Welcome to the Illuminate Church podcast.
We hope today's message is encouraging to you.
We're in a series called Community.
Everyone say Community. Yeah.
And just to refresh at the top here, we are made for community.
That's why we were made by a community.
That's what we've been saying in the series, The community being
the Triune Godfather, Son and Holy Spirit.
Together they said let us make man in our image, and their
image is a community. And so we are supposed to
reflect that community and we cannot reflect the community by
ourselves. We were designed to live in
community. That's the really the point of
this whole series is to return everybody to original design.
And when we don't operate an original design, the design
doesn't work. It's like putting milk in your
gas can in your car. That's not how it was designed.
It will not work. And the same thing for you, you
may be feeling as you enter here today, Man, I'm a little off.
My marriage is hurting, my finances are hurting, my inner
self is hurting. And it may be because somewhere
the communal part of your life is not operating as it as it's
designed. That's the whole point of the
series. We just want to learn from God
how community works so that we can live in our optimal design.
Do you understand? It's like hitting the reset
button on a, you know, like you got a piece of electronics and
it has that little secret button.
You got to reach a paper clip up in there and press, and when you
press it, it goes back to its default setting.
Yeah, everyone, this is the participation part of the Yeah,
Yep, that's what we're doing. We're saying God reset us to
understand your design as it regards to community.
Last week we talked about the table.
We had a table appear if you were here, and the idea of the
table is that Jesus invites us to the unity of the body that is
his new community of faith. Anyone who believes in Jesus
becomes a part of the faith family forever where he is ABBA
father and we are his sons and daughters.
Amen, heirs to the throne, Amen. Unity also we reveal his glory
together. When the world sees the unified
body of Christ, it it, it beholds the glory of God like
whoa, these people look like, smell like, talk like, act like
together, the body of God, body of Christ.
And then finally, the table we said last week was about
revealing his transformational power, that when we live in
actual community, not doing faith alone in isolation, but
community of believers, the transformation really occurs in
US. And people can tell the
difference. They see it when we live inside
of this community. We said over and over, Jesus is
inviting you to the table. And I want to take it a step
further today and say this. If Jesus is inviting his table,
us to the table, then what should the church be doing?
And I'll put it in this sentence, who are you inviting
to the table? I mean, we just really just stop
there and say that's the message.
If Jesus is the one inviting us to the table and we are to be
like Jesus and to grow up into all things Christ, who is the
head of the church, then we as a church should be inviting people
to the table on the regular. It should be the forefront of
our minds. Today's message is called
Mission Defined Community. Community that finds its
identity based on its mission. You all know this.
People form communities around common interests and hobbies all
the time. Anyone have in their
neighborhood the cycling club, I see these, these people on its
celebrations where we live. They got to they're in their
bikes. These, this club is known for
spandex. That's what they're known for.
I don't wear spandex, so I don't cycle.
There you go. Then you have the runners club
and the idea of the club is that you have community, but running
and having community at the same time is impossible for me
because I can't talk when I'm running.
I can barely breathe when I'm running.
Anybody. Hallelujah.
So like other person's talking, like can we wait until we're
done with this 100 yard run? My dad's in a community.
The people in his community are called Lip Boomer and the
Canadian. These are the people that he
golfs with every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with a
bunch of about 20 other guys. They golf all that.
It's just his community. My mom's a part of a community.
It's called the Peacemakers Quilt Guild.
Any quilters in the House wait on it?
Yeah, my mom is an award-winning quilt maker and she made this
community of quilters. There's like a couple 100 of
people in this thing called the Peacemakers Quilt Guild.
My dad says they gather around the F word, which for him is
fabric, fabric, more fabric. Yeah.
So studies show that we are incredibly more likely to form
community friendships around activity more than any other
way. 42% of people find their friendships and their community
at work. If you love your work and the
other person loves their work, then you love working on this.
Like I'm like, we're cast members, we love Disney and
there's interest happens that. Just as an example, 31% of
people find their community based on sports or
extracurricular activities like golf or biking or running, and
17% of the people find their community based on hobbies and
interests like quilting or Pokémon, something like that.
In the 9:00 AM service, I said that and a guy here is like woo.
And he's like kind of funny. So these shared interests, when
we have them, it makes it way easier to form a common bond.
But we're just easily relate because we have a shared
identity. You find 2 guys who like the
Minnesota Vikings, they've never met each other, but all of a
sudden they're friends. Pastor Kim got Heather there.
Yeah. So when we have identity like
this in a community, we say things like this.
We are bikers, we are runners, we are golfers, we are quilters.
But what about the church? What are we churchers?
If you ever go to Cracker Barrel and you're sitting there, no,
wait. Just like, how do you all know
each other? Like, oh, we're churchers?
Like what in the world is a churcher?
I have no idea. So what is the common interest
of the church that we form our identity and we bond around?
Everyone's saying Jesus, I got a question for you.
What about the Father and the Holy Spirit?
Would you agree with me that the interest of Illuminate Church is
the Lord our God? OK, y'all aren't ready, I'm
gonna go over here. Would you agree with me that the
interest of the highest nature at Illuminate Church is the Lord
our God? Mezzanine, do you believe us,
the Lord our God? Y'all want a second chance?
Do y'all believe that the common interest of Illuminate Church is
the Lord our God? Whoa, bring that energy the
first time. Come on, I love that.
I would say that I agree with you that God is our common
interest because that is how we all begin in the faith.
It is God that draws us by His Holy Spirit, by his own grace as
love, as mercy. We come with need.
I'm hurting, I'm alone, I'm bound in sin, I feel doomed for
destruction. So I've come looking for a
Savior. And when you walk into a church
that preaches the gospel, you'll find the Savior.
His name is Jesus and respond to him.
He is the head of the church. We are the body from which His
glory is derived. He is the head.
And so if you say that the Lord our God is our common interest,
that we're looking to the Lord, I would say you are correct.
But here's the thing that's distinctive about this community
called the church. Once we receive the love of God
and salvation and faith in Jesus Christ, we immediately begin a
maturing process. Our faith grows so that we get
to this place where we don't walk into the church all the
time saying, God, how I need you.
Instead we say, God, how do you need me?
There's a flip that happens in the mind of the maturing
believer that says I'm no longer coming here just for myself.
I'm coming here to see what God wants me to do that's
distinctive about our community. How can I respond to your heart,
Lord? How can I match your heart?
How can I be part of the solution that reaches out to
others? As we we grow in our faith, in
our minds, our, our, our mindset should transform into this kind
of thinking. Here it is because God is our
interest. Our interest should be God's
interest. And my wife doesn't love golf,
but she's interested in it because I'm interested in it.
So occasionally when I come home from a round of golf, not
because she really cares, but she knows what cares to me.
She said, How was your round? Tell me about your scores, what
you do. I'm like #1 in the water #2
triple bogey #4 I quit. We do this with people that we
are interested in. We make their interest our
interest because it matters to them and they matter to us.
And so as we mature in the faith, we move from thinking
about only our interest to now what's God's interest?
And God's interest is people. His interest is people.
Just look John chapter 3, verse 16.
For God so loved the world. The world is a bunch of people
that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life.
You've heard this verse, but let it sink down into your soul.
How much God loves people took his one and only Son that he
would suffer through an impossibly torturous death just
so that you and I could feel the love of the Father.
John chapter 10, Hallelujah indeed.
John chapter 10, verse 10. The thief comes only to steal,
kill and destroy. But I have come, Jesus has come
that they, the people may have life and have it to the full.
God is crazy about people. People are His interest.
And because people are His interest and God is our
interest, people should be our interest.
In fact, God gave us marching orders.
He gave us a command. We called the Great Commission.
Matthew chapter 28, That Jesus said to them, all authority in
heaven on earth has been given to me.
Therefore go make disciples of all nations.
Nations are full of what are you all here?
Nations are full of what? Yeah, people baptizing them in
the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit and
teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age.
God says in the Great Commission, go and be interested
in people to the extent that those people will fall in love
with the Father. And after they fall in love with
the Father, they'll care about what the Father cares about,
which is people. And then they'll lead people to
the love of the Father and tell those people raise up in the
faith, and they realize what the Father's heart is about.
And they'll match their heart to the Father's, and they'll lead
other people. Do you understand what I'm
saying here? It just goes on and on and on.
We are standing in this space today because of the
faithfulness of other people to be interested in us.
Somebody was interested enough in you to lead you to the love
of the Father. That's God's interest, needs to
be our interest. Then what?
What can we say is our communal interest to Illuminate Church
that defines us as our community?
These words won't surprise you. It's on the wall in the lobby.
We help people find abundant life in Jesus.
This is what Jesus came to do, Amen.
This is what Jesus came to do. This is the Father's heart to
help people find life. And so it's our heart to match.
It's hard to say this is what we're going to do too, but how
do we do it at Illuminate Church?
Great question. We make disciples.
We fulfill the Great Commission because it's disciples who
experience abundant life. It's disciples.
How do we do that? Well, four ways.
Meet God, discover who you are in Christ, Become more like
Jesus and lead others to do the same.
Meet, discover, become. Lead.
You say it. Meet, discover, become.
Everybody says it me. Discover, become, lead.
This is the mission that defines us.
This is what identifies us here as illuminate church.
Who are we? Are we churchers?
So who are we? People of God.
People of God, Yes. Oh, somebody went to the 9:00
AM. We are disciple makers.
It's all right. They just studied for the test.
We are disciple makers. So if I ask you, who are you, I
would hope that as part of your identity that you would speak to
me. You would say I'm a disciple
maker and I'm a part of a community that makes disciples.
It's who we are. It's what we do.
It's our identity. We're not politicians.
We're not activists, we're not doctors or teachers.
These are all great and noble professions.
But as this community stands together, when we gather and
we're out in the world, what we do is make disciples who make
disciples who make disciples who make disciples.
Confusion arises in the community that doesn't know who
they are. When there's a void of identity,
whoever is the strongest mouth in the room will stand up and
say this is who we are, this is what we do.
And when there's confusion or an absence of clarity, division
arises. And when that division arises,
there's usually factions and rivalries and it ain't pretty.
Case in point, if I were to ask you the question, don't answer
out loud on this one. What is an American?
What's the identity of an American?
What's the mission of American? Because there's confusion.
What you have in the world is factions and divisions and
bitter rivalries that are trashing each other on social
media. Unless I'm the only one who's
seen it. But Jesus has been so kind to us
so that no man has to have an opinion.
No woman has to think about it. It's clear from the Creator what
our mission is as a church. This is what we do, he says.
This is who we are as his body. You wouldn't join a softball
team and try to teach them all hockey.
It confuses the mission, confuses the identity.
What are we, softball people with hockey sticks?
You wouldn't join a business leaders group and try to teach
them guitar. It's it's mission confusion.
Like what are we actually here to do?
Play Axel Rose? Like, dude, what?
Somebody just found their church?
Yes. You wouldn't enter a church and
try to change the mission either.
You wouldn't want it to be confusing.
You'd want to find out what is it that we do?
And now I'll let myself align to it and become part of the
community. The mission unites us.
The mission identifies us. We are disciple makers.
In this series, we're inviting you to community, which means
we're inviting you to the mission of the community as
well, to be part of what's happening in the Kingdom.
Here at Illuminate Church in Central Florida.
We are disciple makers. That's the point of the church,
to grow the Kingdom, the community of believers.
You may say, well, I thought the mission of the church was
healing. Didn't Jesus say himself, the
blind will see, the lame will hawk, though the lame will walk,
the death will hear. Is it the mission of the gospel
to bring freedom to people through his blood?
And I would say this to you, and I submitted to you gently that
healing is on the way to mission.
It is not the mission. Healing is on the way to
mission. It's not the mission.
You may have come to the day or come to this church anytime
because you need the healing, spiritual, emotional, physical,
financial, relational, and I want to tell you came to the
right place. Healing is in God's house.
Healing is the children's bread. It's meant for His body.
God is concerned about healing, but healing is not the end of
the game. Healing is not the only thing.
We come here for me like I got healing so I'm good, I'm done.
And we said back, God brought you here not just for your
healing, but that you would join the communal mission to expand
the Kingdom of heaven. Genesis chapter 1, God says be
fruitful and increase in number. He's not just talking about
procreation. He's talking about replicating
the community on the earth. Matthew chapter 28, we just read
it. The Great Commission says go and
make more and more, not Christians, more and more
disciples, people who follow me. A Christian believes A disciple
follows Acts chapter one verse 8 says when the Holy Spirit comes
upon you, you will be my witnesses.
You're going to go tell the world in Jerusalem, Judea,
Samaria, the ends of the earth. All of these scriptures, Old
Testament to New Testament to the birth of the church, all
pointed to the same thing. I'm creating you with a mission.
Build a community, draw people in to the faith family.
This is what we do that all of this comes from Jesus heart.
Jesus is heart of what's is what forms our communal mission.
You've heard me say before that what should the body of Christ
be doing what we should be doing what Christ did while in his
body and I want to show you we finally got to Matthew Chapter
9. You've been so patient Jesus
heart. You can see it displayed in a
few short verses. Verse 35, You ready?
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their
synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom and healing
every disease and sickness. There's a distinction here
between the good news of the Kingdom and healing is every
disease and sickness. They're both important, but
they're distinct. When he saw the crowds, he had
compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like
sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples,
the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers
into his harvest field. You get the essence and kind of
see the pattern and cycle of what I'm speaking about right
here in this short passage about Jesus.
We have healing and then we have harvest.
Jesus has a pattern. First he touches the physical
need. Then he draws attention to the
spiritual need, the physical. Followed by the spiritual, the
temporary, followed by the eternal, the healing, and then
the harvest. That's why we do things here to
illuminate church, like our food pantry every month, supplying
for physical needs of people. It's why we partner with the the
Beyond Pregnancy Care Center, which helps women and family in
their most crucial needs regarding their pregnancies.
It's why we have our Thrive ministry, which reaches those
with special needs. Amen.
It's it's incredible. Boo, I see you.
These are all needs that people have that the church should
address. The local church is the hope of
the world. But the end game is not just
that we meet the physical needs or the emotional needs of
people, but that we spiritually see the issue and respond to it
with the gospel. This is what Jesus is doing here
in Matthew Chapter 9. He sees and then he responds.
Read it with me. Jesus sees and Jesus responds.
Was it up there one more time? Jesus sees and Jesus responds.
In between Jesus scene and Jesus responding is this one thing.
It's called compassion. It's a difference between
driving by somebody who's got a flat tire on the road and seeing
it and keep going, or seeing them sitting there stuck and you
have compassion and you pull over.
That's convicting, isn't it? I got things to do, I'm busy.
I got my own tires to worry about.
Compassion makes you stop and respond.
The first part, though, is maybe where the church is already
failing. We cannot respond unless we see.
Ask yourself this question. Do I see what Jesus sees?
You cannot solve the problem if you don't see the problem.
And when I say see, I don't mean you visually see it, although
that could be the case. It's not just visually seeing
it, but it's comprehending, appreciating, understanding
what's going on in somebody's life.
So you see the problem and then like Jesus, your heart breaks.
You're moved with compassion. How can I leave this person in
this state and do nothing but by compassion I will respond to
them? We have to see the hurting in
order to see the mission. Our community is built on the
heart of Jesus who sees and then he responds.
Glory to God. But notice what he does when
Jesus responds. He doesn't start running up and
down the streets and trying to help every person that he can
with their spiritual condition. Instead, he says this.
The world needs more harvesters. Jesus's strategy is to multiply,
to share the burden of the compassion that he feels.
There are so many people here in need that we need more and more
people to go and help the sheep. Come on, I hear you, William.
Jesus says that the people are harassed and helpless.
Can you visualize these words? Visualize them harassed and
helpless sheep without a shepherd.
Sheep, actual sheep, have their shepherd for a lot of reasons, a
lot of great benefits. Number one, they provide
protection. The shepherd's legs work just
fine. He doesn't need a cane, but he
carries a stick. The shepherd's staff is for
defense of the sheep. It's also for the rescue of the
sheep, the crook, and where they can pull them out of thorns and
thistles and then the little crevices that they fall into and
then get back right in again and pull them out again.
The sheep also are led to provision by their shepherd.
The next field with the grass. They won't go there naturally by
themselves because sheep are dumb, So the shepherd leads
them. The shepherd also gives him his
fellowship, little affection, pat on the head, squeeze of the
wool, running the hand over the back.
There's caregiving, there's connection.
All this comes to the sheep who has a shepherd.
And Jesus says all these people, no protection, no provision, no
fellowship, no caregiving. They are harassed and helpless,
which means they're hurting and have no hope.
It means they are cursed and there is no cure that they are
receiving currently. When I think of the words
harassed and helpless, I think of flailing, not failing,
flailing, a life that is flailing bodily.
We see it in a baby when the baby comes out of the womb where
they've been nice and cocooned, you know, And then they come out
like what? And their feet, they don't know
what to do with them and their spastic with them.
And then what do you do? You swaddle them, take a
blanket, wrap them up and hold them here.
And they just like, yeah. Do you see anyone in your life
that's flailing? And how can you respond?
I got my buddy Ronnie here. I just want to give you a visual
image. Would you give two claps to
Ronnie Antoine? Come on.
Ronnie's been on Sav with us now 2 1/2 years.
The shepherd extraordinaire, my brother, how are you?
Good to see you. So let Ronnie represent your
neighbor who's just have a loved one die or a Co worker who just
can't figure out the finances and constantly is stressed out
about paying the bills, barely making ends meet, asking for
money. I don't know what the case may
be. How about Ronnie represents to
you the friend who cannot get out of anxiety?
They're constantly struggling just to make thoughts exist.
What all of these circumstances and millions more, the people
are flailing, they're harassed, they're being tormented
internally, externally, spiritually, and their spirit is
like this, right? And Jesus says send harvesters
in the field to harvest them. What I imagine the people doing
is saying, hey, come with me into the basket.
Let me harvest you into the community where God's peace
reigns and let me take you from flailing like a child or an
adult in your spirit and wrap you up.
I have this here way to blanket. Anyone here have a way to
blanket there's science on these guys?
This is what I want you to see that harvesters do.
A man who's hurting and broken, a woman who's hurting and
broking, and you walk with the gospel of Jesus Christ and you
simply go like this. Hey, you're going to be all
right. Wear this here weighted
blankets. The science on it is called deep
pressure stimulation. It's like a hug.
Does a hug make you feel better? A weighted blankets like a all
night long hug. The body responds incredibly
positively to evenly distributed pressure upon it.
And that's what's happening with the weighted blanket even.
It means it's like a hug. It's like a papoose for a baby.
It's like the womb. And do anyone here remember when
you were in the womb? Me neither, but I do remember
the effects of what happens to a child when you return them to a
womb in the swaddling. And we're all children of God,
and what we're doing in harvesting is swaddling some
people. 65% of people who put on weighted blankets feel better
when they have anxiety. 60% of people with ADHD have positive
response when they put on a weighted blanket.
It's just a way to illustrate what we're doing when we're
harvesting, taking a person who's flailing around with their
life and covering them with the love of God, harvesting them in
to the community. I want to send you on a mission,
Ronnie. There's somebody here who's
going to be bold enough to raise their hand in a second who says
I need that hug of God today. It's why I came here.
And Ronnie is going to give you this blanket.
You can take it home and keep it for you.
Who is it? Anyone need that today?
Oh, my goodness. Good luck.
He's got you. Let let me show you what this
looks like in a true story that happened just a month ago or so.
There's a woman here in the church, good friends of ours,
who's sitting at home at our house, and all of a sudden she
hears a crash outside in the neighborhood.
Car runs into some sort of truck, delivery truck, big
truck, and then there's the sounds of the people from the
accident. And it turns out there wasn't a
lot of bodily damage. It was more like trauma of the
wreck. I don't know if you've ever been
in a wreck. It's scary.
So this woman goes out of her house hearing the sounds, just
responding. So she saw it.
She has compassion, she's responding.
And she goes and sits with this girl, this young girl who's been
in this accident. And she sits waiting for the
cops to come, waiting for the family to get there.
And she sits and she sits an hour and a half sitting with
this girl who's flailing, traumatized you following me
says, can I pray? I felt like I can.
I pray for you. Girl says yes, prays with her,
said here's my number. Do you need anything?
Just just text me. I live right there.
Like right there. You need a bathroom?
Come on. You need water.
Come on. A friend that showed up.
She wasn't abandoning her. A friend that showed up.
She's like, I'm going. She goes to the house.
Eventually the the the wreck gets taken care of.
Everything you know that they do the next morning she gets a text
from the girl and it's this text of Thanksgiving for being there,
being a weighted blanket in the middle of my trauma.
And then inspired of the Lord. She says, hey, we're having a
morning to worship at church tomorrow.
I know we just met through an accident, but would you consider
coming to church? And that Sunday morning, just
like a month ago, we had the morning worship.
She showed up, the girl showed up with her parents at church,
and then the dad of this family sign up and came to men's
conference. All because one person saw and
responded. All because one person was
prayed for by Jesus long ago. Say, Lord, would you send
harvesters into the field? And the Lord sent this woman
into the field. I believe Jesus is still asking
us to pray this prayer. Father God, the field belongs to
you. The harvesters belong to you.
Will you send your harvesters into the field who care about
what you care about, who see what you see, and will respond
the way that you responded with compassion?
I don't feel like we need to ask the Lord to send harvesters into
the field as much as I need to ask you, will you be the
harvester that God prayed for so long ago?
Will you identify yourself not as a churcher or a Christian,
but as a disciple maker? Because that's who Jesus was,
that's who Jesus is, and that's who his body should be.
I'm going to give you some ways to do that.
How can you be a harvester #1 practical, not going to leave
you, like, yeah, I want to do that.
What do I do #1 invite somebody to your table between now and
Easter, getting really practical.
Will you look with Jesus's eyes at work, in your neighborhood,
in your family and say, I see a need, I'm comprehending what's
going on in the heavenlies, the spiritual realm, and I'm going
to invite this person to my house and we're going to break
bread. We're going to share life.
And if the Lord opens the door, I'm going to say, I hear what
you're going through. I've been there too.
Let me tell you what made a difference in my life.
One thing, not a thing, one person, Jesus Christ.
And I just submit that to you. And if the Lord gives you extra
grace and you say, hey, come with me to Easter, Come hang out
at Illuminate Church. Let's go and hear the good news
together. We're going to talk about
forgiveness on Easter. I can't wait.
I guess I have to. I can hardly wait.
Invite somebody to your table in just a moment.
We're going to pray and I'm going to ask the Lord to give
you a name, you as a harvester, who's the fruit that you're
supposed to go pick #2 Jesus calls them harvesters that
Illuminate Church. We call them Dream Team.
The Dream Team are the people at this church who serve as
volunteers because they see and they respond.
They have compassion and say God, I'm going to do whatever I
can to help harvest. One more person here at
Illuminate Church to bring them into the communal family.
I'm a serving kids. I'm going to sweat out in the
parking lot, be here Sunday night with the youth, Monday
night with the young adults, soon to be Thursday night with
the young adults, All sorts of ways that dream Team members
serve. And they're all harvesters.
They're they're the answer to what the Lord prayed.
Well, would you send more harvesters?
And the dream team said, yes, I'll be a harvester.
I'll go do it. So invite somebody to your
table. Join the dream Team, whether
it's in the church, in the region, or in the world.
And here's the last part. I just can't help but think that
there's somebody here today, somebody's you're like every
time you talk about the harassed and helpless in the sheep
without a shepherd, I feel like it's me.
I feel like you're talking to me.
I feel harassed and I am the flailing 1.
There's no condemnation of that. It's really wise for you to
understand this is what I think my condition is.
I would say to you this Jesus is the healer that you've been
looking for. Jesus is the binder of wounds
that you've been looking for. Jesus is the one who makes
possible what feels impossible to you.
It's the blood of Jesus that heals every disease.
It's the blood of Jesus that heals every sick sickness that
comes from sin and the brokenness of the world.
What you've been looking for, you found his name is Jesus.
You don't have to be a sheep without a shepherd.
All you need to do is say yes to his invitation.
And I want to give you an opportunity to do that right
now, to come into the family, to be part of the community of
faith. It's a simple prayer Church, we
pray this prayer a lot. I, I hope you never tire of it.
Hope you never say we're praying that prayer again.
You're like, yes, you would say, we're praying that prayer again,
right? So if you would bow your heads,
close your eyes, let me give one last instruction.
We're going to pray this prayer so that anyone in here who feels
like they don't have a shepherd, you would receive him as your
shepherd right here and right now praying together with me
saying, Father, come on church, Father, in the name of Jesus.
I recognize that I am a Sinner in need of a savior, a sheep in
need of a shepherd. So I confess and I believe that
Jesus is Lord, He is my Savior, He is my shepherd.
I receive him into my heart today.
And I ask you, Jesus, to live your life through me all the
days of my life. Somebody in here is praying that
today for the first time, and I would just want you to take your
take your moment, talk to Jesus, say yes to what I'm believing.
I'm coming home be my shepherd. Thanks for joining us today.
We hope God is speaking to your heart through this message.
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Have a great week.