Making Room for Miracles: Faith and Action
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "So often we want the results, but we aren't willing to put in the work. For example, we want more money, but we don't want to work more. We want a better marriage, but we don't want to invest into it. We want to be physically strong, but we don't want to go to the gym. We want a healthy body, but we also want to be able to eat whatever we want. We want to raise godly kids, but we want to outsource parenting to our public schools. Anybody out there? We want to know more of the Bible, but we want to watch Netflix for three hours a night. We want a healthy church community, but we don't want to open up our lives and spend time with anybody. We want God's blessings, but we don't want to obey God's word." [07:55]
2. "Rest is not just a break from activity. Rest is getting alone with Jesus, allowing him to fill us up so that we can go out into the world. Rest is found in Jesus." [10:54]
3. "Sometimes God will give you the opportunity to be the answer to your own prayer request. I remember when I lived in New York City and I was walking. I lived on the corner of 33rd and 8th, if anybody's ever been to Manhattan. It's the same corner that Madison Square Garden is on. And I used to walk by and I would see lots and lots and lots of homeless people. And I used to walk by and think, someone should do something about this. Someone. I don't know who, but someone should help me. I don't know who, but someone should help me. And I said, okay, I'm going to do these guys. Somebody. And then one day I felt like God spoke to me and said, you're right. You do something." [16:53]
4. "Jesus is saying to everybody, yes, I will meet your physical needs, but even more than that, I will meet your spiritual need. I will provide for you spiritually. The whole point of this story is, it's echoing what Moses did, leading the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. When manna appeared in the wilderness, the whole point of the feeding of the 5,000 is to show that Jesus is a better Moses. That Jesus doesn't just meet your physical needs, but He meets your spiritual needs. So yes, Jesus can satisfy you physically, He will provide for you, but Jesus describes Himself as the bread of life. It is only in Jesus that your spiritual needs, the deepest needs of your soul, get met. Without Him, there is something missing." [29:02]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Ultimately, it is God's job to move, but it is our job to make room for God to move. It's God's job to speak to us, but it's our job to be obedient to God's voice. It's God's job to give us his power and authority, but it's our responsibility to walk out in his power and authority. It's God's job to pour out his Holy Spirit, but it's our job to steward God's presence. It's God's job to do a miracle, but it's our part. It's God's job to be able to participate with him in the miracle that he's doing." [09:36]
2. "There's a tension between rest and action. Getting alone with Jesus and ministering on his behalf. Ministering to him and ministering for him. We need to understand each. Because on one end of the spectrum is what I'll call Christians that are a little bit lazy. And we want to sit and just not do anything at all. And Christians that are lazy love the Bible verses about getting rest. And rest is so important. We need it. Take a Sabbath. Get a rest. But if we, all we do is sit and rest and we never do anything, we never obey God and what he's asking us to do, we'll end up being a lazy Christian. The other end of the spectrum is overworking Christians. Workaholic Christians. And we work and we work and we work and we work and we make no time for rest and we get depleted." [12:32]
3. "If you want to follow Jesus, the healthy rhythm is not doing nothing 24-7 and it's not working 24-7 until you burn out. It is exactly what the disciples did. They came into Jesus, spent time with him, rested, and then they went out from him and ministered on his behalf. There's a healthy rhythm to coming in and to going out. If you will come into Jesus, allow him to give you rest. Allow him to fill you. Allow him to rejuvenate and restore your soul. You can then go out and minister not out of an empty tank but out of overflow." [13:56]
4. "If you are not faithful with the opportunities that God gives you, you will miss out on being a part of what God wants to do in you and through you. You and I can't abdicate and miss out on our responsibility. And the problem today is that we there, I met a kind of an old friend, and he said, hey, I want to introduce you to somebody. He introduced me to a pastor who led a church in London. And that guy said, hey, I've been looking for somebody kind of like you. Let's meet up for coffee in a couple days. I'd love to hear more about you. We ended up meeting for a two-hour coffee. At the end of that coffee, he looked me straight in the face, and he said, Max, I think God's got something on your life. I want you to come to London. I want you to be a pastor at our church. We'll sponsor your visa. We'll take care of everything. All you have to do is say yes." [27:39]
5. "If you are faithful with what little God's given you now, if you are faithful with little, God will give you much. If you take care of your part, God will take care of his part. So Jesus directed them to sit, to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. They sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples and they distributed them to the people. He also divided up the two fish among them all. They all ate and were satisfied. And the disciples picked up 12 basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. The number of men who had eaten was 5,000. So they gave God what they had, which wasn't much, and they walked away with more left over than what they gave in the first place." [24:50]
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1. "So often we want the results, but we aren't willing to put in the work. For example, we want more money, but we don't want to work more. We want a better marriage, but we don't want to invest into it. We want to be physically strong, but we don't want to go to the gym. We want a healthy body, but we also want to be able to eat whatever we want. We want to raise godly kids, but we want to outsource parenting to our public schools. Anybody out there? We want to know more of the Bible, but we want to watch Netflix for three hours a night. We want a healthy church community, but we don't want to open up our lives and spend time with anybody. We want God's blessings, but we don't want to obey God's word." [07:55]
2. "Rest is not just a break from activity. Rest is getting alone with Jesus, allowing him to fill us up so that we can go out into the world. Rest is found in Jesus." [10:54]
3. "Sometimes God will give you the opportunity to be the answer to your own prayer request. I remember when I lived in New York City and I was walking. I lived on the corner of 33rd and 8th, if anybody's ever been to Manhattan. It's the same corner that Madison Square Garden is on. And I used to walk by and I would see lots and lots and lots of homeless people. And I used to walk by and think, someone should do something about this. Someone. I don't know who, but someone should help me. I don't know who, but someone should help me. And I said, okay, I'm going to do these guys. Somebody. And then one day I felt like God spoke to me and said, you're right. You do something." [16:53]
4. "Jesus is saying to everybody, yes, I will meet your physical needs, but even more than that, I will meet your spiritual need. I will provide for you spiritually. The whole point of this story is, it's echoing what Moses did, leading the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. When manna appeared in the wilderness, the whole point of the feeding of the 5,000 is to show that Jesus is a better Moses. That Jesus doesn't just meet your physical needs, but He meets your spiritual needs. So yes, Jesus can satisfy you physically, He will provide for you, but Jesus describes Himself as the bread of life. It is only in Jesus that your spiritual needs, the deepest needs of your soul, get met. Without Him, there is something missing." [29:02]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Ultimately, it is God's job to move, but it is our job to make room for God to move. It's God's job to speak to us, but it's our job to be obedient to God's voice. It's God's job to give us his power and authority, but it's our responsibility to walk out in his power and authority. It's God's job to pour out his Holy Spirit, but it's our job to steward God's presence. It's God's job to do a miracle, but it's our part. It's God's job to be able to participate with him in the miracle that he's doing." [09:36]
2. "There's a tension between rest and action. Getting alone with Jesus and ministering on his behalf. Ministering to him and ministering for him. We need to understand each. Because on one end of the spectrum is what I'll call Christians that are a little bit lazy. And we want to sit and just not do anything at all. And Christians that are lazy love the Bible verses about getting rest. And rest is so important. We need it. Take a Sabbath. Get a rest. But if we, all we do is sit and rest and we never do anything, we never obey God and what he's asking us to do, we'll end up being a lazy Christian. The other end of the spectrum is overworking Christians. Workaholic Christians. And we work and we work and we work and we work and we make no time for rest and we get depleted." [12:32]
3. "If you want to follow Jesus, the healthy rhythm is not doing nothing 24-7 and it's not working 24-7 until you burn out. It is exactly what the disciples did. They came into Jesus, spent time with him, rested, and then they went out from him and ministered on his behalf. There's a healthy rhythm to coming in and to going out. If you will come into Jesus, allow him to give you rest. Allow him to fill you. Allow him to rejuvenate and restore your soul. You can then go out and minister not out of an empty tank but out of overflow." [13:56]
4. "If you are not faithful with the opportunities that God gives you, you will miss out on being a part of what God wants to do in you and through you. You and I can't abdicate and miss out on our responsibility. And the problem today is that we there, I met a kind of an old friend, and he said, hey, I want to introduce you to somebody. He introduced me to a pastor who led a church in London. And that guy said, hey, I've been looking for somebody kind of like you. Let's meet up for coffee in a couple days. I'd love to hear more about you. We ended up meeting for a two-hour coffee. At the end of that coffee, he looked me straight in the face, and he said, Max, I think God's got something on your life. I want you to come to London. I want you to be a pastor at our church. We'll sponsor your visa. We'll take care of everything. All you have to do is say yes." [27:39]
5. "If you are faithful with what little God's given you now, if you are faithful with little, God will give you much. If you take care of your part, God will take care of his part. So Jesus directed them to sit, to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. They sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples and they distributed them to the people. He also divided up the two fish among them all. They all ate and were satisfied. And the disciples picked up 12 basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. The number of men who had eaten was 5,000. So they gave God what they had, which wasn't much, and they walked away with more left over than what they gave in the first place." [24:50]
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