Forward Point: Grand Opening

``We're not gonna be about decision. Because here's here's the problem. When you just rely on making the decision as being the source of your faith, that that's probably what we commonly known as Christianity. Well, a lot of Christians believe that it's like a third of the world would play to be a Christian. And you hear that number and that's that, you realize there's not a third of the world that's really acting like Jesus and everything. That's because it's just being a decision and not discipleship. [00:46:02] (29 seconds)  #DiscipleshipOverDecision

But people weren't getting closer to God. They just were getting farther and farther away from each other. And as he was here on Earth, he he kinda dropped some hints about what he was gonna establish for the church. But up until he does that, he just kinda walked around with his crew, his entourage, and rock people's lives. Right? And then he drops this little hit, and he says to Peter in Matthew, he says, Peter, you are a rock. And he says, this is the rock on which I put together my church. Right? This word church comes from this Greek word ekklesia. [00:37:12] (32 seconds)  #BuiltOnTheRock

Now this this becomes kinda tricky because in 2026, Christianity has kinda become more of a, you know, decision. It's less about being a disciple. It's more about making a decision. Worry about that. If we can have really good music and really good lights and and make people feel all warm and fuzzy, and by the end of the time together, we can make some raise in our hand and say a prayer, then they've made some kind of decision to follow Christ. Now that is part of the inflation. That's just a part. He says, you have to go out and train. [00:41:51] (28 seconds)  #WorshipCultureIsntEnough

But what they mean, control. Jesus says, man, my church is gonna be known because it's so expansive. The way that it just fills up the room, the way that it fills up James Street, the way that it fills up Eastwood, the way that it's gonna fill up Syracuse, like, it's just not gonna be able to be kept in a box. So that's the kind of vision that we have for what Ford is gonna be able to do here. And he says, this is gonna grow so big that even in that castle, that that place where where hell kinda has full base, it's not gonna be able to keep us out. [00:40:08] (31 seconds)  #ChurchWithoutLimits