Lean Into Grace

I think it might be time to just throw this in here. I don't think you'll like it. Grace is the fuel for a demanding life, not an excuse to avoid one. It's it's it's a fuel for a demanding life, for for a rigorous life, not an excuse to avoid one. Well, I have grace. Just give me grace. Well, you have grace, so let's lean into the grace. An athlete is only crowned if in in competing, so I'll I'll move ahead to my my thing here, but an athlete is only crowned if competing according to the rules. [00:15:09] (49 seconds)  #GraceIsFuel

If Jesus is lord, that statement is public truth, which which means the way things actually are. Like, we actually believe that Jesus the Christ is lord to the glory of god the father, and every tongue will confess that Jesus is lord, then that's not a private thing. Do you understand that? You get that. It's not a private thing. This is, like, this is just true. This is just reality. Our culture hates reality. We love a bubble. We love our flat whites and air conditioning, and we just love the bubble. But that's not the way the world is. [00:23:48] (36 seconds)  #JesusIsPublicTruth

So your life is not a cul de sac of blessing. Lord, just let it rain down upon me. You are a conduit of blessing. You've been taught. It's not enough to just know it. And there's a difference, guys. There's there's those things. Information, knowledge, and wisdom. You start with information and you get you get a little something about it like, yeah. I got that. I got think I I think I understand. Well, now when you start to apply it, that's wisdom. For a Christian, we don't even stop there. We then share that with someone else, the next spiritual generation. [00:09:31] (32 seconds)  #FromKnowledgeToWisdom

So that's your field. Great. No one's saying don't abandon this field. You you know your field. You're called. Do it. Go for it. How can we support you? How can we love on you? So pick a field and and ask Jesus to tell you what he's doing. Don't do all three, but but make a small act of love or witness as you go there. And and this is why this matters. If if we stay as spectators, then we become a church of consumers. And that's not who we're called. We're called to give. We're you have a gift to give. [00:36:36] (30 seconds)  #StopSpectatingStartServing

Leaning into grace means letting it push through you into others, not just to comfort you. Oh, so nice. I'm softened by grace. Well, I hope your heart is soft, but you better be steeled for the journey ahead of you as well. So we share in suffering. What does he say? Share in suffering. It's not failure that you're suffering. It's hardships that actually shape you and move you and share in the in the sufferings of your commanding officer like Paul. Paul says to Timothy, you're my child. Be strengthened and share in the sufferings. Don't be embarrassed about me. [00:11:50] (35 seconds)  #GraceStrengthensService

We love the benefits of of sacrifice, excellence, and hard work for sure. So raise a glass on Memorial Day, you know, be excited about your team, won the play you know, won won some games, excited about the groceries at the door. How many of you like that little little thing happened in the last few years? Like, oh, look at that. Oh, there's all my groceries. That's pretty nice. Yeah. I like it. And as long as someone else is doing it, perfect. So you have to be very careful that we don't just turn into spectators and consumers when it comes to the calling on our life. [00:01:06] (43 seconds)  #RejectConsumerChurch

And so if Jesus is lord, that means that's the way the world is, and that also needs to be the way our world is. Like, Jesus is lord. Rigorous, costly service that multiplies your faith to other people, that is actual normal life. So some people have asked for this, and I don't know if they knew what they were asking, but, but I wanted to bring back pesky pastor questions, the PPQs. It just seemed right. So as a soldier, as an athlete, as a farmer, just put them all out there, but I got more to say. Is there anything rigorous about your allegiance to Jesus? [00:24:26] (50 seconds)  #CostlyServiceIsNormal

Or we just put that on the altar and just say, hey. I trust you. You're the one who provides. So I give this I remember that it's not them. It's not them. It's not the it's not the person who signs my paycheck that provides. It's you, and so here's my schedule. What do you wanna do with it? That would be something rigorous and challenging. Or is your or and I know it's supposed to be only three pesky questions, but it's, like, actually, like, nine. But, but is your faith carefully arranged to not disturb your civilian affairs? This would be the opposite of what he says. [00:26:50] (39 seconds)  #SubmitYourSchedule