Transplanted Together: Growing in God's Grace
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "I want to encourage you that if you trust the master gardener, he will transplant you to a place where you could begin to thrive and bear fruit. As you trust God. Israel was this fragile vine. It was actually being choked by the bondage of slavery. It was growing population-wise. It was growing and growing and growing, but its potential was dying, because it was mixed in with a group that looked down on these people. Can I just remind you all that we were all created equally before God?" [05:13]
2. "I always say, I've often said, I was baptized in dirty water. I was surrounded by some bad religious stuff. And I say that testimony here, and I'll say that for the rest of my life. Because that's just part of my testimony. And I'll own it. And I was surrounded by some not-so-good stuff, some toxic Christianity. I got baptized in dirty water. But you know what? That might have been dirty, but Jesus made me clean. The blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus can wash you clean no matter where you are, where you came from, what your background is, what you've been through, however you've experienced all types of different abuse." [06:59]
3. "We're not committing to a lost cause, but to the savior of the lost. And that's the difference. That's the difference. Nevertheless, what's the mantra? Mantra? Mantra? One of them. But this is what I kept telling myself. Healing is my destiny. Healing is my family's destiny. Healing is my church's destiny. Because I serve a God who is my destiny. And I'm not going to heal. I'm He heals wounds. He heals the innermost things that cause you the most pain. Can somebody today just give your wounds to Jesus?" [30:59]
4. "I want to encourage you to trust the master gardener. I want to encourage you to let him lead you. I want to encourage you to let him guide you. The bondage is going to give way to a bloom because whatever God does, God does it. And it's beautiful. And it lasts. And the storms come and the storms come. And the storms come and the storms come. And the sun beats down on that little tender vine. And it threatens to wash it away. And the erosion comes and goes. But what God plants blooms. And he's planted your life for a purpose." [39:05]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We are a community of rebuilders. It gets torn down. We're going to rebuild again. When we stumble, we get back up, and we're going to let God rebuild again because that's what God does. We're going to rebuild again. We're going to rebuild again. God does. He has all the tools to work in your life to continue to help you to rebuild. And in life, unfortunately, you're going to go through phases where it feels like life is all falling apart. All I can tell you is that every single time it feels like that, I don't care what you're going through or what it is, every single time, God will give you the grace to rebuild again." [25:53]
2. "We didn't just deconstruct toxic parts of our faith. We reconstructed faith in Christ with all his beauty and his majesty. We toppled pedestals of top-down leadership, top-down leadership, without sacrificing honor and respect, and that's a rare combination. We believe in mutual flourishing. Experts say it's harder to lead a church than to run a business. Maybe some business owners would argue with me on that, but I'm going to say that's probably true." [27:29]
3. "I want to say that you were that person. You were the person that I believe the Lord was preparing and clearing the ground so that you could come into this place, be part of a faith-based community, a church, a faith community that loves each other. Because the heart of a Christian is to leave the 99 and go after the one. The real math is 100. Godly math is 100. And whenever there's one person missing, the numbers don't work. And we're going to constantly be people who are looking for those on the margins, those who felt left out of church, those who got hurt." [33:59]
4. "We were transplanted and now we're thriving. Can I hear you say amen? We went from a spiritual wilderness to an actual sanctuary. And Psalm 106, 13, 14, I got this last point. Just a little caution. It said they believed, speaking of the people of Israel, they believed its promise. They believed its promise. They believed its promises. They sang his praises, but they soon forgot, they soon forgot, they soon forgot what he had done. I'm not about to forget what God has done." [37:11]
5. "I'm going to offer this observation you don't think you've grown I've seen some of you grow a lot everybody on this platform you've grown so much in your faith growing isn't just a feeling sometimes you can feel it growing isn't just a feeling growing is facts and faith your roots are getting deeper stronger you're working on it as hard as you can let's commit our lives to it right now can we just bow our heads close our eyes if you'd like to i'm inviting you just to say lord my hands up thank you thank you for guiding my life and my hands up because i want you to lead me i want you to direct me i want to have deeper roots i want to bear fruit my hands up because i'm saying this morning that healing is my destiny." [42:15]
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1. "I want to encourage you that if you trust the master gardener, he will transplant you to a place where you could begin to thrive and bear fruit. As you trust God. Israel was this fragile vine. It was actually being choked by the bondage of slavery. It was growing population-wise. It was growing and growing and growing, but its potential was dying, because it was mixed in with a group that looked down on these people. Can I just remind you all that we were all created equally before God?" [05:13]
2. "I always say, I've often said, I was baptized in dirty water. I was surrounded by some bad religious stuff. And I say that testimony here, and I'll say that for the rest of my life. Because that's just part of my testimony. And I'll own it. And I was surrounded by some not-so-good stuff, some toxic Christianity. I got baptized in dirty water. But you know what? That might have been dirty, but Jesus made me clean. The blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus can wash you clean no matter where you are, where you came from, what your background is, what you've been through, however you've experienced all types of different abuse." [06:59]
3. "We're not committing to a lost cause, but to the savior of the lost. And that's the difference. That's the difference. Nevertheless, what's the mantra? Mantra? Mantra? One of them. But this is what I kept telling myself. Healing is my destiny. Healing is my family's destiny. Healing is my church's destiny. Because I serve a God who is my destiny. And I'm not going to heal. I'm He heals wounds. He heals the innermost things that cause you the most pain. Can somebody today just give your wounds to Jesus?" [30:59]
4. "I want to encourage you to trust the master gardener. I want to encourage you to let him lead you. I want to encourage you to let him guide you. The bondage is going to give way to a bloom because whatever God does, God does it. And it's beautiful. And it lasts. And the storms come and the storms come. And the storms come and the storms come. And the sun beats down on that little tender vine. And it threatens to wash it away. And the erosion comes and goes. But what God plants blooms. And he's planted your life for a purpose." [39:05]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We are a community of rebuilders. It gets torn down. We're going to rebuild again. When we stumble, we get back up, and we're going to let God rebuild again because that's what God does. We're going to rebuild again. We're going to rebuild again. God does. He has all the tools to work in your life to continue to help you to rebuild. And in life, unfortunately, you're going to go through phases where it feels like life is all falling apart. All I can tell you is that every single time it feels like that, I don't care what you're going through or what it is, every single time, God will give you the grace to rebuild again." [25:53]
2. "We didn't just deconstruct toxic parts of our faith. We reconstructed faith in Christ with all his beauty and his majesty. We toppled pedestals of top-down leadership, top-down leadership, without sacrificing honor and respect, and that's a rare combination. We believe in mutual flourishing. Experts say it's harder to lead a church than to run a business. Maybe some business owners would argue with me on that, but I'm going to say that's probably true." [27:29]
3. "I want to say that you were that person. You were the person that I believe the Lord was preparing and clearing the ground so that you could come into this place, be part of a faith-based community, a church, a faith community that loves each other. Because the heart of a Christian is to leave the 99 and go after the one. The real math is 100. Godly math is 100. And whenever there's one person missing, the numbers don't work. And we're going to constantly be people who are looking for those on the margins, those who felt left out of church, those who got hurt." [33:59]
4. "We were transplanted and now we're thriving. Can I hear you say amen? We went from a spiritual wilderness to an actual sanctuary. And Psalm 106, 13, 14, I got this last point. Just a little caution. It said they believed, speaking of the people of Israel, they believed its promise. They believed its promise. They believed its promises. They sang his praises, but they soon forgot, they soon forgot, they soon forgot what he had done. I'm not about to forget what God has done." [37:11]
5. "I'm going to offer this observation you don't think you've grown I've seen some of you grow a lot everybody on this platform you've grown so much in your faith growing isn't just a feeling sometimes you can feel it growing isn't just a feeling growing is facts and faith your roots are getting deeper stronger you're working on it as hard as you can let's commit our lives to it right now can we just bow our heads close our eyes if you'd like to i'm inviting you just to say lord my hands up thank you thank you for guiding my life and my hands up because i want you to lead me i want you to direct me i want to have deeper roots i want to bear fruit my hands up because i'm saying this morning that healing is my destiny." [42:15]
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