May 3, 2026 | Trad. Worship | Your Algorithm - Wk 4: John 15:4-5, Luke 6:40

``See, the world forms through reaction, and I believe the church forms through transformation. Watch everything that you do. Watch your your algorithms. Watch what pops up. Watch what the press does. Watch what the newspapers say. Everything. The world forms through reaction, but the church forms through transformation. They are not trying to transform you out there. They are trying for you to react. So you feed their algorithm. You feed the money. You feed their authority. [00:50:45] (39 seconds)  #worldReactsChurchTransforms

and and his thoughts begin to change. He notices that his desires and reactions to think of the world change and one day he realizes, he says, I'm not just learning things, I'm actually becoming someone different. And that might be any one of our stories. That could have been our story long ago. I don't know. But why is that important? And why could that be our story? Because it's not just about finding better content. This young man found a place, a place that reshaped his yeses. [00:54:22] (35 seconds)  #BecomingThroughBelonging

Not everything you see is true, and we'll talk more about that and how our brain works. But here is why that should matter to us. Because it's not just about what we see. The algorithm is shaping who we are becoming more than we might even know, more than we might understand. And over time, it forms our hearts. That's why we see the outrage that we see in today's society. It's forming our hearts. And that's why Peter says in one of his epistles, he says, be alert and sober. Understand what's going on in your life, what's going on around you spiritually. [00:36:28] (46 seconds)  #AlgorithmShapesTheHeart

What keeps your attention the longest? That is what it is designed around. What keeps your attention the longest? And how it works is a like here, well, that has a small little value. A reply here or a long view here, that has more of a value. And then when you have interaction bath back and forth arguments or comments, wow, that's an exponential value. And that feeds the algorithm. That's exactly how it works. Over time, what it does is it learns what keeps you engaged, and it begins to feed you more of it. And hear me on this, it's not because it's true, it's because it works. Just remember that. [00:35:38] (49 seconds)  #AttentionIsTheProduct

So think about it like this. We are transformed by what they call micro compliances. And micro compliances are defined like this, small, almost unnoticeable yeses throughout your day. Click, pause, watch, react. K? And we talked about drifting last week, but we don't drift into who we become. We micro comply our way into it is what we do. Experts say, slowly, all these yeses, these little yeses throughout the day, throughout the week, throughout our life. So the question of the day is this, what are we saying yes to over and over again? [00:39:55] (50 seconds)  #MicroYesesMatter

And the second thing I think Jesus is getting at is formation happens through practice. That's the training part in Luke six, fully trained. He's not just trying to inspire you. Oh, that sounded great, Jesus. I'm inspired. This is imitation language. Discipleship isn't admiration. Okay? Discipleship is imitation. Doing what your rabbi has asked you to do. Following your rabbi, acting like your rabbi. And now the third thing is formation happens through repetition. We know that. We've talked a little bit about training our minds, our brains, but what repeats remains. What remains shapes us. [00:45:26] (41 seconds)  #FormationThroughPractice

So vitally important. And Jesus tells us, I think, in these scriptures a few things. I'm just gonna name them, number them out for you. The first is formation happens through proximity. That's what he's getting at. That word remain is like, you know, stay, dwell, abide your scripture might say. Connect. We talk about connect. Connecting people to Jesus is our mission statement. This is our mission statement verse in John 15. See, we don't become someone we occasionally listen to. Alright? We we become like someone we stay close to, who trains us, we're in proximity to, we're connected to. [00:44:41] (45 seconds)  #AbideProximityTransforms

As we close, we I just wanna say we live in a world that is full of influencing voices, and we say yes to something every single day. Maybe those micro decisions, we do it all the time. And the goal is not just to hear about Christ. It's not to hear more content about Christ. It's to become like Jesus. And so we need a place where Jesus is not just talked about, but a place where life is formed in him. And so I say Jesus is the foundation and and the formation station is his church, but we're also called to then go and live out the mission. May we do that. May we allow that to happen in our life. [00:55:20] (54 seconds)  #ChurchAsFormationStation