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Hey, welcome to the City Point 
Church podcast. 

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Thanks for joining us. 
Every day is an opportunity to 

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take hold of. 
So we hope this message inspires

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you and build your faith, but it
helps you have more of a God 

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perspective for your day. 
Enjoy. 

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I have a word in my heart, a 
word for the church this year, 

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which is absolutely awesome. 
And so the title of today's 

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message is Walking the Same 
path, Walking the same path. 

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Now this year as a church in 
every single department, we are 

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walking in the same direction, 
down the same path. 

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We aren't looking at a point 
saying I'm getting there, but 

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we're all taking our own pathway
to there. 

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We are literally tripping over 
each other down the path as we 

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walk on the same path in the 
same direction to the same goal 

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or vision for this church. 
Immense unity. 

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This year we call it alignment. 
So in the life of this church, 

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we as a church body Melon. 
I have been the location pastors

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of this great church for five 
years now, and God has been just

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bringing more and more clarity 
every single year of how He 

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wants to move. 
And this is for us the year of 

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alignment and the year of 
Disciple ship. 

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So this year we're not thinking 
about doing more. 

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We are thinking about where we 
are going together. 

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So it's not about just more 
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bigger meetings, all of that. 
What we're doing this year is as

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a church, which means you and I,
we are looking at where are we 

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going together? 
Psalms 133, verses 1 and verse 3

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says how good and how pleasant 
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together in unity. 
Verse 3 For there the Lord 

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commands the blessing. 
Can you say I am blessed because

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I'm in unity with the church? 
Amen. 

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So that's where your blessing is
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If you're not walking in the 
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ask the question, do I know the 
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Do I believe what the church 
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And I am I not following the 
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Am I part of the church? 
Because when you bring your 

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whole world into alignment there
the Lord will bring blessing for

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you. 
When we say as pastor Mel has 

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already this morning that as a 
church we exist to bring 

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spiritual and social 
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This is not a slogan. 
We are not painting it on the 

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walls. 
We need this to get into our 

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hearts, into our spirits, into 
the purpose of why I, not even 

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the church now, why I exist, is 
to bring spiritual and social 

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transformation to our city. 
Not a slogan, it's a calling. 

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It's a calling this morning. 
It's God saying I want to move 

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through this church, the 
individuals and as a corporate 

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church body through you to bring
change to your neighborhoods, to

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your schools, to your 
universities and to your 

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workplaces. 
Do you believe that this 

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morning? 
Let me say this, Do you believe 

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that God can do that this 
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Do you believe that God can use 
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See, that's really where it is, 
where it's at. 

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That's where unity really is. 
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walk of growing up in the 
church, I have found that every 

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church believes God can do it. 
But when the question is posed, 

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can God do it through me? 
That is a real question. 

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Well, I'm falling over here. 
That's a real question. 

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I remember when God 1st called 
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the realm of miracles and then 
that just lingered with me and I

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was just like, man, I just got 
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assume he prays, you know, to 
have that anointing. 

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I've just got to pray 24 hours a
day and I couldn't do that. 

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And so I just, I was always 
striving and then we became 

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pastors in the church when 
Pastor Rick was still the 

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location pastor. 
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And, and so I started to tap 
into the realities more mentally

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and spiritually of God, like 
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through worship or when Pastor 
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And then we became the location 
pastors and God's like, there we

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are. 
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And what I realized is always 
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Does this make sense? 
And so you'll notice that our 

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miracle services every year, I 
don't pray much for people, our 

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leadership and our pastors in 
the church, God's using all of 

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them. 
And so the step between faith in

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God being God, in faith of God 
being my God, then the faith 

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level it requires for God to be 
the God that operates through my

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life. 
Now we're talking. 

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Does this make sense? 
And let me tell you here this 

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morning as you grab this vision 
to bring spiritual and social 

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transformation, spiritual, which
means for you personally to 

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allow the Spirit of the God to 
break things and for you to come

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in partnership with the God and 
the Spirit of God of God. 

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Yes, use me. 
I will do it. 

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I will actually do it. 
I will be the one. 

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I will lay the hands, I will 
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I will conquer fear through 
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I'll do whatever, but use me. 
And that spiritual like, like 

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binding thing breaks open in 
your life and freedom comes in 

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that area. 
And then you move from that to 

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this belief. 
You're you're joining Pastor 

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Rachel's prayer teaching course.
And you and you come to the 

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Sunday night services and allow 
the edification of the Saints 

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for the work of the ministry 
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you start believing for 
spiritual breakthrough over the 

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community, but you don't believe
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You're in the do company now, 
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God use me. 
I will do it. 

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And So what you start to do is 
you my phone's down there, but 

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in my phone, I've got this. 
I saved the a Safari Google page

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to my home screen that has all 
the spiritual strongholds that 

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the Bible says by name. 
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this community, God, I break the
deaf dumb spirit. 

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God, I break the spirit of 
divinity over the city and I 

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just start going through them 
because we want to specie 

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spiritual transformation. 
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And so this is the church in the
do action in the proactive 

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church, not consumers consumer 
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That's a weird word. 
But anyway, it should be in the 

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dictionary. 
You'll find it. 

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You'll find it. 
Come tell me, not a consumer age

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church, but rather a proactive 
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The Holy Spirit doesn't give you
a sword to have shiny on a 

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mantelpiece at home, but he also
didn't give you a sword and say 

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now go dictate to the community.
He gave you a sword because we 

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fight a spiritual battle. 
We don't fight against flesh and

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blood, but against 
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Church, would we unite in 2026 
and say I am partnering with 

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you, God, you have already 
partnered with me, but we are 

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going to see spiritual 
transformation over this great 

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city of ours in Jesus name. 
Let me tell you this isn't just 

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a great city, this is your great
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We have to fight for it and we 
fight for it in a spiritual 

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battle. 
We get out the sword of the 

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spirit. 
We already got the shoes of 

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peace on when we got out of bed 
this morning and we we start to 

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fight a spiritual battle. 
We open it up in Google and we 

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find out what the spiritual 
strongholds are over our 

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community and we stand in the 
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You don't feel anything but you 
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You might not feel anything, but
the Spirit is shaking because 

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the Saints, the church is alive.
The living Word of God is part 

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of the living church, and we are
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it in the spiritual realm. 
But we also want to see social 

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transformation. 
That's where we edification of 

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the Saints for the work of the 
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Now we go out there to work and 
we start to bring social 

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We don't stand or we don't 
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It's so hard, I understand that.
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dictate to us and our world. 
You might feel like you can't 

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change everything in your 
school, everything in your 

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university, or everything in 
your workplace, but you can 

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change it for one person. 
You can change it for yourself. 

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As a star, I am strong enough in
the things of the Lord man. 

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I am strong enough in the 
identity of who I am as a a man.

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Women in the house. 
My man is strong enough in his 

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identity for me to follow. 
And I'm going to allow that 

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process to come to fruition so 
that he's, once again, you know,

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that the male issue that we have
in the world today is not just a

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male issue, it's also a female 
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We have to allow the man to 
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And listen, you might say I 
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doesn't feel that you allow him 
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He actually has to feel it. 
He has to know it and he has to 

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be encouraged in him. 
But man, I'm calling out of you 

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today this spiritual 
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this social transformation we 
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us, US men. 
We have to rise up not just in 

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the church, but in our houses, 
in our workplaces, in the 

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community, wherever we are, no 
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if you're a male. 
We need to rise up. 

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And we need to say it's not rise
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Like I use a rule doing this 
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No rise up in example in your 
example application of who you 

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are saying I will not be part of
this, but we also rise up in the

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spirit realm and as things are 
happening around you, you're 

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breaking their power in the 
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You know, I, I drive my car like
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see people on the streets. 
I say God, I call that young boy

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to church. 
Salvation is his. 

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I call that man to church. 
Salvation is theirs. 

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I walk to shopping centres like 
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I'm just praying in my mind and 
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I, I pray for every stronghold 
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the street. 
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I break its power. 
It has no place in my city. 

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You can only declare that if you
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basis. 
See, I can declare that because 

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every day I'm out there breaking
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See the devil knows me by name. 
Would he know you by name? 

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Would he know you by name? 
I love what Paul said in the 

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scriptures. 
Sounds arrogant but it's really 

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not because I just did it so it 
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But he said I wish you all 
prayed as much as I do. 

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I wish you all had authority 
over this community like I do. 

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I can only say that it's not an 
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I'm calling this church in 2026 
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We will see spiritual and social
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it because I believe with all of
my heart, we've done preparation

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for five years in this church 
amongst our own lives. 

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We we have done like if I said 
raise your hand, I'm pretty sure

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at least half of us would raise 
our hand. 

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We've done so much spiritual 
preparation in this church over 

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five years that I bet that you 
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what are we doing? 
Well, here we go. 

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We're calling God's border 
clear. 

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It's spiritual transformation, 
social transformation. 

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Wherever you are, bring social 
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Let me tell you, I've, I shared 
this at our leaders retreat a 

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week ago. 
All the leaders of the church, 

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we get together for a week and 
and talk through the future of 

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the church and I have often got 
up here and I need to repent 

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today. 
I'm going to take some water 

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first and I've talked about 
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and because when I think of 
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thought process with it. 
And I've just spoken about what 

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street corner preaching isn't. 
It's not dictatorship, it's not 

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telling people they're going to 
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We feel like that because the 
fire of God is inside of us. 

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But love doesn't sound like 
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And so that's not what the 
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But I believe God wants to bring
transformation to old fashioned 

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ideas. 
And let me tell you this, I say 

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that because of this. 
It's not street corner, I 

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understand. 
But everywhere you go, Jesus is 

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on your lips. 
Melanie's dad is just like the 

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gold at this. 
Oh, let me pray for you brother.

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You know they'll just talk Jesus
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They're just like, whoa, what's 
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He knows what what? 
They're weird, but oh, give me 

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more. 
They're in an hours 

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conversations leading them to 
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Shane and Robin are like this 
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people to Jesus. 
Let's have Jesus on our lips. 

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Let's declare the goodness of 
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Let's shout it from the 
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Amen. 
Let's make sure I have this 

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thing in my life that if you 
enter my sphere, my world, 

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right, don't expect cushion. 
You know, you just don't expect 

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me to not say truth. 
I'll say it in love, but it's 

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got to be truth laced in love 
where it's got to be like Jesus 

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can heal this, You know, Would 
you like me to pray? 

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You know, just ask the 
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You get denied 2029 times, but 
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He wants to see some miracles 
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So give us some 29 times this 
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Amen, Amen. 
It's 30 ish days in a month. 

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Should have a miracle a month. 
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where there is no vision, the 
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There's no perishing today. 
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for this church, don't let your 
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Put vision back into their 
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The truth is people don't lack 
effort, they lack clarity. 

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People don't lack intention, 
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purpose or the vision. 
So today this isn't hearing 

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Pastor Greg. 
This is like go home, download 

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Podbean and listen to this 
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have to get this in US so that 
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If you're, if you're going to be
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who we are as a church, just 
join the mission. 

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If, if, if the church moves and 
it impacts your life, if you're 

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going to dress your kids up to 
come every single Sunday, if 

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you're going to go to a 
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week or creative team, just get 
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Be part of it. 
Like let's, let's, let's get 

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this in us. 
Because without vision, you will

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perish on the inside. 
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flow. 
Sickness flows through 

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stagnation. 
Pastor John said it this 

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morning, if you stay in bed, 
guess what? 

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A month later, you're still 
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But at some point in spiritually
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and put those on the ground and 
say, God, I don't have the 

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strength, but I believe you do 
and start to work those 

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spiritual muscles up of the 
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Meaning in life comes from your 
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Some people here may feel tired 
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That was 2025. 
But it's not that. 

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You should be better at doing 
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It's time to get focus and 
clarity back into your world, to

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move forward towards what 
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invite this morning to bring 
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transformation to our city. 
Not just to know the words, but 

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to bring it every day you wake 
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I'm bringing it today, God, God,
what's what's on the agenda 

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today? 
Because I'm bringing it today, 

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going to work. 
I'm bringing it to my city 

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today. 
What is it, God? 

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Is it spiritual? 
Do I have to say something 

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because I'm bringing it today? 
Can we all say out loud right 

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now? 
I'm bringing it. 

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Let's say it louder. 
Once again, I'm bringing it. 

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We're bringing it, OK Amen. 
We aren't talking about it. 

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We're not thinking about it. 
We're not loving Pastor Gray and

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Mel because they've got this 
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the sound and the melodic flow 
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No, no, no, we're saying I am 
bringing it. 

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I don't know what Pastor Gray is
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it. 
I don't know what the church is 

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doing today. 
They might be sleeping, but I'm 

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bringing it. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
So let's be walking the same 

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path and unmistakably influence 
our world for good and for God. 

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I believe as we grow 
individually, the church grows 

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corporately. 
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If you and I allow God to do 
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mature us, to redefine who we 
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us and all the things that that 
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influence on others. 
We become clearer in our 

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doctrines. 
We become more forgiving, we 

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become more caring, we become 
more and more like Jesus, and we

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become more in love with Jesus. 
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church life when the church is 
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And This Is Us in 2026 
discipleship. 

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It's common these days that 
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main import to growth in the 
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the Lord. 
Sunday services are not a tiny 

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part of what biblical 
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They are only a tiny part of 
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Jesus had 12 close disciples 
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We are called biblically to grow
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We are called biblically to grow
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Lord. 
It's not a Sunday gathering 

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thing. 
It's not a listening to the word

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and and in thinking of that, 
that message today was great 

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Pastor Gray and we we do that or
I listened to your message last 

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week. 
We are called to be transformed 

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by it. 
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You can only be transformed by 
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of God. 
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the the word of God is 
foolishness to people who don't 

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have the Spirit of God. 
It's, it's like a book of books.

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It's just like there's so many 
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start to say things like all 
the, the doctrines don't line up

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and there's, there's all these 
things that just I can't make 

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sense of. 
You say this and then you mean 

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this later on. 
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Testament, when people talk like
that, I'm just like, man, do you

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want to be baptized in the Holy 
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Like then the Spirit of life, 
the word becomes living and we 

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don't see cross doctrines, we 
see life. 

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And then when you see it as the 
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oh, that scripture in the Old 
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application now and I understand
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different and we start to pull 
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But that's the Holy Spirit 
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Every time you get a revelation 
when you read, that's the Holy 

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Spirit flowing through you. 
You don't need tingles to know 

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the Holy Spirit's with you. 
You know, you read the Word of 

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God and you just feel peace. 
Holy Spirit's through me today. 

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You know when you read the word 
of God and you, you feel like 

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you can conquer the world, all 
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you today. 
This is the power of the gospel.

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Amen. 
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everybody to walk on the path of
discipleship and this is done 

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through discipleship groups and 
one-on-one discipleship. 

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Second Timothy 22 and the things
that you have heard from me 

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among many witnesses commit 
these to faithful men who will 

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be able to teach others also 
discipleship. 

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Timothy here is talking about 
multiplicational discipleship, 

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where one person teaches another
who teaches another 

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multiplicational discipleship. 
Amen. 

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So as a as we grow individually,
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I am, but I'm also talking we as
I grow, I influence those in my 

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discipleship group to go grow. 
Or the more I'm going. 

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Let me tell you, I disciple 
people, right? 

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Every every week I'm discipling 
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I don't go, yeah, because I've 
got it all together. 

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So I've got stuff to teach you. 
If I'm discipling someone, I'm 

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being discipled myself. 
You can be the pastor of a 

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church and still need 
discipleship. 

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Hey man, everyone's like, hey 
man, discipleship is not a 

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program. 
Discipleship is not a gathering.

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It's a rhythm. 
It's a pathway. 

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It's what makes the vision real.
Discipleship is not mentorship. 

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Discipleship is focused to 
become more like Jesus more than

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becoming a better practising 
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Discipleship is designed 
biblically so we become more 

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like Jesus and more in love with
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Jesus Christ. 
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of ministry. 
When a person is discipled, a 

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person can then disciple. 
You cannot disciple someone if 

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you've never been discipled 
yourself because what are you 

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disciple in them to through and 
who for? 

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This is a corporate initiative 
that needs to be taken up 

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individually. 
Today, biblical discipleship is 

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focused on Jesus to become more 
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So as this church embraces 
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embracing life groups where we 
gather without being 

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transformed. 
This is why we are now moving 

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the word or the term to 
discipleship groups is because 

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it says it for itself. 
This group is about 

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discipleship, not about bike 
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This is it's not a gathering on.
We aren't saying the church can 

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never gather, have friends, but 
we are saying this, those who 

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grow together will want to hang 
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You always want to hang with and
have barbecues with and go to 

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the beach with people who 
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trust and they can trust you, 
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That's where the best wholesome 
fun and joy of life comes from 

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as a church. 
God never commissioned the 

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church or even Christians to go 
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barbecues. 
He never commissioned the church

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to be so social. 
It's ridiculous. 

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The devil does that to the 
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That's why when they think of 
hell, they're happy to go to 

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hell because it's the best 
barbecue they've ever had. 

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You've all heard that, right? 
The enemy is trying to make the 

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world a social world, but God is
trying to make the world a 

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Kingdom world with a future. 
The Bible says to go into all 

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the world and make disciples. 
Edification for the work of the 

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ministry. 
Edification is one small element

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of discipleship, but 
discipleship, the smaller the 

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group gets, the better and more 
powerful the discipleship 

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journey will be. 
This is good church bringing 

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some clarity for us this year. 
We are embracing a new culture 

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of growth in our spiritual 
formation and personal influence

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that exemplifies Jesus Christ as
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We're embracing this new growth 
this year and really this whole 

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process. 
And I can't wait in two weeks 

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I've got a message that I'm 
busting to preach. 

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But the reality, this whole 
process starts when we first 

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give our lives to Jesus Christ, 
when we believe in our heart and

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confess with our mouth that 
Jesus is Lord, we become 

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Christians in that very moments.
There's no process, there's no 

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hoops you got to jump. 
We, we, we learned this a lot. 

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If you've been here before, it's
not performance based or 

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behavioural based, being a 
Christian or a child of God. 

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In fact, every human being 
that's ever existed is a child 

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of God, just some reject His 
authority as their Father and 

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others, the church, accept who 
He is as their Father, and they 

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give their lives back to Him. 
But God is always prepared and 

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waiting for and encouraging and 
stirring people to come back to 

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Him. 
And when we come back to Him, He

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gives us the greatest thing 
ever, the living Holy Bible. 

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And this is where discipleship 
starts. 

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You know, the Bible teaches us 
that the Apostle Paul was 

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disciple through the Holy 
Spirit. 

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Now there's a whole Siaga around
that and massive story around 

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that. 
But the Holy Spirit then comes 

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into your life and he 
strengthens you when he he leads

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you that that's the worship team
walking out, that they're not 

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walking out. 
This is a great message this 

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morning, but they're not walking
out on me right. 

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I I'll encourage myself because 
she's a pretty quiet this 

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morning, but I know it's just 
thinking in. 

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And so when you give your life 
to God, you, you start the the 

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beginning journeys of a 
discipleship journey. 

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And the church, the Christians 
have a responsibility to to make

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sure that discipleship journey 
gets more thorough, gets 

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stronger and more saturated to 
help you become more in love 

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with Jesus and more like Jesus 
because he is the source of 

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life. 
Amen.