank Him for His faithfulness." [19:29] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Can I tell you what we need most as the people of God? We need to pray. We need to pray because what does this tell us? We're living in a lost and broken world that needs Jesus. And if anything, Lord, double our efforts to send missionaries to Europe. Double our efforts to send missionaries into our communities because I don't know, this could just as easily happen in America as it did in France. We got a lot of people who need Jesus." [23:46] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "When you prioritize time with God on a regular basis, you start to change. And that's what they experience in moments like this, what you've experienced. But the other thing that I think is so important is this part. Of godly community. One of the things that makes a camp or a retreat or a worship service so awesome is guess what? Everybody in the room is doing the same thing too, right?" [39:16] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "My relationship with God will only grow if I'm feeding it. We're going to talk today about what it looks like to feed your relationship with God. But I'd like to put up a scripture verse for you found in 1 Corinthians 4. And this is the reality of why we focus on these things, right? Because it says we don't look at the troubles we can see now. Rather, we fix our gaze on things that can change us. God cannot be seen, right? God cannot be seen with our physical eyes. But that's what we fix our eyes on. For the things we see now will soon be gone. But the things we cannot see will last forever." [10:34] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "You know, when we were planning this service, one of the things we were looking at is, you know, we all have times and places where we go to events and do things. And if you've ever been to like a retreat or a camp or a special service, there are just things that you experience. There that it's like, I just don't experience that anywhere else. Or like that note that we read at the beginning where it's like, man, I wish it could be like this every day. And so we really wanted to investigate this idea of what's it like to have God in your life moving like that every day." [33:43] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "You know, a few months ago, my kids went to youth camp and when they got back, I had a conversation with one of my daughters a few days later. She said, dad, why is it that when we have worship at church, it's so different from worship at camp? I said, what do you mean? She said, well, we sang a song yesterday in church that we sang at camp. And she goes, but when I was at camp, there were people who were down on their knees and they're crying and they're worshiping the Lord and they're up front in the altar and they're, they're just responding to God. But, but we did that song yesterday and it just felt like everybody in the room was scared to move." [43:15] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "You know, say you were deciding like you are a phenomenal chess player. Anybody play chess in here? Four of you. Good. Chess is not something everybody knows, right? But you're like, I am going to start the Shenango Valley Chess Association. All right. That's going to be me. We're going to all play chess. We're going to get together and we're going to be the best chess players that ever lived. And we're going to have events and organize all these things. And we're going to do that. We're going to play chess. Let me ask you this. Does that draw you closer in relationship with Jesus?" [41:08] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "So I want to invite you adults. Would you let your kids lead you? Would you let these childlike faiths in the room lead you? And would you join us up here at the front for a moment of just, God, we're going to meet with you. We're going to have a time of, of worship with you. We're going to cry out to you and we're going to play a couple songs. And as we're doing this, can I encourage you just in your own heart and your own mind? What are some of the distractions I need to say no to? What are some of the distractions I need to say no to? What are some of the ways in which I can create priorities to serve God? And what are the ways I can build my God community?" [44:46] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)