Mark 6 Jesus had compassion on them... (2026-01-11)

``At the end of your life, imagine if nobody ever told you about Jesus and you died in your sins, and you woke up in the pits of hell. Would you care even a little bit that that person's excuse is, well, you might not have believed me, or you might have argued against me, or or you might have stopped being my friend, or or you might have just ignored me. Would that matter? Those excuses would matter. Why didn't you tell me? [00:14:26] (36 seconds)  #TellTheGospel

Having compassion means that we don't just solve their problems. Now, by the way, I wanna clarify, it also doesn't mean that we don't help them. It doesn't mean that we don't, you know, do things to help our community. We absolutely must. In fact, if a man is hungry, you better feed him first before you tell him about Jesus. But the reality is he needs more of Jesus than he does food. Because at the end of the day, food ain't gonna get him to heaven. Yeah. Food ain't gonna give him eternity. Food, he's just gonna get hungry again. But Jesus, Jesus will fulfill all his needs. [00:04:53] (38 seconds)  #FeedBodyAndSoul

If your house was on fire and you didn't know, would you rather me tell you your house was on fire or buy you a nice beautiful blanket to put on your bed in your house? I mean, don't get me wrong. The blanket's nice. It's the super comfortable ones. You know, that super silky soft, really fluffy blanket, whatever kinds you like. And it's wonderful, and it's a a beautiful gesture as I'm coming to visit your home to give you a gift to your house. Yes. But your house is on fire. Wouldn't you rather me go, hey. Your house is on fire. [00:04:00] (33 seconds)  #WarnBeforeComfort

So how do we get God driven compassion? First of all, we need to learn to love God. That's the first thing. You've gotta learn to love God. And Jesus said, you can't know my father if you don't know me. So the first thing we have to do in order to love God is to know his son. We have to do that. We have to. Some of us say, well, I know Jesus, but then we live like we don't. [00:20:34] (30 seconds)  #KnowJesusKnowGod

But I wanna define each of these because it's important. Chasing after God means not doing it your way. It means doing it his way. It means studying the word of God, prayerfully going before God, and begging God, and pleading with God to show us exactly what he wants from us each and every day. We're guided by his truth, his word, and we're seeking him every day. [00:02:59] (22 seconds)  #ChaseGodDaily

Building disciples doesn't just mean building a bunch of robotic Christians that look and talk and act like Christian, but people who are genuinely in love with Jesus and in love with each other and walk throughout the day serving God and serving each other. That's what we wanna see. And compassion is a really important one because compassion for our neighbors looks a little different than the world's version of compassion. Compassion for our neighbors means we tell them the truth. [00:03:21] (29 seconds)  #AuthenticDiscipleship

The Bible says that either either for Christ or they're against Christ. And now I wanna make this clear. The Bible also tells us to love our enemies. So while we can acknowledge that there are enemies from a biblical standpoint, we're also called to love them, to have compassion for them, to care for them. And one of the greatest gifts we can ever give them is the truth of the gospel, the hope of salvation. Think about it this way. [00:13:51] (34 seconds)  #TruthWithLove

So God laid on my heart a burden and a heaviness for discipleship this year in a way that I've never had before. He also called me to the challenge of the three words, chase, build, and compassion. Chasing after God, we're gonna do that together. We're gonna build disciples together too, but we're also gonna do it as individuals because Jesus told us to go out and make disciples. And we're gonna show compassion for our neighbors. [00:02:32] (27 seconds)  #ChaseBuildCompassion