Formed By Faithful Love: Mothers Day Service • Pathway Church Shorewood • 05/10/2026

I wanna say you this way. You you can't pass on what you don't have. You can't give what you don't possess. You can't show someone how to walk if you're not walking. Let me say it plainly. You yeah. You can't give what you don't have. You can't produce God results without God forming it in you first. First John four nineteen says it this way, we love because he first loved us. We can't love our children the way we're supposed to love them unless we fully understand how God loves us. The love, the patient, the wisdom that we need to lead to parent doesn't originate with us. [00:43:03] (53 seconds)  #FormedToGive

So some some started attending this church because you looked at the world and and you thought and said to yourself, you know what? I don't want my kids growing up like that. And that was prompted by the holy spirit opening your eyes. But I want I want you to hear me clearly. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian. Attending church doesn't get you into heaven. No more than going to McDonald's makes you a Big Mac. Now, if you eat enough french fries, it's gonna change you. Stick around here long enough and start eating enough of the God's word, it's gonna change you. [00:44:00] (45 seconds)  #AttendanceIsntFaith

But you have to take it. You have to put it inside. You have to take Jesus and and then take him inside, accept what he has to offer. But simply attending isn't gonna get you into heaven. Simply attending isn't gonna transform you. Bringing your kids to church is not the finish line. That's the starting point. The church is here to help support you as a parent, not to replace your role. Not to say, fix them. They're such a mess at home. Fix them. No. We're here to help you, but you have a calling on your life to raise them in the way they should go. [00:44:45] (39 seconds)  #ChurchIsTheStart

Transforming kids doesn't just come by pointing them to truthful information, but by living it out authentically. Our children need to see what growing with God actually looks like. Not just believing God, but if we believe in God, it should be changing us, and they need to see that. Last week, we talked about faith and how it's not just something we say, but it's something we live. That faith is seen. It's not just said. James two seventeen says, even so faith, if it has no works, it's dead, being by itself. [00:48:18] (40 seconds)  #FaithInAction