VISION: Why Church? Becoming the Church Jesus Died For, Phil Chan

speak to us through your word and

through your vessel in Jesus name. Amen.

>> Thanks Christian.

Whoa.

[cheering] Hey, good morning church. I'm

super honored to be here. Super honored

to be part of this church. Our family

had some big news we celebrated this

week.

We officially weaned our last child.

Emphasis on last.

So that was great. And to celebrate, uh,

Esther went out of town.

I had no help.

It was a little stressful.

Um, so, uh, it was awesome taking one of

my infants to my work Zoom meetings.

They were okay with it, so it worked out

fine.

However, um I did hit a low moment on

Wednesday when you know you just the

first day you're like, "Let's do this.

Let's do this. I got this." You just

round up and

that energy goes away real quick.

And Wednesday, I was feeling it. I was

feeling kind of burnt out, a little

despair, what I get myself into. And if

you're a husband, you know, and your

wife's on a trip, the last thing you

want to tell them is how hard it is.

So, you know, he's just texting.

Everything is good. Emoji, emoji, emoji,

emoji.

You want them to have a good time,

right? So, you just take it like a man.

All those diapers.

Just take it. So, I had a low moment on

Wednesday and sometimes when I

personally when I hit a low moment, I I

lean in to myself.

The last thing I want to do is actually

be a burden on other people, which is

kind of, you know, to my destruction.

But I was really grateful my community

group decided to adopt me this week.

So, yeah, they don't know this, but when

they said, "Hey, we're going to pick up

your kids and we're going to feed them."

I was like, I didn't cry, but I almost

cried. Okay.

And I was like, I was really blessed,

you know. Uh Amy picked up my kids and

fed them dinner. Daniel just said, "Come

over for dinner. We're going to feed you

some food." They packed me lunch for the

next day. They packed me my kids lunch

for the next day. The next day, Candace

took all five of my kids

so I could do work meetings and prepare

for this sermon.

So, thank you.

Another nod to the power of community.

makes me like I tell Esther all the time

I love church so much.

I love church so much. Let me ask you a

question to start this off. How did you

first step foot into a church?

Just think about your first time.

What did a friend bring you?

It's creepy here.

But I wanted engagement so I went

closer. Stay. Okay, I'll stay back. Be

real. Feels like a horror story as I'm

like just about to say something scary.

Uh, did a That's all creaky here, too.

Okay, I'll pace here. I'll pace here.

Um, did a friend bring you? Did a family

member?

Someone I don't know if you're here.

Someone hooked you in like told you

there was free coffee and you're here.

I'll tell you how I first stepped into a

church.

Dodgeball.

I was in third grade and somebody told

me that a church down the road had

dodgeball

and that's all I needed.

I had a jolly time. It was amazing.

And 30 years later, here I am preaching

the Lord.

I if you know anything about me, I love

the local church. Like I'm a huge fan of

local church. I gave my life to Jesus. I

met Jesus through the local church. All

my best friends are from the church. I

met my wife at church. My greatest

maturation seasons and lessons that I've

learned as a man are through the church.

My greatest friends and my life stories

which make me belly laugh and cry at the

same time are from church. I absolutely

love church. It's the best thing in the

world. At the same time, I've also

experienced the many things that make

people walk away from church.

I've seen moral failure at church.

I've seen leadership scandals

and people taking money.

I've seen leaders rise and fall

tragically.

Uh I've had my home church give up on me

when I was in seminary.

I've seen disappointment. I've had

leaders overlook me, forget about me,

and not believe in me.

You know, if there's one thing I'm

really grateful for this morning,

like really, I'm not like boasting at

all. I'm just like really grateful is

that God has preserved my love for the

local church.

God has preserved my love for the local

church. Christians who asked me to

preach on the local church today and I

was like, I felt the Lord on it. I was

like, cool. And I was uh a couple weeks

ago I was preparing and thinking and I

was at In-N-Out.

I realize a lot of my stories have to do

with In-N-Out,

but it's just a great value for a family

of seven

ROI. Good. Right. So, I'm at In-N-Out

and I was thinking about, you know, you

just you got to do background work when

you got multiple jobs. you know, you

just you're feeding your kids and you're

just thinking about this message and I

was like, "Lord, what do you think about

the local church?" And I he just began

downloading to me while I was in and

out. And he brought this passage to me

and I I'll never look at this passage

the same. It's in Hebrews 12.

It is talking about Jesus going to the

cross. And this is such a fascinating

passage that you have to like put it in

your heart. He says that who talking

about Jesus, he says, "Who for the joy

set before him

endured the cross.

Most of us

think about the passion of Christ that

we think about the suffering of Christ.

We don't think about the joy set before

him.

And then he was I was sitting there

thinking about this and he said, "Phil,

this joy that I had when I died is what

I think about when I think about the

church.

every excruciating step towards Calvary,

they nailed him, made him carry that

wooden cross,

he said he had joy in his heart

when he thought about what this

sacrifice was for.

And it was not a burden

that he had joy deep in his heart. And I

was in in and out. And I just started

like tearing up because I could feel

God's heart for his church.

And I realized that Jesus is committed

to his church.

Somebody once said, "Phil, you can give

up on the church that Jesus the day that

Jesus gives up in the church and he is

never giving up on the church."

I said that list of positive experiences

and negative experiences at that I've

had at the church because it's actually

very natural for us as people to say I'm

going to commit to church if my list of

positive experiences outweigh my list of

negative experiences. Right?

I'm going to say something a little

bold. I hope that you can receive it

this morning. But just bear with me.

Okay?

If our decision to commit to a church is

based on whether our positive

experiences outweigh our negative

experiences, we are not acting like

Christians. We are acting like

consumers.

We are acting like consumers consuming

consuming and reviewing and rating a

product.

Jesus's convict commitment to the church

is not based on consumerism. It is based

on conviction.

It is based on a vision of who he sees

the church should be and is. And that

what drives him, what compels him, it

makes him committed to the very end.

And I realized something frontier.

We need to be grounded not in

consumerism. We need to be grounded in

conviction.

We need to be grounded in revelation of

what God thinks about the church.

Because this is the this is the most

most important thing. If we understand

how Jesus sees the church, if we

understand how Jesus sees us, we will

actually rise to become that church.

Most of our shortcomings are because we

actually don't know who we are, who

we're meant to be.

And when we understand who Jesus sees

us, that's when we say, "That's who I

want to be. That's who I am. And that's

who I'm going to be." Now,

I felt this this is a timely message

because as you know, we're moving into a

new building, which is really amazing

and unbelievable, right?

But I felt the Lord say, we're not just

called to move into a new building.

We're called to a new maturity

because this is a new this is a mature

blessing. And if we frontier are

immature, the mature blessing will crush

us.

We'll be we'll be handed amazing gift

and we'll be still like a toddler that

doesn't know good from wrong.

We need to rise into that which Jesus

sees in us. And so this is a timely

message because I want Frontier to be

greater. I want a maturity to outsize

our blessing.

And the only way to do that is if we see

what Jesus sees in the church.

You feeling me today? Amen.

All right, I'm done.

Just kidding. I got a few more points.

All right, the question is, what does

Jesus see? What does Jesus see in us? I

got a few things. As I was preparing,

these started lighting my heart on fire

as I I was I realized what Jesus sees in

us. Number one, Jesus sees the church's

beauty.

Jesus sees the beauty of the church. The

book of Revelation, which I love,

describes um one of my just a

gut-wrenching book. At the end, he

describes the the church descending out

of heaven like a beautiful bride. I'm

going to read this. I have this passage

up. Can you pull it up? There it is.

Come, I will show you the bride, the

wife of the lamb. And he carried me away

in the spirit to a great high mountain

and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem

coming down out of heaven from God

having the glory of God its radiance

like a most rare jewel like a jasper

clear as crystal. You know at the end of

time it's I love this passage because it

reveals that how Jesus sees the church.

He sees her as beautiful as on her

wedding day.

And that's such an apt picture because

she sees her that she has herself

beautiful, not just in appearance, but

in character, in virtue, in maturity, in

wisdom. I still remember when I got

married, when Esther walked down the

aisle, it's just like, wow, she is

ready. She has made herself ready for

the day of her wedding. And it is the

most beautiful thing when a man puts his

casts his eyes on his his fiance who is

now his bride and she has made herself

ready. And we are to be wed together for

forever. in this life where we share one

heart, one mind, one vision, we're ready

to partner. That is what Jesus is

looking for in the church. That's what

Jesus, that's how Jesus sees the church.

And this is really fascinating to me

because out of everyone in the entire

cosmos,

Jesus is the most aware of the church's

shortcomings.

He knows all of Frontier's faults.

He knows all the faults of the church

down the road. He knows all the faults

of the church down the city, in a

different state line, in a different

country. He knows every single church's

faults and shortcomings. Not just in

this time, but in all time. And yet in

the Bible, when he describes the church

at the end of time, all he can see is

her beauty and magnificence.

That's what he chooses to see.

Because in order for the church to

become who she is, she must know that he

sees her that way

because of the vision of her beauty that

moves him and drives him. That even

though she is not yet there, she will be

one day.

And he is able to overcome and overlook

and work with his shortcomings because

she may not be there now. She's not

perfect. She makes mistakes. She goes

through scandals, but she one day when

the time arrives when all eternity is

coming to pass when the bride is going

to meet Jesus, she will make herself

ready on that day.

That is profound.

That is really profound. This is really

important for us church

because you will experience it.

failures in the church.

If you're a new believer, and I'm so

glad that you are, you will experience

disappointment at the church. I'm just

It's not if, it's just when.

And if you've been around the block,

how many of you here have experienced

disappointment and hurt in the church?

I have a question for you today.

Here's the question. Are we going to be

more offended at the imperfections of

the church on her rehearsal day or more

enamored by her beauty on her wedding

day?

I'm going say that again. Are we going

to be more offended by her imperfections

on her rehearsal day or more enamored by

her beauty on her wedding day?

This is a really critical question

because let me go to earthly marriages

for a second. You know, one of the one

of the signs that you know you're headed

to divorce

is that when you start showing contempt

for your spouse,

when you actually start despising them,

that is one of the red flags that you

are

imminently heading towards divorce.

And it when you're in that place of

where you want to where you have

contempt for your spouse, it's you're in

a really hard place because you want

their spouse to change. But here's a

challenging thing. When you have

contempt for your spouse, you want them

to change, but you will not know the

difference between you wanting them to

change because you care for them or you

wanting them to change because you're

hurt.

How many of you know that you want

someone to change because you're hurt?

The output and the fruit of your words

causes destruction, not life.

How many you guys know that

when you're hurt, you hurt people? And

this is such a critical distinction

because Jesus, when he sees the church,

he sees her as on her wedding day, not

on her rehearsal day. It informs how he

speaks to her. It informs how he leads

her. It informs how he cherishes her. It

informs how he loves her despite her

imperfections and flaws. So, Can I ask

you something?

Are you like Jesus

in the way that you treat the church in

her imperfections?

Because he sees her as beautiful.

And if you have ever insulted someone's

wife, you know what comes next.

He loves her to death.

And he's looking for partners that will

see her likewise.

That's how he sees us. Frontier, we're

not This is one of the healthiest

churches I've ever been to. But we are

not perfect and we never will be. So if

you want to stay here, I'm just telling

you, brother Ger loins.

But he's looking for people that can see

us as beautiful because only then, even

when we are imperfect, we can actually

make a contribution towards health.

He sees her beauty. Number two, he sees

her devotion.

At the end of the time, at the end of

the time, he sees your devotion. I have

this another passage from Revelation. It

showed up. I'm read it

next. There it is. Um, Revelation 12.

It's talking about the church. Um, it

says, "The church conquered him by the

blood. They conquered him by the blood

of the lamb and by the word of the

testimony. For they loved their lives

not even unto death. For they loved not

their lives unto death."

In the fullness of time, Jesus is going

to get a church that is fully devoted to

him.

Absolutely in love with him.

Fully mature in her love.

And you know, there's a passage where

Jesus says, "What is the greatest

commandment? That you will love the Lord

your God with all your heart, your mind,

and your soul."

And I believe it's not just a command.

It's a promise that one day this will

happen. The church will love him as he

loved her. You know what the worst

feeling in the world is?

It's unrequited love.

It's loving someone that doesn't love

you back. I haven't been singing in a

long time, but I remember

first grade

Her name was Stella

and I liked her for the remaining

reason. The only reason that a boy in

first grade would like her. I thought

she was pretty.

But she did not like me back.

And I was crushed as a first grader. I

was like, "What's wrong with me? Why why

doesn't she like me? There's just like

And then I thought about it as an adult

and I realized

because I was in first grade.

[laughter]

Uh, Stella, if you see this, I'm sorry

it didn't work out.

Unrequited love is is a painful thing is

to love someone and to not love you

back.

You know Jesus, he made the first step

in his love towards us. He says,

"Greater love has no one this that one

should lay down his life for his

friends. Jesus took the first step and

he laid down his life for us. And right

now, what is he waiting for? He's

waiting for a church that will

reciprocate

a love of equal measure in return.

Let me talk about that love for a second

because love in our culture has such a

blurry such a blurry definition,

especially here in America. I want to be

really clear when I say love Jesus back.

And this is really important that you

understand this because so often in our

culture, love is described as a feeling.

But in the Bible, love is described as a

cost.

Love is the sacrifice you are willing to

pay for the one that you actually care

about.

There is no love on discount.

There is no such thing as cheap love.

If you love someone, you will

demonstrate it by the sacrifice you make

for them. Am I right? If I say I love

you with my words, but my actions don't

say, that tells me my love is cheap and

it's not real love. Jesus is looking for

a church that is willing to love him

with cost.

And that's a kind of a jarring thing to

say here in America because most people

would like Christianity. They want to

they want to love Jesus, but they want

Jesus to be a side piece. They want

Jesus to be a a hobby they have in the

side.

But Jesus said that if you would come

after me, you must take up your cross

and follow me. You must deny yourself.

Take up your cross and follow me. What

is it? What is that? That that's just a

such a hard statement. And before you

think this is aeticism or

self-punishment, I'll tell you what it

is. He is looking for lovers.

Because when you're in love, there is no

cost.

You ask me if I would do anything for my

wife and kids, I would lay down my life

for them in a second.

True love is measured by the cost. And

he at the end of time, there is a church

that would not even love their lives

unto death.

That is the church he's looking for.

Mature, understands the cost and willing

to deny themselves and take up the

cross.

That is the love that the church has

when she comes down the aisle that makes

moves his heart and says, "This is my

bride." She is matching my love with

hers.

How do we get there?

How does one even get this love? I'm

going to share a story that taught me

about how you actually engender such a

love. This is a story in the early

2000s. I was part of a church planting

network and they were doing great work

in Afghanistan in the early 2000s. As

you know, we were at war and there's a

lot of tensions there. But amazingly,

this church planting team had a lot of

power and they were filled with the Holy

Spirit and they were saying they were

seeing Muslims see a vision of man and

white in their dreams because Jesus was

coming to set them free and show that

there's a father in heaven that loves

them and knows them and wants to have a

relationship with them and give them

eternal life and they were willing to go

to a war torn country and tell them

about it except

one time

some people kidnapped them and put them

in prison. This became a huge thing on

the news. And it's really interesting,

just a hot tip, when you watch the news,

all you can see is the geopolitical

narrative

of the war, what this means. They had

these prisoners, but what is always

fascinating is what the church is

actually doing on the ground. And they

were a part of our church in that work.

And we knew that they were imprisoned

and kidnapped because they were doing

the work of the gospel. Well, the White

House got involved

and they sent the team and negotiated

them out, thank God, which is great. And

the pastor met them at the the air strip

at the airport and they came back out of

prison and they met them and embraced

and they talked and they're like, "How

are you doing? What's going on? How are

you feeling?" They're just And you know

what the first thing um those

missionaries said to the pastor was?

said,

"When can we go back?

How soon can we go back?

God is on the move and there's work to

be done and

how soon can we go back?"

And I remember them interviewing them

and asking like, "Why would you do this?

You just got out of prison. Like, why

would you go back?"

And they said these two words to me that

has forever marred me

when they asked why they would go back.

They said

it's because he's worthy.

They said because he's worthy.

He's worthy.

Because God so loved the world that he

gave his one and only son that whoever

should believe in him should not perish

but have everlasting life. And we're

nobodies. Don't you understand, guys?

We're absolutely nobodyies. It doesn't

matter what's on your profile, what you

did in this life. Nothing of that

matters. We're nobodies. And God, he he

sent his son so that we could be

somebody and have eternal life.

And this is worth everything in the

world.

You ask me if I go to prison again. He's

worthy.

He's worthy.

you know, I help uh the setup team here

on Sunday mornings and it's just doing

church in America is just so different

than other countries, you know, and I'm

just reminded that, you know, I just

resolved in my heart, this kind of

sounds stupid, but

like I was just never going to complain

about the coffee,

you know?

I'm never going to complain because

right now I know in Iran where it's the

country with one of the fastest growing

churches in the world, there's a woman

out there that is risking being raped in

the street in order to attend Bible

study.

And I bet you if you asked her why she

would do it, she would say he's worthy.

It is our vision of him which feels love

and devotion. When you see how awesome

and wonderful he is. You know most

leaders in this life, we have such a

celebrity culture here in this world.

You know, you know what's fascinating

about celebrities and leaders, the

closer you look at their lives, the more

you look get to know them, the longer

you spend time with them, the [snorts]

more you will see their imperfections.

and the easier it is for you to be

jaded. You know what I'm talking about?

That glowy feel you had about them when

you see them up close.

Did you know that Jesus is the only

person that the longer you look at him,

the more you fall in love with him?

He's worthy.

And he is looking for a church that's

fully devoted to him, that will see his

worthiness and be willing to spend their

lives in sacrifice because this is what

love is. Love is the cost that we're

willing to pay and he's looking for that

church.

Okay? He sees her beauty. He sees her

devotion. The last is he sees her

purpose in the world.

Oh, this is my favorite. You know, like

I just wanted to like Jesus came to save

the world, but we have to really pay

attention to the manner in which he did

this.

I find this so fascinating. Once you

catch this, you will catch the vision of

the church. Trust me, I want to leave

you with this, guys. He didn't come as a

politician.

He didn't come as a ruler with an army.

He didn't come as an inventor of a new

technology.

He didn't come in all these things that

even now, even today, our world is

looking for as possible solutions in the

world. What did he come? He came as a

man, a teacher that says to men and

women and children, come follow me.

Come follow me. Individuals that will be

transformed from the inside out.

And if one person is transformed from

the inside out, that person transforms

another person from the inside out.

That is the strategy that Jesus used

when he came to save the world. You see

Jesus died and he rose again and he

ascended the heavens which is amazing

but be he left behind a church.

This is fascinating to me because the

work that Jesus started on the cross, he

expects the church to finish.

Because right before he left, he said to

all his disciples, "Go, Matthew 25, go

and make disciples of all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the

Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit,

teaching them to obey all that I've

commanded you, and I will be with you

surely to the end of the age." He said

to Peter, "On this rock, I will build my

church and the gates of hell will not

overcome it." He has built his church.

What he started on the cross, he expects

the church to finish.

You and I are called to a purpose and to

a story that is written in eternity.

It is profound and amazing.

And there's something unique about this

story. How many of you guys uh watch the

movie Marvel's Avengers Endgame? I just

want to know how far this analogy is

going to go. Okay. Seriously, this is

going be like a 30%.

I'll take 50. I'll take 50. Okay.

So, I'll try to explain it for you guys

watched it. Okay. Um they're like

fighting this big cosmic entity, right?

Thanos.

And then they're about to fight him and

this guy named Doctor Strange. How many

goes Dr. Strange? He's like doing his

thing where he's like

And then they're like, "What are you

doing, Doctor Strange?" And he's like,

"I'm looking at all the possible

permutations of possibilities of whether

we win this and defeat him." And they're

like, "Well, yeah, yeah, like how many p

possibilities?" He's like, "I've like

done millions and millions." And then he

they're like, "In how many scenarios do

we come out on top?" And he's like,

"Just one."

And uh that becomes this thread for the

rest of the movie. Uh I'm sorry if I was

going to spoil it, but you know it came

out like eight years ago. So

you're at fault. All right.

So the second part of the movie towards

the end where they're like about to

really fight this guy, right? And Tony

Stark, the Iron Man guy, is like he's

about to make a critical decision,

a real critical one. And Doctor Strange

looks at him. And they make eye contact

and he just holds up his finger. He

goes,

"You know what I'm talking about." Okay.

One, not Oh, come on, guy.

It's like one. And he's referencing what

you're about to do. This is the one

chance. This is the only possibility.

Let me tell you something, church.

You are the one shot.

There is no backup plan.

It is the church or nothing.

What does that mean?

It means that the church is the hope of

the world.

It means that you you you you

are the hope of the world.

Acts 17 says that God put every person

in every place in hopes that they might

reach out their hands and feel them. Did

it ever occur to you? You're sitting

here, you're all different than stuff.

It never occurred to you that you are

alive today.

You're in the culture and race that you

were born into. You know that people

that you know and you went to the school

that did you been to you do work this

job that you worked at very specifically

you because God has ordained that you

sitting in this chair are called to make

his mission happen in a way that only

you can.

That job that you go to, you might be

the only Christian that someone sees.

You're the only church they know

and only literally only you have access

to them.

You are the hope of the world. That's

how Jesus sees the church.

He sees him taking on the mission of God

and carrying out his love. We are part

of the greatest and most amazing and

grandest story that's ever been told.

Let me ask you something, especially if

you're part of the industry peeps. All

right. I don't know what it's like to

act, so this is my only chance at

pretending like I know. Okay. Let me ask

you this hypothetically. Okay.

Hypothetically, would you rather be a

lead actor or actress in a short film

that nobody cares about

or a background actor in the greatest

movie of all time?

One that is told for centuries?

Which one?

Guys,

we are part of the greatest story

that's ever been told.

There there is a God.

He made the world. He said that it was

good. It was tarnished by evil. And he's

looking for people to bring his lost

sons and daughters back into the fold.

And everything that you do touches not

this life but eternity.

Come on, church.

This is what it means to be part of the

church.

I'm getting kicked up.

Keep going. Okay,

man. I'm going to tell you a last story.

Okay. My favorite story.

Don't do me, Simeon.

Don't do me, Simeon. All right. My my

one of my favorite stories of recent,

you know, Brandon is one of my favorite

guys, and he just loves bringing people

to church. It's awesome. And one time he

was like, "Hey, man. I'm bringing these

people to church. They really need to

hear Jesus." So, he's like, "Hey,

Christian, Christian, can you do like an

altar call this Sunday?" Because like,

they're ready. They're ready. And

Christian's like, "Yeah, you know, but

Christian's like doing a thousand other

things." So, you know, so Sunday

happens. He got his friends here and

message is happening. They're getting in

touch, you know, and Brandon is just

like, "Yeah,

where's that altar call at?" You know,

he's God's going to get him. God's going

to get him, you know.

And one thing Christian's done with the

message, you got worship team coming out

just like this guy.

But no altar call.

Brandon's like, "OH MAN, OH MAN, oh man,

oh man, what do we do now?" And so

Brandon's like, "Forget it. I'm gonna

just do it. I'm g just do it." So he

turns to them. He say, "Hey man." Turns

to them and say, "Hey, you guys you guys

want to know Jesus? Do you guys want you

guys want to make Jesus part of your

life?" And one of them is like, "Yeah,

let's do it." And the other guy was

like, "I would I would like nothing more

than that.

And he grabs, you know, Jon who's

basically a pastor here, you know, and

they and they just pray for 20 minutes.

We got other people from our community

group there, you know, these guys start

the relationship with Jesus. And such a

beautiful thing.

And I was like, you know, it's not just

Brandon and Jan.

It's the people that welcome them at the

door.

It's the setup team that made the

coffee. It's the worship that team that

got here at six something or seven and

practiced and and hosted his presence.

It's the prayer team that made the

connections happen. I was like, dude,

everybody

everybody gets a fruit.

Everybody gets a piece of the pie. Guys,

investing in your church is the most

impactful thing you can ever do in your

entire life.

Literally every single week somebody

gets touched for eternity.

Some people wait their whole life to

make an impact like that. And you

telling me that I get to do that every

single week and all I need is some

people to sign up for kids.

What a bargain.

Everybody's looking for a mission to be

part of that is greater than their own

life.

And if you're part of a church, you get

to be part of that.

Let's stand, guys.

Which part of I'm starting to fall in

love more with the church, not because

I'm special, but simply because I'm

beginning to see how Jesus sees the

church. And I want to ask you, which

part of the way Jesus sees the church is

lacking in you right now?

Maybe you're here and I want to speak to

you. If you've had church hurt, a leader

affected you, and none of that excuses

anything.

I want to invite you to have the

strength of heart that Jesus had to see

her beauty on her wedding day more than

the imperfections of her rehearsal day.

Maybe you're here and you and you're a

casual and you know it and you're

hearing the call to lay down your life

for Jesus to actually make that part of

your life because you want to be a

devoted

because that's what God is tugging in

your heart. Maybe that's you.

And lastly, maybe you've never known the

purpose and the meaning of church and

how impactful we are to the world.

Maybe now it's the time to roll up your

sleeve and say, "I want to commit.

I want to I want to put my hand to the

plow because he has his hand in his."

Maybe you're listening to this and

you're not even part of Frontier, but

you just you just need to commit to your

local church, whatever it is.

But let's just spend some time in

worship and respond.

Definitely not worship the church, but

to love him and see him and how he sees

us.