Learn to Shine: Embracing Full Commitment in 2026

``He knew what his mission was. His mission was to set people free. His mission was to come as our sacrificial atonement. His mission was to pay the full price for our sin that we couldn't pay ourself And God sent himself in the person of Jesus to do that exactly that for us as the Messiah to die to give his life for us. This is what it was. He he embraced his as a passion. We need to be passionate about Jesus. We need to be bold in how we walk. I've mentioned to this to you guys before, but when Paul talks about boldness, he's literally talking about being set free. That's what the word literally means. [00:30:31] (38 seconds)  #MissionToSetPeopleFree

You know, in a day of racial resistance, we need to shine the light. There's no place in our should be any place in the church for prejudice or anything like that. It's about the gospel of Christ. Jesus died for all men. He loves all of us. He wants all of us to come in right relationship with him. [00:34:52] (16 seconds)  #JesusLovesAllPeople

And God's calling our church to shine the light in the darkest parts of our community, to reach people all over our community. That's why we're doing this community care center. That's why we we do the things that we do. That's why we have our food pantry and all these things. This is why we we we encourage each other constantly. Let's go across the street. Let's go down the hall, down some place, share the gospel with people. Tell people there is hope because that will shine the greatest light in their life. [00:22:53] (27 seconds)  #CommunityCareAndHope

Guys, we need to we need to know what we believe and why we believe it. We need to know the gospel. We need to be able to explain the gospel. Creation, fall, rescue, restoration. God created all things, but yet the fall that, you know, sin came into the world. Creation fall, rescue that he he sent himself in the person of Jesus to rescue us, to die for us, that we might have relationship with him, restoration that he would restore us back to the original relationship that we had before sin entered into the world. [00:38:18] (30 seconds)  #KnowTheGospelStory

You know, build relationships. We've been talking about this for a while, you know, to pray for people who don't know Christ. To look for opportunities, not just pray for them, to serve them. And then as God opens the door to shine the light of the gospel and share share with them. How about this? Jesus knew his mission and he embraced it with passion and boldness. [00:30:10] (22 seconds)  #PrayServeShare

You know, we're not all gonna agree on everything, but we can be in agreement that the purpose of the church is to glorify God, and the mission of the church is to make his name known name known. We can be in agreement that we're all called to take the gospel. If we can't come to agreement that the gospel should be at the core of all this, then man, there's something desperately wrong. We should be unified by the purpose of mission of the church to glorify God, to make his name known. [00:35:30] (26 seconds)  #ChurchForGodsGlory

How about this? Jesus was driven by the gospel. We need to be driven by the gospel. That Jesus Christ lived and died and rose again. That Jesus Christ died for us and gave his life for us. That Jesus Christ, you know, took our sin to the grave and he left our sin to the grave when he resurrected that we might have relationship with him. So he can say, come into me all you weak and heavy laden and I can give you rest. I'm the way, the, you know, the way, the truth and the life. No man come with the father except through me. This is who we're supposed to be. He was driven by the gospel. We need to be driven by the gospel. [00:29:34] (35 seconds)  #GospelDrivenLife

It's not about traditions. It's not about those kind of things. It's about us being the church even more than going to church even though it's important that we go to church because we need to be in community. But it was it was driven by souls. We need to be driven by souls. Everything we see, we driven by Christ because Christ was driven by souls. This is who we're supposed to be. [00:33:22] (20 seconds)  #BeTheChurchForSouls