Reflection & Vision - Pastor Randy and Pastor Crystal

``But what he does is he leaves he leaves the jar with the fleas, with the lid on for a period of time. And a couple days later, he comes back to the fleas in this jar. He must have put some type of food or something in there. But he puts he he comes back and then he observes these fleas in this jar, and what he notices is they have conditioned themselves to no longer hit their head on the lid of the jar. Still jumping, but they've conditioned themselves because who wants to bang their head over and over and over again. Right? So they've conditioned themselves just to jump, just to under the height of the lid on the jar. So then what the scientist does is he takes the lid off. And guess what happens? They don't jump out because they have conditioned themselves to know that there's a lid there. And so they still feel that even though the lid has been removed, that they've conditioned themselves this way to jump only the height of where that lid was. [01:27:09] (70 seconds)  #UnlearnLimits

The ability to remain under is the meaning of the word. Under what? Under the weight of whatever life has in store. Learning to hold your breath like a navy seal that can perform tasks that no regular human without training can, Endurance. [01:23:30] (28 seconds)  #EndureUnderPressure

So what we have walked through, what we have faced in just different things up until this point, God has been developing something in us that only comes through trial, that only comes through testing, that only comes through times of difficulty, that only comes through facing opposition. Endurance is being built. Perseverance is being built. Hupo Monet is being developed in your life. [01:24:04] (30 seconds)  #EnduranceThroughTrials

Because I do believe that we are going to continue to grow spiritually, but we're also gonna grow numerically because every number, not that we're focused on that, we're not trying to build a castle here, we're not building a business, but every number is a person, is alive. A life that is once walking in darkness. And and and now the Lord grabs them and and has a place where where the Lord trusts to bring them and where they can grow and mature in the Lord. And so that's our vision. [01:15:15] (30 seconds)  #NumbersArePeople

So that's why we're very intentional to do things like church in the park and just different events together. And especially now that we're in two services, we we are gonna be very intentional this year to to make sure that we're doing things together as a church because we don't want a morning church and an afternoon church. That's not how we want. We are we are one body of Christ. So hospital family and an army, that is just the equipping. Right? And it should be where we are welcoming people in and going out, evangelizing, pursuing people like like our motto says, and and bringing them in just as they are. And they they begin to be healed, restored, welcomed into a family where they can begin to thrive, and then are being trained to become the army of the Lord themselves. Right? [01:11:06] (46 seconds)  #OneBodyOneMission

Be the hospital that you've been even in a greater way. Be that place of healing and restoration, but don't let it stop there. I wanna make you whole. So I want you to focus also on being a tight knit family, a community, inwardly, a place where the people that are coming that are broken and wounded and they're beginning this healing transformation, they are welcomed into a family, the family of God. [01:10:37] (29 seconds)  #HospitalOfHealing

what we were hearing from the Lord is we will always be that, but there are some other things that God wants us to really focus on because healing and restoration, we we all need that and people need that. And so I I attribute that to, like, a hospital. We need to be a hospital where people can come and the Lord can begin that work in their lives. [01:09:51] (23 seconds)  #BeyondRestoration

and you'll you'll see that, you'll begin to see that even more I'm around here. But some of the things that we did was, you know, we went to two services. And part of doing that is the preparation for what we know that God intends to do. You have to create room. You have to have faith, you know, to to say, alright, lord. This is what we're hearing. This is what you're showing us down the road. So we're gonna do everything we can to be obedient and to prepare for that expansion. [01:14:46] (30 seconds)  #CreateRoomToGrow