The Blessing of Risk | Pastor Dwain Wolfe | August 17th 2025

Amen, Father, we just thank you for the bread of life.

It's good to be in the kitchen, good to get

the bread of life, good to get the nutrition from above.

We welcome your word to feed us today, sustain us,

lead us, shift us internally. We give you the praise

for it in Jesus' name. And everybody said, I want

to talk to you about the blessed risk of Yeah,

the blessed risk of ministry really is what I want

to talk to you about, and how good it is

to lean into the blessed risk of ministry. And then

there's going to be a clipboard coming at the end

of this. The clipboard is for you to get involved

a little bit. So there's a caveat to my message.

There's a level one involvement, and then there's a level

two involvement, and then there's a level three. Now the

clipboard doesn't say that, so when the clipboard comes, you

have to kind of, you know, let us know.

Level one is supporting.

Undergirding, getting engaged in small groups more so small groups support.

Everybody's saying small group support. Level two would be hosting

a small group so somehow engaging in opening up your

home and hosting a small group, even if you don't

want to lead it or don't feel enabled qualified. And

this could be a monthly meeting, a weekly meeting, just

any kind of meeting at all. But if you want

to help host, if you're even interested in having the

discussion of hosting, then put that on the clipboard. Level

two and so that pastor Frank will reach out and

just kind of talk things through with you and explained.

Level three would be you want to lead a small group.

And I'm guessing in a group this size, probably half

of you want to lead a small group, So lead

a small group. So all right, everybody say lead a

small group. Thank you for volunteering. We got that on

the record right now, and so yes, you'll be getting

that phone.

Call leader this week.

Let's let's jump into the word and I want to

start with Acts thirteen thirty six. Acts thirteen thirty six,

And I'm going to talk to you a little bit

about purpose. What's our purpose, what's your what's your divine purpose?

How do you walk that out right?

Acts thirteen thirty six says now David, when he had

served God's purpose in his own generation. So this is

interesting when we think about the life of David with

a great warrior, he expanded the territory, the promised territory,

further than any other leader. David took out Goliath. It

was a symbol spiritually of a victory over darkness. David

instituted worship in a tent, a large tent, probably a tent,

you know, bigger than this building called Zion, on the

highest point in Jerusalem. And Zion means the mountain of

God's pleasure, or the mountain of sunshine, or the mountain

of his brightness. For forty years, the arc of the Covenant,

the tabernacle didn't have the ark. The tabernacle continued in Gibbeon,

and they had sacrifices in Gibeon with no arc. David

had the arc, and for forty years the arc existed

in Zion, in this tabernacle on this highest peak in Jerusalem,

with only the sacrifice of twenty four to seven worship

twenty four to seven prayer twenty four to seven instruments

and prophetic word, and the bowing and the dancing and

the singing of God's people. So David did a lot

of crazy stuff. We could go on and on about.

David also failed. David was also frail. David also messed up.

David also made mistakes. David also had sexual issues. Any

men in the house, David had sexual issues. Your sexual

issues aren't qualifying you from God's ministry. Your sexual issues

are driving you to the cross, Ladies and gentlemen.

Your sexual issues.

Shoes drive you to the cross where you stay humble

and where you stay before the Lord and when you

and where you learn to walk out your deliverance. But

they don't keep you from ministry. Sorry, nothing disqualifies you

from ministry. It didn't for David. Even Jesus is called

the son of David, the son of somebody who had

sexual issues. Hello, somebody, you're quieting here. I know you

thought that something that you're doing disqualified you, but it

doesn't disqualify you. You need to quit letting something you're

doing or have allowed, disqualify you. That's a trick of

the enemy. You need to let that drive you, that problem,

that harm.

That addiction, that issue.

You need to let it drive you to the cross,

drive you to deliverance, and just keep you in a

place of humility. I got news for you. I can't

let one issue keep me from ministry. I don't have

a choice.

Why do I not.

Have a choice and you do? Why does that work?

Why does that make sense? No, you don't have a

choice either. You're on board. You're on twenty four to seven.

You think I'm on twenty four to seven because you

think I'm called to the ministry. The news is you're

called to the ministry. I'm only the equipper of ministers.

You're called to the ministry, and that's really your highest

calling in your generation. Your highest calling in your generation

is not what you're doing every day to make a living.

It's not even parenting that'll mess up. Yeah, I just

want to tell you something.

You know.

You can't let parenting get in the way of your ministry. Wow. Wow,

that's called idolatry. If you're letting your children and your

household get in the way of what you're called to

in the Lord, that's called idolatry. Now you've placed your

children above the call of the Lord on your life,

you'll probably end up with mess up children. Wow. No,

the call of the Lord on your life is supreme.

There's nothing more important. There's nothing more important. And this

this is you know, the Lord said, this is I

think it's Matthew eleven twenty nine somewhere in there. He said,

take my yoke upon you, and then he said something

about my yoke, and a yoke.

Means a burden.

It means get into this thing and poll with me, like,

get under this burden and poll with me.

Take my yoke, like what I'm yoke?

Like?

What's what's my burden? Because I'm not going to be

with you forever, but.

I'm going to send my spirit to live in you.

And when I send my spirit to live in you,

take my yoke. What my burden has been. Take my

yoke upon you, upon you, upon the way you're wired,

upon the way I created you, upon your talents, upon

your skills, upon your joy, upon your laughter, upon your silliness,

upon your personality. Take my joy up. I mean, take

my burden, my yoke upon you. And then he says,

and learn of me, Learn of me, for my.

Yoke is easy and my burden is now.

I personally think that we have perverted the word, or

we've allowed Satan to lie to us. I think most

of us think anything to do with ministry is actually

hard and heavy, not easy and light. And since that's

our faith that's what we get, since that's our confession.

That's what happens because you get what you believe. You

don't get what he said unless you agree.

With what he said.

You have to agree with what he said to get

what he said if you disagree with these So you know,

I've been around Christians all of my life who that's.

Part of their brag.

Actually, part of their Christian brag is how hard it

is and how heavy it is. They brag about that.

Do you understand what I'm saying. Christians brag about contradicting

the words of Jesus. But their bag becomes the fulfillment

but the and they justify it by by you know,

by saying, body, it'll all be worth it when we

make it the glory.

Oh, it'll be worth it, Mildred. Oh, life is hell

on earth. But it's you know, it's but where it's

going to be worth No, we're in disagreement. We're in

disagreement with Jesus. Getting ahead of myself.

But what I'm trying to say is David understood that

he was in his generation for divine purpose. These things

are in scripture because we also are being called to

understand that we're living in our generation for divine purpose.

And the supreme expression of our purpose is found when

we take his joke upon us and we learn of him.

That's the supreme expression of our purpose. Now, so we

have to think about you know, what was his joke?

What is his joke?

Right somewhere he said, I've come for this purpose to

seek and to save the lost. Remember that, so that

how many of you knew that one already?

I got four.

Yups and no hands. How many of you knew that already?

All right, that's better, hallelujah. Another place he said that

his purpose was to destroy the works of Satan. Right,

destroy the works of Satan. Another place, and this is

when he quoted Isaiah sixty one one through three. You

remember when he quoted Isaiah sixty one one through three.

It was his first sermon in Luke for and Mark

Matthew for right after his baptism. And he said there

that he came to heal the broken heart, he came

to set captives free, he came to bring good news

to the poor. He came to take out vengeance on

the sons, on the enemies of the sons of Adam.

So he's a vengeance takeer router, like, wherever he finds

somebody beating up the sons of Adam, he's going to

take out vengeance on them.

Right.

He also said he came to announce jubilee over every person,

that this is the year of jubilee for every person.

So these are.

Things that he said in Isaiah sixty one one through three.

It would be good for us to memorize this, because

here's what you have to understand is that when he left,

he gave you his assignment. He handed you the baton

as he was going up in the clouds in Luke

twenty four, as he was going up in the clouds,

he was handing you in your generation, the baton of

his ministry. So, if you don't know what your purpose

is in the Lord, if you don't know what in

the world you're called to in your generation, you're going

to get up to the pearly gates and Saint Peter

is going to be standing there to open the pearly gates,

and Father is going to be there with a well

done expression. But instead you're going to get the Pillsbury domain.

You with me, No, you're not. Let's talk about this.

How many of you have bought Pop Murphy's pizza before?

How many have you bought Pop Murphy's pizza?

Put?

I want to see every hands bought a Pop and

Murphy's pizza. Okay, good, you know what I'm talking about.

You take it home and you bake it. You know

what I'm talking about. And there's instructions on top and

the little ones. You heat the oven to four twenty five.

But the Chicago stuffed three seventy five, Chicago stuffed longer

twenty minutes, right, but the normal crust right four twenty five.

And it's not good if you put more than one

in the same oven. Now, how many of you have

cooked that Pop Murphy's pizza? How many of you have

cooked that? And you ended up messing up the cooking

and it was dewey in the middle. I see a hand,

dewie in the middle. Dewie in the middle. One two,

three admitted, even if your spouse is here, four, five, six, seven, eight,

We had twenty in the first service, nine, ten, eleven.

I recounted you twelve, okay, twelve thirteen too young to cook,

though I don't know about that. One thirteen okay, So

we got thirteen twenty bad cooks in first service. What

do you think of that? Okay, only thirteen bad cooks

in this service. So what happens is and I just

I hate this, right, and so I try to control

the cooking. I try to control the and last time,

you know, we've had two or three like sparring matches,

Missus Wolf and mister Wolf because I'm trying to I'm

kind of watch over the cooking because here's what here's

what I hate. And Papa hates it too, that dewy middle.

They bring you the pizza, you cut it with the

pizza cutter, right, and then you get it and you're

just so excited to have that, you know, Canadian bacon

and pineapple or the meat lovers whatever it is. And

then you bite in and the middle is dough. They

pulled it from the oven too quick. And let me

tell you something, when you pull it from the oven

too quick, it's like it's just you messed it. It's

dowie in the middle. Okay, it's not well done. It's

not well done. What are we looking for when we appear? Listen, listen.

You can make all the money you want to. You

can have all of the cars, you'd like to have.

You can have boats, you can have lake houses, you

can have multiple houses. I know in Orthodontis with twelve houses.

You can have all sorts of stuff. But if you

get up there and you don't get it well done,

if you're still dowe in the middle, then what in

the world were you doing? If you didn't even know

the purpose for which you were living. You have a purpose.

God rescued you in your generation for a purpose, and

he saw you in the ministry.

You're called to the ministry.

Yeah, Now in America we still have problems.

Probably worldwide, we still have problems.

We have problems in that we still have this clergy

thing going on. We still have a little bit of

a leftover from Catholicism because we all came out of Catholicism.

All of us came out of Catholicism, and Catholicism was

really a reach back to the old Mosaic system with

the priesthood, with Aaron and the Levites and the priest

and the other eleven tribes. The other eleven tribes they

were spectators, they weren't ministers. We had one tribe that

was the ministering tribe. The tribe of Levi, and Aaron

was the high priest, and Aaron watched over that, and

so all the other tribes, the other eleven tribes. They

had other assignments. They had vocational assignments, they had money

making assignments, they had provisionary assignments, they had warrior assignments,

they had building assignments. But they had nothing to do

with the ministry. Their job was just to bring their tithe.

Catholicism is a reach back into that formality where the

clergy holds all the keys to the ministry, and the

clergy does the ministry. The clergy does the deliverance. Clergy

does the salvation. The clergy does the absolving of sin.

The clergy makes sure you're going to heaven. The clergy

does your prayers. The clergy does everything. Everything's about the clergy.

That system, that system is done. That system was done

with the Resurrection. That system was done two thousand years ago,

done over. Father replaced that system with a brand new system.

Today's ministers are not your priest. The Bible, the New

Testament is the priesthood.

Of every believer.

You are a priest and a king unto God. Your

intercession is as good as mine on Monday, Tuesday, and

usually on Wednesday. No, every day, your intercession is as

good as my intercession. I can't pray better than you.

I can't decree better than you. I can't prophesy better

than you. I can't heal better than you. I can't

forgive better than you. I can't absolve better than you.

I can get somebody assurance of salvation better than you.

I can't be an ultra worker better than you. That's

why we don't have me being the sole altar worker.

I'm not king ultra worker. It's the priesthood of every believer.

We're all in the ministry. Did you know you were

in the ministry? You're in full time ministry. You're in

full time ministry. That means you better know what it

is that the yoke kids, that you better know what

your assignment is. Because this is supreme. Everything bows to this.

Even my vocation is just my bi vocational support for

my ministry. I might be good at it, I might

be talented at it. People might want to pay me

for what I do vocationally. You know, in America, seventy

five percent of the churches are pastored by bi vocational pastors.

The church doesn't pay them a salary. They have to work.

Guess what, that's just like every other Christian in America.

You're a bivocational pastor, You're a bivocational ministry. That's what

I'm trying to say. You are called to the ministry.

You are called to the ministry. We still have this

mindset that only seminary graduates are called to the ministry,

Only people that hold a position at the church are

called to the ministry. Only people who get paid to

do this are called to the ministry. Think about the

implication of that contradiction to the words of Jesus. Think

about that implication. Number One, You're going to be Pillsbury

when you get to the pearly gates. He's going to

poke a finger in you and just hit dough. You're

going to have to come back because you're not well done.

You're not going to get it well done. You're going

to get a partial done, partial done. My good and

partially faithful servant, Enter into a mobile home. Enter into

a mobile home on the backside of Heaven's dump. You

think I'm joking. The Bible says that our works are

going to be tried by fire, and if our works

have not measured up to our calling, we're going to

make it into glory only by the skin of our teeth,

and there will be no crowns for us. This has

eternal implications. Your car has a five year implication, your

stuff has a seventy eighty ninety year implication. But your

works before the Lord have an implication. You're gonna you

never will have another chance to be a minister again.

On the other side of this, like you have now,

is what I'm saying. Do you understand. Let's read it

Ephesian chapter four, just for phone, and then I want

to I want to tell you, though this sounds heavy.

Everybody say heavy, Oh he's being heavy, but I want to.

I want to tell you that your joy is connected

to this. I want to tell you that your wealth

is connected to this. I mean what doctor Craig was

talking on right now. Your wealth is for the offering.

It's true. Your wealth is even connected to.

This right because it because because the Lord makes it

easy and he makes it light. But if we disassociate

from our primary purpose and what we're called to, if

we disassociate it from it, then we end up and

our life is still hard. Even though we're a believer.

Our life is hard, even though we've matured a little

bit in the Lord. Our life is hard because we're

not embracing the yoke of ministry Ephesians four. So Christ

himself gave the apostles.

Who did it? Who did it?

Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, of pastors,

and the teachers to equip his people for works of service.

To do what to equip his people for works of service?

The word service in the Greek is doma. Everybody say domama.

It's not hard. The word doma. It's translated in the

King James appropriately the work for works of ministry, works

of ministry. Christ gave these five offices to the church

to equip all of God's people for the ministry, for

the ministry. We're all called to the ministry. You're called

to the ministry, not fun. You've been wanting all your

life to be called the ministry. Now you know that

you are, so that the Body of Christ may be

built up until we all reach unity in the faith

and the knowledge of the Son of God. This is

so the body will be built up. Now listen, He's

going to tell you how that happens in a minute,

is that the building of the body is not just

through the equippers. The building of the body actually happens

also through the ministers. So the body of Christ will

be built up and come into the measure of the

fullness of Christ. Did you know that holding Satan wants

us to hang on to this old mindset, the clergy mindset.

Woe is me.

I'm just a little layperson. I don't know nothing. I

can't lead anybody. I'm just a dummy head. I can't

have a small group. I can't lead a soul. I

don't have anything to say. I can't prophesy, I can't pray.

Go see pastor Dwyane, have you called the office? Satan

is so thrilled with that thinking, that thinking that reaches

back into the days that God already canceled and said, no,

that's not what I want. And then the church isn't

coming into maturity. The church isn't coming into maturity because

I won't embrace my calling. See until I embrace my calling,

do you know how much answering my calling has caused

me to mature. I've been doing this for forty two years.

Actually forty four years. I started doing this before Bible College.

I started doing this at nineteen youth pastor at nineteen

So I've been doing this a long time, right, So

just by accident, I've grown, I've matured a little bit,

just you know, just by accident this because you know.

But well, here's what.

I'm saying is that when you embrace responsibility, that's when

you grow. Hey, only, let's have sex. Okay, Oh whoops,

I think something's in my tummy. Oh well, praise God,

we're gonna be parents. Do you know how much that

caused you to grow? You talk about mature. What if

you would have never popped that seed in there? You know,

what if you would being too frank, being too honest.

What if you would have never had a little fun, Right, Well,

you wouldn't have had that child, and you'd still be stupid.

You'd still be just a big boy, you still be

a retard, you still be messing around and doing stupid

stuff with your money. But now all at once you

got a responsibility. That responsibility has actually produced maturity in you.

Well, that's the way it works.

As long as you shirk the Lord's calling on your life,

you just stay a big dummy. You can be online

all you want to. You can have entertainment, you can

mess up, you can do whatever. You can even sin

before Sunday. And it's okay. I'm not teaching anybody, Pastor Dwayne.

If I'm sinning this week, I might not even get

a word for Sunday. Lord, have mercy. My whole life

is on the line. You hear what I'm saying. Time

for you to rise up, Time for you to mature,

Time for you to embrace your calling, Time for you

to embrace discipling. Oh my goodness, this is one of

the things.

That he said.

He said, this is his assignment, and he gave it

to us, go and make disciples of all the nations,

and go and teach them everything that I've taught you.

That's actually, this is actually did you know what this

is called, Matthew twenty eight eighteen through twenty You know

it's called it's called the Great the Great Commission. You

know what that means, The Great co Mission, the Great

co Mission, meaning it's the mission that you are co

brought into the Lord with. You actually don't have an

independent mission. Now you can pretend you have an independent mission. Yeah,

I'm an entrepreneur. Yeah, I'm this, I'm not in the

other thing.

You can be an entrepreneur.

You just better remember your primary mission is the comission.

Your primary mission is the coast. So how are you

walking that out? How are you fulfilling that? Well? Most

Christians in America are going to leave Sunday and virtually

do very little, like almost nothing, to walk that out,

because their life is their own, their home is their castle,

their time is their own. They gave, they gave their

ten percent, and they showed up for church. Most Americans,

that's how they're going to function. And so the churches

remain stagnant and growth is small and soul winning is little.

Did you know that ninety eight percent of all Christians

will never lead in America? Listen to me, ninety eight

percent of all Christians in America will never lead a

soul to the Lord. That sounded like a Pillsbury doughboy

to me. That sounds like when you get to the

priverly gates, we're going to get a lot of I

wish you were well done, but you're not well done.

You only have done of Americans will never Christians. Christians

in America will never lead a soul to the Lord?

Is that sad? Is that scary?

Do you want to be part of that? I think

we have to think. We have to think radically. We

have to think different. We have to think like we're pioneers.

We have to think like we're church builders. We have

to think like we're kingdom growers. We have to think

like we're called to the ministry. We have to think

like we're scrappers and fighters. We have to think like

this is supreme. We have to think like, how do

we overcome darkness? How do we love people better?

Now?

Here's the truth. I want to tell you the truth.

One of the most, probably the most effective mechanism for

us to flesh out our calling. Probably the most effective

mechanism is a small group. Thirty four years ago, Joel

and I started a small group in our house. This

church is the meturation of a small group. For twelve years,

we met every Wednesday night without stopping. We never missed

one in twelve years, with our kids there, with everybody

coming and going, with traffic and cars lining around the block.

Twelve years, that's seven hundred and eighty Wednesday nights or

something like that. With diapers and troubles and people staying late,

and crisis and difficulties and people to pray for and

people to deliver and people to minister too, and me

not having a lesson sometimes and not knowing what in

the world I was going to talk about, and this

that and the inner thing. And sometimes we had a

boom box, and sometimes we had a guitar, and sometimes

we had really good snacks, and sometimes they were terrible.

Just everything right, and.

People wearing at our carpet and wearing out, wearing out

our hardwood with the little pokey's.

On the bottom of their heels.

But every moment was worth it, Every moment was worth it.

Two years ago, we moved to a new neighborhood. We're like,

how do we change this neighborhood? What can we do

in this neighborhood. We weren't very effective in the last neighborhood.

We really weren't. I would walk the neighborhood, pray over

the neighborhood. I fastened over the neighborhood, prayed over the neighbors,

tried to minister to some of the neighbors.

We weren't very effective.

We honestly weren't in the last neighborhood, and we were

like dead dog determined, we want to make a difference

in this neighborhood. There's two hundred and fifty homes in

this neighborhood. So two years ago we started a small

group with one of our neighbors. We've had seventy families

come to our small group. They don't come to this church,

they don't have to come to this church. I'm not

trying to convince him to come to this church. We're

just trying to love on people and lead them into

a deeper experience with Jesus. At the last meeting, Joel spoke.

Joel said, I think I just want to talk out

of my apologetics lesson. I just want to talk a

little bit about what it is to know the Lord,

and I want to talk about my own doubts. And

so she talked about Thomas, doubting Thomas, and she talked

about doubts. We had a Chinese lady there, a Buddhist

Chinese lady. She reached out afterwards text to Joel because

we have all their phone numbers, because we've worked hard

to do this. You know, it's simple, but it does

take effort.

Right, So for.

Months we just walked around and put a postcard in

everybody's mailbox. And then you know, we do the next

door thing, and we do Facebook stuff and and but

after the meeting, and she shared a little bit out

of what it is to not be condemned by your doubt.

Let your doubt.

Drive you toward more answers, and don't be condemned by

your doubt. Then people start reaching out afterwards, they're texting

pastor Jow, can we meet for coffee? Can you tell

me more about why you're so assured of your salvation.

People are hungry, people are lonely. The way America lives life,

you know, we live life platform centered, entertainment centered.

It's not just the church.

All of America is kind of platform centered, entertainment centered

that leads people really lonely. Love can make a difference.

That's where small groups come in. That's where houses come in.

The twenty twenty Vision Acts twenty twenty, the twenty twenty

Vision of Church Growth his public meetings, but house to house,

Paul said, I never failed to proclaim to you the

gospel publicly and house to house. Those house to house

meetings are so critical, they're so vital or so powerful

and they're so easy. But if we don't get involved

in some of these expressions, then we aren't really working

the most effective too. We have to not only reach,

but disciple and touch and love and minister to the

saved and the un saved. And we've had both come

to our Late TAPS group and we only meet once

a month, once a month, and it's like been super

effective to get these people there. It's crazy that they

would come.

It's crazy.

We never who's got to know who's going to come

through the door. But they all come with needs, and

they all come hungry for love and open the prayer

and wanting something deeper in God.

And you carry it. You carry it.

You carry something that you can impart and even if

you host something you know level too is just even

if you host it. Frank said, there's the there's a

there's a guy from incarceration. There's a guy who's just

a meeting and he's showing the chosen.

Or just watching the chosen.

Then they finished with a little discussion and some prayer

and everybody's edified and they're building community and he's just

made himself vulnerable. You don't have to know every answer

he's just made himself vulnerable. He's taking a risk, and

I'm telling you the blessing of it, the blessing on

my word. It'll blow your mind. Read Isaiah fifty eight.

Let him blow your mind. Then your restoration will spring forth.

Then the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.

Just read these scriptures. Just meditate on some of these scriptures,

the one I was thinking of this morning. Mark ten

twenty nine, Mark ten twenty eight through thirty. Lord, we've

left everything to follow you. We've left everything and to

follow you. What's in it for us?

Lord?

Lord, We've sacrificed.

Lord.

We're sacrificing our house, sacrificing time. I'm missing a coaching meeting.

I'm missing a game, I'm missing a dinner, I'm missing

my favorite show. Lord, we've left everything. We've left some

stuff to follow you. Oh, nobody's left something. Who won't

in this life receive a hundredfold. I chose years ago

to follow this mission for my life, and I couldn't.

I couldn't do what others have done. I couldn't follow

a better path of investments. I couldn't follow a better

path of this, that or the other thing financially, and

the Lord would like he'd pull me up sometimes, like

when we built our third house. I was just going

to keep building houses. And then the Lord's like, no,

I need your attention right here. Are we going to

pay attention to the Lord's calling on our life? Are

we going to continue to put money ahead of the

Lord's calling. One time, we had a big fight and

I had made an offer on five acres over on

the hill with a view of the mountain with three

homes on it, right up of forty fourth Street in Tacoma,

and it's above the Puyallup Valley. And because build and sell,

build and sell, that's what I do. And we had

a big fight and I had my house listed. I

had an offer on that house. Guess who won the fight.

Holy Spirit won the fight. Holy Spirit said no, it's

not time for that. It didn't mean the promise of

blessing wasn't there. What God's done with us is beyond

what I could have ever done. Where we set financially

today beyond what It's beyond explanation, and it's beyond imagination.

But it's because I stayed true to this. I'm saying

this for your benefit.

Not for mine.

I'm telling you, everything you give up for the Gospel,

God will reward you above and beyond, and it will

blow your mind what He does. When you prioritize building

people instead of your empire. When you prioritize building people

instead of your empire, God will begin to build your

empire for you because you prioritize the building people and

not building your empire. Say with me this morning, Level one,

lovel one, I want you to let me know today,

let us know today. I want to be a greater

support to small groups. They're going to start up fresh

in the fall, brand new small groups in September. I

want to be a part of supporting. I want to

I want to be an assistant leader. I want to

be helping with food. I want to be praying. I

want to be supporting somehow. I want to be plugged

in small group Number two. I want to open my home.

I don't even know what it looks like yet, I

have no idea what it looks like. Tell us you're

a level two on the thing today when you sign up,

it's just say level two.

I don't know what it looks like, but I'm open.

I want to talk about it.

I don't know if I'm going to show a chosen video.

I don't know if I'm going to show a Dave

Ramsey video, or I don't know if we're just going

to watch the sermon from Sunday and talk about it.

I have no idea what we're going to do, but

I'm interested. Or level three, I want to lead a

small group. I want to lead a small group. Now, lastly,

here's what I want to tell you. Since you're called

to the ministry, you should go to seminary. Since you're

called the ministry, why don't you go to seminary.

It starts September.

Twenty two called Kingdom School of Transformation. It's on Monday

nights only. It is such an easy commitment and you

will become so smart theologically. You'll go through the apologetics class.

You'll go through church history. You'll know what a Protestant is.

You're going to go through the Seven Mountain class, the

Dominion of Jesus class, the Hebrews class, so you understand

the difference between the old and the new. I mean,

you're going to grow like a weed in Eastern Washington.

If you will come to seminary. Stop today and talk

to us, take the brochure, find out more. It's dirt cheap,

and you're going to go like crazy and it will

feed you. To be a feeder because you are called

to the ministry.

Amen. Amen, Amen, Amen. And we're going to shed every

excuse together.

We're gonna be fighters, we're gonna be scrappers, we're gonna

be church pioneers, church growers. We're gonna build churches and

build campuses and build people because we love people and

we're called to take his joke upon us. Father, we

thank you for this day. We shout grace over your people,

enablement over your people in Jesus' name, And everybody said, Amen.

If you're brand new or newer, meet us back in

the back and let us get you a coffee and

a cookie.

God bless your church.