Pastor Brodie Kalamen | Unstoppable Church | May 4th, 2025

Welcome everyone.

Welcome to church.

Come on.

I love the church.

How many of you love the church?

It's an exciting place to be when we come and we encounter something that's supernatural.

No other place in the world exists like the church.

The YMCA doesn't hold a candle to the church.

Norman's breakfast diner doesn't hold a candle to the church.

It's a place where you get fed, but you get fed spiritually.

You get fed with life.

And the life here is meant to be an eternal life and a good life for each one of us.

You can come in, you can come in with your head down and walk out with your head up.

Just because of what Jesus can do.

And it's hard to even put a temperament or a handle on what God does when you're in his presence.

But the Bible says he revives you.

He revives you from your innermost place.

Your innermost man gets revived.

And sometimes we're so closed in terms of the uh the act, we're so closed in terms of the looking at the world and the busyness of our mind and the I would call it the anxiety or the heaviness that we may be uh focusing on, that we don't leave room for God to actually receive from Him and to be open and receive what God has for us.

And you know, the church is a great time and thank you for the worship team for just slowing things down and allowing us to open up our heart to receive from God.

Because every time you encounter God, it's a good thing.

Amen.

Today I'd like to share and launch off this new series called The Unstoppable Church.

When you say Unstoppable Church, would you say it again?

Unstoppable church.

Woo! That's the church.

That's who we are.

We live in a divine tugawar, a place between the real and the ideal.

There's a real place that we live in.

The real place is messy.

How many of you live in a messy reality?

But yet we look forward to this majestic place.

And that was our point in worship, is we're getting a taste of what the angels experience, of what heaven is like.

And the real is what we experience here.

The ideal is what we're in pursuit of.

And we're pursuing that place, and we're caught in that place in between, wrestling between heaven and earth.

And so Jesus taught us to pray.

He says, Don't let that be your wrestle.

Just pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, just the way it is in heaven.

And so impose the kingdom of heaven on the earth.

And you do it with your words, you do it with your activity, you do it with your attitude, you do it with your engagement and your gesture.

That's why we clap our hands, that's why we sing, that's why we engage, because we're they're just not, our worship isn't just words, our worship is spiritual reality.

It's a sword in our hand.

The worship is a weapon in the hands of a worshiper, and it becomes something real in our life.

We may never really arrive at that ideal in our life.

We may never really arrive at that ideal, but the ideal is what we strive for.

And it's that calling that calls us higher towards.

We're called to pursue perfection.

And we know that we're called for more.

And perhaps, like perhaps you've been in this place, even that word calling means it is something that's like drawing us in.

Like we're all here today because there's a calling towards each of us.

Our spirit man is being called to go deeper, called to hunger more, called to go to that place of the unknown.

We're called, and that's why in Revelation it says the spirit and the bride say what?

Come, come on, come close, come deep, come in.

It's like come to this place, and we're called into this place, and we respond to that calling.

If the church is the extension of God, God's kingdom on the earth, then the stakes are really high that we get the church right, isn't it?

If the extension of the kingdom of God is to be demonstrated in the church, it's important that we get this right.

And it's a high calling.

And we're not just playing church when we come to church, we're actually building the church.

And it's important that when we build the church, we actually build it on a spiritual bedrock, a strong foundation.

So the first thing we see is that the church is in a building, it's it's a body, it's people.

The church is all about the people that are in the building.

Sometimes you have to be really careful because definition creates a reality, it creates your perspective.

But uh, but the church, like this is the main auditorium.

This is where the church gathers.

But the church isn't the brick and the mortar or the lights or the fixtures or the chairs, it isn't the sound, it isn't all those things.

The church is the body of Christ, it is the people that gather together.

Go ahead, nudge your neighbor, say, You're the church.

Good-looking church.

Go to a good looking church.

We are the church.

In Jesus, before Jesus, God, there was an old covenant.

And this old covenant was built on uh and around a holy place.

It was built around the temple.

The new covenant that Jesus brought wasn't built around in a holy place, but it was built around a holy people.

And the people, we are called to be priests and kings.

We're called to live and operate in this world as his ambassadors, representing Christ from this place to the world.

The church is more than just a building.

The building is an accessory, but not a necessity.

It's a good how many of you are grateful for the church building.

We're grateful for the church building here, but it's it's just an accessory.

We are the church.

The church is not an institution, it's a family.

We have a heavenly father, we're brothers, we're sisters, we're called sons and daughters.

This is our calling to be a part of something that's bigger, and that's why it transcends the church itself, transcends borders, it transcends, trans, transcends uh, you know, uh different uh demographics and different race and different uh attitudes and different uh postures.

It it transcends it all.

The church is bigger than what even we see here today.

I love going to the church and visiting the church while you're in Mexico, while you're in different countries, because the church is the same.

And you'll feel that familiarity, that family likeness when you go to a church, even at a different place, because you serve the same father.

You're part of the same church.

The church is in a crowd, it's a purpose, it's a group of people designed for a purpose and it with a cause, and it has a backbone to it.

First Corinthians chapter 12, verse 12 says this just as a body, though one has many parts, but all of its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:12

So it is with Christ.

This body, his body, has many parts, and we are a part of his body as the church.

We're actually a part of his presence on the earth and his manifestation on the earth.

So the church is something that is bigger than a like an NPO, a non-for-profit.

It's more than just a digital number on some spreadsheet that's recognized by our federal government or at city hall.

The church lives within each one of us.

And together we build this network, a wall, a building, a structure that is that is beyond uh the natural and actually recognizes more of what God's intention in heaven is for the world today on earth.

So when we come to Christ and we connect as the church, we connect as one body, and this body is tuned together.

How great would the body be without a skeletal structure?

It just would fall apart.

So the body has order, the body has structure, and unity is so important as part of the body of Christ.

And the the great thing about the church is that we don't unite based on each other, we unite based around Him.

And it's like when you're tuning a piano, like a grand piano, a physical piano, uh the tuner would come in and he'd carry a tuning fork with him.

And he doesn't tune each key to the key that it's beside.

He tunes each key to the tuning fork.

So each of us don't get united to because of each other, because of our hobbies or habits or our preferences or our uh you know our personal uh our personal opinions.

We all get united and aligned according to his person, Jesus.

And so all of us, and even it comes down to our marriages and our our relationships with one another, we don't go to our own opinion, we go to his word.

We don't go to our own ideas, we go back to his word.

We don't build the church because it's our preference.

We go and we build the church according to his word.

And if culture is going to pursue, and it will, uh, an adjustment to the church to form it to culture, we have to drag it back and say, no, we're going to build the c the culture conforms to the word of God, not to our own preference.

And sometimes that can be anti uh like that can be anti-uh popular, it can be uh it can be perceived as insensitive and intolerant, but the fact is we've decided from the day I made Jesus my Lord that I would obey his word first and follow his way first.

So we step back in our own preference and we follow his heart.

Our unity isn't defined by our closeness one to another, but by our relationship with Christ.

I love the fact that our church comes together on Sunday.

I love the fact that it's building together, but we're not united because we all get along, we're knighted, you we're united because we all belong to Him.

The church was Jesus' idea.

The first picture we get of the church is in the New Testament in Acts chapter 2, and before that, before Jesus announced and and and that first church was launched, Jesus was saying this in Matthew 16, 18.

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He said this to Peter and he was prefacing something that was going to happen that hadn't happened yet.

But Jesus was intentional on building, and it's interesting because you didn't see his agenda until that moment.

And they he said this he says, I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Amen.

The gates of hell will not prevail against the church that he's building.

Jesus was telling Peter, He's gonna build the church on a newfound revelation, a confession of faith.

And this church would be something different than anything that they would have experienced during that day where they gathered around a building, a temple, a place of worship, and it would be a prevailing church, and the gates of hell would not overcome that church.

And the the fact is that if God builds the church, hell can't prevail against it, hell can't break it.

If God builds it, hell can't come against it and overcome it.

So this church that he was building was going to be different than the one before.

How many of you know some progression is important?

Some progression is important that we adjust ourselves to what God is doing and not just stick to the tradition of what God has done, but we anchor ourselves to his presence and to his word today and what go where God is moving.

Acts chapter 2 says this about the first church.

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And it's an exciting verse here.

It says, they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer, and everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.

All the believers were together, had everything in common.

They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts, they broke bread in their homes, ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God, enjoying the favor of all the people, and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

It's a great picture of the church.

This first church launched in it.

And when I read this in my mind, I just see lesson after lesson after lesson.

I see points in that.

What does this church look like?

And for me as a pastor, I try and uh reflect that church into our church and say, Lord, is our church mirroring the church that you've intended us to be?

Because unless we mirror your church, we won't be the unstoppable church that prevails.

So it stops for I stop for a moment and I say, Where's what does this church look like?

Well, the first thing I see is that the church is a place of community.

It sounds like a small word, a weak word.

Community.

How many of you see that word and are like inspired by it?

But the word community is a powerful word.

It's not a crowd, it's a community.

The church is not just something on Sunday, they it was a daily devotion.

It was a daily devotion, and the the early church wasn't built on programs or platforms, it was built on people who believed together, they had a common unity, and they built this community, they were recognized as people who had faith in Christ, and they were described simply in the early church as people who believed.

They believed similarly, they believed together, they put their trust and their belief in Christ.

And our belief isn't an intellectual belief, it's it's a belief in a person of Christ.

Trusting our life, trusting our destiny in Jesus Christ.

All other religions are based on a relationship about God.

Our faith and our belief is built on a relationship to God.

And isn't that amazing?

We can have a relationship with God and share it together.

And I can sit with Bruce, and Bruce and I can have a have a coffee together, and I can share about my relationship with God and where that relationship is going.

And he can share his relationship with God, what he's learning, and how he's growing.

I can sit with Pastor Ed and he can share with me and with Lisa, and they can share with us what God is doing in their life, and I can share what God is doing in my life.

And it grows and it grows because our relationship in the church is not built around an institution, it's built about it's built around a person that we all can know and is all wanting to be known.

So together we build the church.

As we read this passage, we can uh pass over this place really uh quickly about how they were together, but the fact is they were together, they this is significant.

They they they believed together, they were together.

It's a symbol of our salvation where now we have love for one another, and and we have love where once there was enmity or there was aggression against each other, now there's love and care and and concern for one another.

They stuck together, and they realized there was a power in that where they were together, they were better.

And together was more than just a vibe, like, oh yeah, we're pretty cool.

We just have this group that's together, but it was a value that they lived and they they longed for.

I want to have community, and at KCC, we're intentional about building communities of belonging, looking because we know that we're called to be a community, we're we're called to carry a common unity, and together we know that we're better.

And I need you, and you need me, and I'm better because of you, and you're better because of me.

And so we honor one another and we build a culture that elevates and supports and celebrates and repeats what each other's doing and testifies.

Did you hear both so-and-so?

They're doing so great.

This is what they're learning, this is what they're doing, this is what they're doing.

I I'll tell you this: you are better today because Bernice was on keys and leading in worship than me.

Her gift is a blessing.

Her gift is an and I honor that gift, Bernice.

Amen.

Honor the years of support service and the years of practice and the year of intimacy and relationship you've built with the Lord that you can just easily just demonstrate that.

It's it's not easy, but you've done it.

You've done that.

We honor one another.

The Romans, when they looked at the church, they said, There's something different about you because the church gathering, their communities were places where they uh where they were there was impoverishment and there was um real need, and the church would go into those areas and build up those areas.

They would go amongst the the worst of the worst places and they built true communities, and it was in those areas that there wasn't even any need.

Acts 2 says that there was no need between the people.

Now they shared all that they had in common.

It didn't mean that they they gave up all their houses, and the Bible actually says they met from house to house, they had possessions, but when there was need, they were willing to sacrifice their possessions to support one another because there was caring, there was sharing, there was support, there was community.

I don't know if uh Western culture and Western civilization understands that value.

We take or we uh take it lightly, we uh neglect the value and the importance of it, but we need each other, and there's a power in that.

So corporate gatherings were important, uh, and there were places where the church would gather together, and that's what we're doing today.

Big church.

And you could throughout the week we have small church, small groups, house to house.

But Jesus, despite the fact that he was Even building a bigger church.

The fact that he was doing something new even did kept his habit going to the temple regularly.

And do you know what the temple there?

It wasn't a friendly place.

He wasn't accepted.

He was questioned.

People were suspicious of him.

In fact, it would lead to people making accusations about him and uh trying to ruin his reputation.

But the fact is he would go there.

And I know it was difficult for him because in scripture there were times where he was so agitated.

The scripture says he turned over tables, money-changing tables, and made a big scene.

And literally, you read that scripture, he he took a he just sat down and bred, like uh braided a cord into a whip and went through the halls and just started whipping people.

I can't imagine.

That's one scene I want to see when I get to heaven.

Go to that scene.

I want to see you just like going through the halls.

Who's next?

And yet he was agitated and yet he still continued to go.

Big church is important.

Don't let agitation lead to isolation.

I'm I'm tired of church.

I went there once and it was it was, you know, someone did something to me or didn't see me or shook my hand, funny, or whatever it was.

Someone down the aisle looked at me with squinty eyes and kind of gave me a bad vibe.

I don't like the church.

Who cares?

There's a bigger value here in the church.

We get along.

I don't have, I have to love you.

You know that.

There's a value there.

I mean I have to literally, if I've got an offense, I have to work it out.

I'm not permitted to live with that offense in my heart.

That's a hard thing to do sometimes.

And I'm the one who's often the one whose feed people have an issue with.

And so that's the issue.

I have to work that out.

It's not about personality, it's not about age, gender, ethnicity.

The church is a place of community.

It's also when I read the scripture, it's a place of commitment.

They they were they were devoted to one another.

It wasn't just built, the church wasn't built on hype, it was built on habits.

They gathered together regularly, they connected, they weren't just passionate, they were devoted to each other.

And it overcame the devotion was power than more powerful than their emotion, their feelings.

And how many of you know that devotion isn't a feeling, it's a decision.

You have to make that decision.

They're committed, they were devoted to the apostles' teaching and were people of the word.

They they didn't cut that parts of the Bible apart and adding culture, they just went right to the scripture.

What does the scripture say?

Culture says, you know, stay if it feels right, but the word of God says stay because it is right.

Work it out.

Work it out.

The book doesn't need editing, the Bible doesn't need editing.

It's our heart that is hard, our heart that is callous, our heart that has been seared, and our heart needs to be repaired.

And the only way that happens is our heart gets washed and softened because of the word of God.

So the only hope is the word.

If the believers were devoted to the apostles' teaching, they were also devoted to the apostles.

Without commitment to leadership, no church can function.

You can't say you're committed to the teaching, but not the teacher.

And this was a signal of the church in Acts.

They were devoted, they watched, they sat at the feet in a place of saying, uh teach me so I got so I can learn.

Teach me so that I'm better.

In independent living, which the world is striving towards.

Independence is not a fruit of the spirit, it's a poison.

Living on your own, independent living, is not a life that God has created us and called us to live.

We live in a day where everyone wants a microphone, but no one wants accountability.

Give me a voice, give me a voice, give me a pulpit, give me a platform, and you want the voice, but you don't want the accountability.

Accountability comes with someone who has the right to say no to you and to adjust you and correct you.

So we all submit to authority.

We carry spiritual submission towards spiritual authority in our life.

God created order in the church, and there is definite authority.

It's in government.

We're not exempt from that.

As leaders, we must act as servants as Christ did, but we must also be permitted to lead like Christ did.

Commitment was the glue.

In the first church, we have this level of commitment to the apostles' teaching.

There's a commitment to fellowship, there's a bond of faithfulness without which it would have been impossible to build the New Testament church.

But the commitment was the glue that held the church together.

And a lot of it is like being married.

Um, when you got married, two became one.

For those of you who are married, you're no longer your own.

Wow, that's resounding.

There's power in that.

You get double the strength.

There's double the fight.

Right?

There's double the love.

One can send a thousand fleeing, like, you know, but two can send a legion fleeing.

Like you can send, you can say together, you're better.

And and it comes down, commitment is a glue that keeps the church together.

This is what God, Jesus died for the church, the people.

He says you got to commit to one another, you got to stay connected to one another.

And and it comes like convenience uh leaves when it gets difficult, but commitment digs in even deeper.

When things get difficult, you dig your heels in.

We're gonna face this.

We're not gonna bury our heads, we're gonna face this together.

And this isn't just a club that you visit, it's a covenant that you carry.

That's why Jesus, when when people were making vows in his day, he disapproved of them.

He says, Let your yes be yes or your no be no.

But there's no in between.

Commit hot or cold, but if you're lukewarm, I'll spit you out of my mouth.

Commitment is where people actually feel safe.

When you're in a place of commitment, you recognize that safety.

When you stay, people feel stronger.

You know that in a family, if parents stay committed, it's a value that gets passed on to your kids.

And your kids then walk with a greater confidence and security.

And your kids walk with the security of like, I know that my parents are walking together, are working things out.

You may not even be together, but you're working towards it.

You're you're working towards being together and being stronger, and that security and that value is there, and that that supersedes so much.

And I understand, like I understand all the factors and all the different marriage uh uh and parental structures that are having to be created today, but I'm telling you, we can all you know agree when we go to his word that wasn't God's intention.

God's intention was that there be commitment.

God's intention was never that there be a church split, never that there be divisions in the church, never that the church would be broken and torn and hurt and traumatized.

The fact is it happens and we're on the road to recovery, we're on the road to reconciliation.

But the fact is that God's intention was never to be there, and we're on that journey towards bringing things back to health and order.

We bring heaven to earth.

They were committed to prayer, the breaking of bread with one another.

Prayer wasn't just a pause in the action, it wasn't just okay, we're just gonna stop and pray.

Prayer was the power source behind every action.

Prayer was essential.

That's why our one of our values is pray first.

We pray first.

You find a situation, you encounter a situation that's stop, let's pray.

You find a situation, you find yourself in a corner, stop and pray.

Pray.

Pray is always the response.

It's not, it shouldn't be our reaction, it should be our first reaction, our first response.

Our relationship with the Lord is based on this commitment.

A committed church is an unstoppable church, committed to the word, committed to leaders, committed to each other, the table of of fellowship into prayer.

And because they were committed, God commissioned that church into the world, and it became a place and a and a and a people of power.

The church is a place of power because of that.

Now it doesn't happen first, it happens because it's a place of commitment.

Happens first because it's a place of devotion, happens first because it it's it's a place of community, and that power is a result of it.

And this what the church wasn't normal, the church was supernatural.

The scripture says that they were filled with awe.

Do you know what the word awe is?

I don't either.

It just means awe.

I think it's short for awesome.

It was so awe-inspiring, they couldn't even finish the word.

It was like, ah stopped.

Something I just got lost because of the awe in the moment.

Awe, the scripture says, came upon every soul who witnessed the signs of power.

This was a characteristic of the first church.

It was a place of awe.

People weren't just impressed, they were shook.

The place where they were in was shaken and they were filled with boldness, and they did things that other people just like left their heads scratching, going, What?

How could this happen?

Because it was awe-inspiring.

When you see a demonstration of power, you tend to uh to sometimes draw back.

Um, I remember going to the the Oregon coast as a kid, and my parents, much to my my mom's uh chagrin, my dad would be like, take us to the edge, and we'd see this massive wall of like waves crashing against the rocks.

He'd be like, You see that seal way down there?

And you're like, I'm gonna die.

And you're just caught in this moment.

No, the ocean doesn't have to put a it doesn't have to have a spotlight put on it to show its power, it just exists and is powerful.

And that's what happens.

Reals power, real power doesn't need a spotlight.

Real power, it just it creates one, it creates everyone looking in.

We went to this place called the devil's punch bowl, and it was a good idea.

Let's go down there.

No, let's not go down, just the name inspires like awe.

I'm not thinking about that.

Devil's Punch Bowl, I don't know.

How much more should we stand in awe when we witness the power of God?

Heaven is awe is heaven's attention grabber.

Like that you read the book of Acts, and the first church was a weird church.

It was just weird.

Like Peter walked, and and he people decide to line up on the side of him, like this side, that would have his shadow, and they put the sick in the place of his shadow, so that when Peter walked by, his shadow would rest on them, and his shadow would cause people to experience healing, and they would get up and well and be well.

Where's that in the Bible?

I don't know where that is in terms of like the precedence of that.

It was just something that made you go, wow.

Paul with the with the napkins and the kerchiefs, and he would he would lay them on people, and it was just like things were odd.

But it created an awe-inspiring factor.

When people left the church, they were filled with awe.

Wow.

The church doesn't just need words, it needs power.

The kingdom of God is not a kingdom that's based solely on words, but power.

The anointing upon preaching the gospel needs to be there, the preaching needs to be there, but the power needs to follow with signs and wonders.

Amen.

Miracles following.

Many of you know that six months ago my mom was diagnosed with stage four cancer, and we just decided at that moment we're gonna start believing because that's who we are, right?

We are believers.

Well, what do we believe in?

I believe in life that Jesus came to bring and give us life and that life more abundant.

Jesus came and purchased for us healing and restoration and recovery for our body.

So she faced cancer, and for six months, it's been uh seven since August uh of last year, it's been a battle, a battle to fight for for healing and for recovery.

And she had a completion of her uh of her um chemo, and that was terrible, and still like the the effects of that, and the highs and the lows, and the you know, the the coordination between all the and all the challenges that uh are in that process, the things that we walked into that were fully unknown.

And we walked in, and this last week, after like PET scans, PT scans, CT scans, blood scans, structural skeletal scans, all these scans, they came back and they said, we want to announce that she's cancer free.

Thank you.

Cancer free.

Cancer free from stage four cancer.

God can do what man says is impossible, God says it's possible.

We can do this.

The church is a place of power.

I'm not saying you're not gonna experience valleys and low points and heaviness along the way and depression and moods and fight the battle.

But this is a battle that can be fought.

We can fight for life, and there's still recovery, there's still healing needed, there's still concern, but you know what I saw in this moment?

I saw an unstoppable church.

I saw a church that came behind and said, Hey, I've got food, I've got care, I've got skip the dishes, I've got food, like whatever you need, we're willing to care and step in.

I've got prayer, I've got reports, I've got messages, I've got things I can just drop off.

The church came behind, and there's so much love in our hearts, in our families' hearts, for the care and the concern for us in through this journey.

And we thank you for it.

We thank you for praying, we thank you for believing together and having faith together for healing.

And and it I know that there are so many that are going through things on their own here, and I'm challenging you today.

Don't be isolated.

The church cannot be separated, the church is better and stronger together when you're committed, you're committed together, and you're structured together, and there's an authority in the church, and you become like that spear with a tip on the end that can drive through the gates of hell.

The gates of hell cannot cannot stand against a united church.

We are an unstoppable point, and we're an unstoppable church.

Hallelujah.

I'd like to invite the worship team to come up.

Peter, on the day he was, he was going through his mix of emotions as Peter did.

Jesus has gone through the crucifixion, and he's Peter's just lost.

He's standing around a fire, and a little girl comes to him and says, Do you know I know who you are?

And he says, I don't think you do.

You are the one with Jesus, and he denies Jesus three times.

I'm not that man, I'm not the one, I am not the one.

And he hears the rooster cry, and it's a signal to him how he had denied Jesus three times.

He comes back to Jesus because Jesus has grace.

How many of you have denied Christ and walked away?

Like, I blew it.

And Jesus comes back.

He says, Peter, how are you doing?

Peter, Peter says, I'm gonna do this for you.

I'm gonna build the church.

He says, Peter, but do you love me?

He says, Well, yeah, I love you.

And Jesus says, then feed, feed my sheep.

He says, Well, do you do and then Jesus says, Do you love me?

He says, Yes, Jesus, I love you.

And Jesus says, Well, then tend to my sheep.

Tend to them.

And then he asks him a third time, like he's he's going back after his denials, and he's telling him about how he needs to overcome that sense of shame and guilt.

Where he said, I didn't know you, I didn't know you, I didn't know you.

Jesus is saying, Do you do you do you love me?

Yes, then do this.

This is how you do it.

You tend to my sheep, you care for my sheep, you tend to the lost ones, and he's saying, If you love me, you'll take care of my church, and you'll take care of one another.

You want recovery and you want restoration.

Don't drift yourself, don't, Peter, don't go out into the water alone.

Don't go away, come close.

Come within proximity, come together.

Don't like distance will create that distortion, but but closeness creates clarity.

And don't run away, come close.

Don't run away, come close.

Love my sheep, love my church, get close, find your healing.

Your healing is here.

I don't know what you're going through, what challenges you may be experiencing, what mountains you may be facing, but I'm telling you today, the church is an unstoppable church.

And the church is here for us, and the church can make a difference for you in your life.

Despite what may have been said or what agitations you might have, this is the hope for our world.

This is the hope for our families, for our households, for our city, for our nation, for the world.

The church.

This building could all fall over.

It's the church that will remain.

Because we have Christ.

It's not about a sign on us, on a structure or a brand that we.

Build it's because we know him and he knows us.

Would you stand with me?

Love the church like Jesus did.

He loved it.

He gave his life for it.

And Father, today, if you would be just participatory here and just raise your hands, if you could do that.

Just Father, we say the Spirit and the Bride, they say come.

Come, come, come close.

The Spirit and the Bride say come.

And Father, today, we just say yes.

Yes to you, Lord.

Yes to you, Lord.

Yes to you, Lord.

Hallelujah.

We know our hope is in you.

Our health is in you.

Our future is in you.

Our support, our our our recovery is in you.

Our solution is in you.

You are our hope today.

And Father, we come together as a church locked in, arm in arm, heart to heart, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, following the Father today.

To Lord, move the church to possess the land and to impose your kingdom, Lord, on every place in society, in education and family, and government and media and entertainment and business, finance.

Father, we bring it, Lord.

The church goes together.

And we thank you, Father, for that spirit that's in us that can that can take us, Lord, that where you can take us beyond where we could go alone, we can go there if we go there together.

We thank you, Father, for your devotion to us.

And today, Lord, we call our devotion back to you.

Say, you're worth it all.

You're worthy of it all.

You're worth all the honor and the glory and the praise.

You're worth all the love and the all majesty and all authority belongs to you.

And we follow you today as the head of the church, the leader of the church, and we thank you that we're loved.

And we thank you that you've got us in your hand and you're moving us forward in Jesus' name, moving us into our future, moving us into our destination, our destiny in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

Father, just let me just take a moment here.

I know that many of you have experienced this perhaps hundreds of times, but for the sake of the one that may be in the church today, if you're here today and you're you're here, but you've never had opportunity to give your heart to God and to believe in him.

And I just want to walk through that moment with you.

And as a church, if we would just pray this together in support of one another, let's just pray together.

Father, I accept this free gift of salvation.

I believe that Jesus died on the cross, and I for my sins, and I confess today that I am a sinner and I need your help.

But I also confess today is a new day, and I make you my Lord, and I put my hope in you, and I receive that gift of being made part of your family, no longer alone, but part of your family forever.

Amen.

Amen.

Let's give the Lord a round of applause today.

Let's just take a moment and let's just worship God.

Can we do that?

Let's close our time and worship.