Open Scripture, Form Community, Share Jesus with Everyone

You wanna hold it there with that song for a second? That that gives us something to think about. I know if, you're you're kinda new to this thing called church or Jesus, singing about blood is probably the weirdest thing we can do. Alright. Go ahead. Grab a seat. But this would not make, like, the top 40 list. Right? People sing about love. People sing about power. But when we sing about the blood here in the church, that that that is the story about love. That is the story about power. [00:28:49] (23 seconds)  #BloodIsLove

But the faith and the baptism went together. Bath then that's that's what it meant. Someone reached out to me this week. Like, I I don't get this thing. Like, I got faith. So do I really need baptism? Doesn't Jesus just accept me because of faith? And the answer is yes. But faith and baptism are synonymous in scriptures. That's that's where faith came out. No one no one believed in something without, like, going through this baptism to say, like, I'm really, really a part of it. [01:01:10] (25 seconds)  #FaithAndBaptism

The Messiah is Jesus. It's the promise of God. I'm gonna save the world with only one person who could and only one person who would, and that's his name's gonna be Jesus. So which one is it? Are we spreading the word or are we spreading Jesus? And the answer is yes. The story of Philip is that they they always go hand in hand. You don't get who Jesus was without getting into the scriptures that explained what God was going to do with him. [00:36:46] (28 seconds)  #JesusAndTheWord

That that God cared about what was going on on our inside. What what needed to change on the inside so that we could face everything on the outside? And he said, I will give my son, and then my son will give his life. It wasn't pretty. It was an execution. There was blood involved. But because God gave his blood, you and I got forgiveness. That's where we put our faith. That's what we're doing here in church. [00:29:14] (22 seconds)  #BloodBringsForgiveness

Start with scripture, form community around it. And I can name at least three junior and senior groups. Sometimes one on one, sometimes four is in five, but they're opening scripture forming community around it. Like, when I say next gen is the now gen here at at Lake Pointe Church, it's not because, like, we're trying to groom them so, like, one day they could be leaders in the faith. They're leading right now. Grown ups, we gotta start doing what high schoolers are doing every single day. [00:51:27] (25 seconds)  #ScriptureFormsCommunity

And next thing you know, 50 students right in a public high school hallway are meeting on a weekly basis. Sometimes they start with, like, a real spiritual thing, like, how do you read the bible for yourself? Other times they start with a real social thing, like, how do you deal with anxiety? And then they go back to the scriptures, but every single time they get together is based on the principle, if I open the scripture, community will get formed around it. [00:50:20] (22 seconds)  #YouthScriptureCommunity

to make sure that you could actually hang out with with the queen. They they chopped off part of your male anatomy, which is really a terrible situation, but at the same time, it, like, let you get elevated on the social ladder to the tippity top spot. You are, like, the personal attendant to the queen of the land. Like, that's who this guy is. He's a big deal with tons of money flowing in and out, power, influence. Alright? And so, like, if anyone doesn't need God, it's this guy. [00:54:58] (28 seconds)  #EvenTheEliteNeedGod

So I guess what I'm saying is if if the story of Philip in Samaria with the sorcerer tells you, never call anyone too likely because because their life is they they don't have it all together. I'm also telling you the story of Philip with the Ethiopian eunuch is to not call anyone too unlikely because their life is so well put together. Everyone has part of their story that needs Jesus written into it. And the way you write it is to open up conversations, open up scriptures, and get to relate on how Jesus means something to each of you. [00:59:57] (35 seconds)  #EveryoneNeedsJesus