This Is Arrows

``How many of us want God to show us where he's taking us before we take the step in that direction? Come on. Raise your hands. Yeah. We've convinced ourselves that we need clarity from God before we can step out in courage. Listen. Clarity is often the enemy of courage. God, I don't know what step two looks like. I know. Ain't it great? I'm not telling you what step two looks like yet. I just want you to take step one. That's courage. [00:20:22] (34 seconds)  #StepOneCourage

And if the holy spirit is not here, it's useless. So when people ask, when are we gonna get a building? Here's my honest answer. When God decides that walls will serve the mission better than wheels. When God decides what's gonna serve the mission, his mission, better than wheels is walls, I believe he's gonna do something amazing. He's gonna open doors. He's gonna create ways. Why? Because he's literally been doing that since day one. Right now, wheels seem to be serving his mission well. [00:34:42] (41 seconds)  #MissionOverBuilding

You forget why you started in the first place, and that is to reach people for Jesus. It's just really easy to do. I'm not saying it can't be done otherwise. It's just really easy to fall into that trap. And so I I'm not anti building. I would love for us to have a building one of these days. And I know this much, being portable right now reminds us that the church is not a place we own. It's a mission that we live out. [00:30:08] (29 seconds)  #ChurchIsAMission

Portable church makes disciples, not consumers. People who show up to a portable church, they don't show up wondering if they're gonna be blown away by your facilities. Right? They're like, oh, they meet in an elementary school. Okay. I think I kinda know what that's gonna be. No one's rolling through those doors being like, you think they have a two story water slide in their kids' department? Right? Those are awesome. They're not really expecting that when they walk in. But what's interesting about that is that's kind of the people you want walking through the door. [00:33:47] (35 seconds)  #NoFrillsFaith

It is by grace you have been saved. God demanded perfection. You aren't perfect. Jesus was. Jesus paid the price that we could not pay. Lived the life that we could not live. Satisfied the perfection that God had towards the atonement of sin that we could not even come close to providing, And because we have faith in Jesus now, God sees us as righteous. That's the good news. That's the good news of the gospel. [00:14:01] (35 seconds)  #SavedByGrace

We have been commissioned by Jesus to go and make disciples just like everything he said. Making disciples is the thing that we are to do. It's not one of the things. It is the thing. Everything else that we do assists in us making disciples. So first thing I want us to look at this morning is our foundation. Our foundation as a church is to make disciples. [00:04:12] (29 seconds)  #MakeDisciplesFirst

And you know what that makes you? A consumer, not a disciple. And so the question for all of us, there's really only two options for everybody here this morning. And those two options are this, you can come to church or you can become the church. That's it. That's the option for all of us. You can come to church or you can become the church. Who are you becoming? Let me pray for us. [00:38:20] (31 seconds)  #BecomeTheChurch

Everyone is. What does that look like for us? This is the heartbeat of Arrow's Church. Everyone's welcome. This means that the divorced person is welcome. Why? Because they're not always welcome in every church. The skeptic is welcome. The person who doesn't even know that they believe in god is welcome. The person that is high on life or high on something else is welcome. And I gotta let you know, God loves you too much to keep you in whatever it is that you're in sometimes, but you're welcome. [00:11:19] (33 seconds)  #EveryoneIsWelcome