Know God, Find Freedom, Take Your Seat

``The second one is your are you serving? I love what Ed Young says. If you're not serving, you're swerving. Why do we ask you to serve here just so we can get a lot of things done? No. Although serving does that when all of us do our part. We serve because Jesus himself said, I'd come not to be served but to serve. You wanna be like Jesus? Serve. Get connected. Serve on a regular basis. [01:12:38] (27 seconds)  #ServeDontSwerve

need a friend. You you the bible talks very clearly about who we hang with, who we're connected with. Your closest friends in life need to be believers. You you you and I need to have strong believers that we're doing life with. You wanna walk in freedom? Watch who you're hanging with. Watch who you're hanging with. The whole thing of you show me your five closest friends, I'll show you where I headed in life. I used to hate it when my dad said that. Now I know it. And you hang with turkeys, what are you gonna do? You're gonna be a turkey. You hang with some eagles, they're gonna help you fly. Bottom line. [00:59:25] (43 seconds)  #ChooseYourCircle

The table. Let's talk about the table and everything that the table brings because we need to understand that all of us have a seat at the table, but all of us are not in the same seat. And as your pastor, as your pastor, whether here at Greater Lafayette, whether in Danville, whether in in in in BOMO, as your pastor, it's our job to encourage you to move seats. But listen, we can't force you to move a seat. You have to choose to move. [00:51:25] (32 seconds)  #MoveSeats

And I'm just gonna tell you right now, finding good godly people, it takes effort. It takes work. It takes sacrifice. It takes showing up. It actually takes us being that for somebody else. I don't know about you, but I don't wanna just know that Jesus has given his life and went through what he went through for me to be free and do nothing with it. I wanna do something with it. And James, the half brother of Jesus, lets us know that one of the best ways that you and I can do that is being in relationship with people that we trust, that we confess we can confess our stuff to. Yeah. Listen. [01:00:08] (42 seconds)  #PursueGodlyFriends

To me to be fully engaged at this church, we look at four things. The first one is Sunday services. Am I showing up? I don't have time to go through all the seats. If am I showing up on a regular basis, or does everything else come between me and a Sunday morning experience? Am I prioritizing God's house? Am I fighting to be in God's house as much as I would at Purdue game? Do I get as excited and sitting in the front row as I would sitting in the front row at a Purdue game? If not, why not? You say that's silly. I don't know. Maybe it's something we can think about. [01:11:56] (42 seconds)  #ShowUpSunday

Now before you clap, be careful, though. I know I I tricked you because that means that, like, you're probably gonna have to park further down than what you wanted to. That means listen to me, campuses. That means that, like, you're gonna come in and your seat's gonna be taken. Yeah. Somebody's just not gonna know. They're gonna sit in that seat that's yours. They're just gonna take it. Hey. Check this out. If if this is what we own, people are gonna come in that don't smell like us. They don't look like us. They don't walk like us. They don't talk like us. They vote different than us. But we will still make room for them at the table. [00:53:59] (44 seconds)  #WelcomeEveryone

But it does. I think the table helps give us a clear picture, a better understanding, and it's important for us to pay attention to the table and remind ourselves that it's Jesus and his vision that continues to feed us as we show up to the table. [00:50:38] (17 seconds)  #JesusVisionFeeds

Knowing God is simply salvation. Can I just challenge us with the big idea that this is the most important seed? And so these other ones don't matter. No. They do matter. This is the most important. Why? Because this is eternities. This is lives that have been changed for eternity. [00:52:23] (22 seconds)  #KnowGodFirst