Reach City Church Sunday Service | 03/29/2026

Everyone needs continued support, and we must be willing to endure in that regardless of the shortcomings that fall on people while in process. Because without the support, listen, they will fall even worse. Imagine to go back to the roof. You got a roof. It's leaking. Okay. The leaking roof is bad. Nobody want a leaking roof. But now imagine if you pull all the support that's holding the roof up because it's leaking like, oh, man. That's a leak. We up out of here. When I was a full collapse, full destruction. [01:32:22] (26 seconds)  #SupportDontAbandon

Let let me give you something to think about. If they talk about people to you, they will talk about you to people. That's a basic principle. Anybody that gossips that I know, I don't tell my business to. Because I'm the fool if they tell my business. My I'm I'm looking in the mirror. You dumb, Tex. Why are you you dumb. You knew they talk too much. They can't keep their bullshit about nothing, and you thought they were gonna keep your tea. [01:19:29] (27 seconds)  #NoGossipTrustWisely

Believe in all things is not a call to ignore discernment and clear lies. K? It don't mean we validate everything somebody say. Are they emotional story? A lie is still a lie. Untruth is still untruth. So when Paul says believes all things, he is not talking about literally. Whatever they say, just believe it. Act like you don't know the truth and just be like, that's true. No. That's the the world is in that place, not us. Contextually, think about what we've been talking about. And Augustine puts it this way. Love believes the best about people. [01:34:57] (35 seconds)  #BelieveBestWithDiscernment

when you don't support and walk with somebody and make them feel like they have the room to grow, that's exactly what people do. They draw fake fruit on their tree. They put fake fruit on their tree because they like, this is what they need to walk with me, so let me pretend. But guess what? Eventually, you can only eventually, you know. And then now they seven years and they walk, and they feel like they starting all over because they're crumbling. Because it's for the whole thing that they walk, they've been putting on a mask feeling like they had to put fake food on a tree for people to walk with them and talk with them and love them. They never were able to show up as their authentic self. [01:37:38] (36 seconds)  #AuthenticOverFakeFruit

And so now that we're here, we're deal with this. But we're not gonna discount they whole walk and start running around the church trying to shame them for whatever imperfections or whatever failures are happening in this season of their sanctification or this season of their pruning. No. We cover that and call for grace for them to grow. So, again, we're not hiding. We're or we're not addressing sin, but we aren't publicizing the imperfections of others as they're in process. [01:15:37] (27 seconds)  #GraceNotPublicShame

but what Christ does for us is he for his church is he presents us, though, as having no spot or having no wrinkle. Instead, he instead of uncovering, he covers us against the accuser of the brethren who is trying to point out every flaw and every wrinkle and every spot to get the father to kinda disown us or denounce us, but Christ instead keeps standing in the gap, keeps presenting our best foot forward, not ignoring our imperfections, but washing us with the word which speaks to what? Sanctification. [01:14:20] (30 seconds)  #ChristCoversUs

So then when they get the courage not to do that, but to try to, as Kareem says, not die in the dark, but live in the light, and they try to bring that wrong to the light, and then they hear about it by a bunch of people that they never told, what do you think that does for them? That makes them say, I'll never expose anything again. And so now when they fall, they fall in isolation. And now that they're in isolation, the enemy starts to grab hold of them. And now that he's grabbed hold of them, now he turns that isolation into self destruction. [01:21:13] (30 seconds)  #ExposureLeadsToIsolation

We are expecting something, and when they don't give it, we put them out there and say, then figure it out on your own, and people will never figure it out on their own. A healthy community understands stages and development, which means you have to make sure that people you give act that you give people access to your walk to be able to help you mature. Now let me say this too. Nothing kills endurance like unbelief and hopelessness. If I lose hope that people will change, I'll never stay in there with them. Belief must be anchored in hope. [01:43:40] (32 seconds)  #CommunityStagesMatter