Home Team: Band of Brothers with Pastor Clayton Tyner

Welcome to the MetaCurch Podcast.

My name's Clayton.

I'm the pastor here at MetaCurch.

And my hope is that today's podcast finds you at the perfect time in your life that God uses it to inspire.

Alright, MetaCurch, how you guys doing?

Yeah.

I want to welcome you in.

If you're new with us, my name is Clayton.

I'm the lead pastor here, and uh today's service is gonna operate uh a little bit differently than most of our services because today we have our life team launch.

I hope you guys are excited about that.

We've had life team leaders, they've been in training for the past couple of months.

They are ready to set up areas in our city, different nights of the week, different places to come together and to get in community.

We're gonna wrap up our home team series here in a minute, but first I have a couple of announcements to make, some exciting things that are coming up.

Uh, Meta Church, we have been growing in our Sunday services.

Seems like each week we're adding more and more people.

That's very exciting.

You guys know we're in a season of transition.

Uh, we had a tenant in here, Lucky Draw Bingo.

We bought them out of their lease, and we have chairs on the way.

For now, we're in temporary chairs.

Uh, a couple of weeks ago, we went to First Presbyterian Church downtown and borrowed a hundred chairs.

Last week, we were so full, we texted them in the middle of services and said, if you have any more chairs, we'll take them.

We added 60 more chairs, which it's a good thing that we did because we are continuing to fill many, many of them up.

And so here's what we're gonna do on October 2nd.

We are going to add back our third service.

Yeah.

Oh, all of our night owls just said amen for the first time.

This is perfect.

If you're like always 45 minutes late to this service, just keep showing up exactly when you've been showing up.

You'll be early for the 115.

We're hoping not only to spread out our current congregation across three services, uh, but that we will also make a lot of room for new people.

We have another exciting announcement.

Now that we have full use of the building full-time, we're gonna move in to a phase one renovation, and we're gonna focus our energy in this first round of construction on having a brand new MediKids experience.

So we're gonna put the kids first.

We're very excited about that.

I want to acknowledge something to all of you, just so y'all know, we are aware of this.

The content of Metakids, once they get into their rooms, is top tier.

We have an incredible staff who love your kids, who are teaching them truths at age-appropriate levels, but we are aware that the container has not been great.

That is the one part of the Sunday experience here that really has been tough.

We're aware that you're checking your kids in in the auditorium, often while music is playing.

We're aware that we've been putting your kids basically in a concession stand and some office space.

We know these things, and that's why we're prioritizing it.

Uh, man, all of this is possible, number one, because God is with this movement.

He's moving through all of y'all.

He's been blessing us and growing us, not just in numbers, but in impact in because you have shown up, you've given your time, you've given your energy.

Many of you are giving financially, have made all of this possible.

So give God a hand and then we'll get into the message.

We're focused in this series on community, and we're focused on community through our life teams.

Life teams is where we provide an opportunity for you to get in intentional community, and we are so big on this because we keep seeing God moving so powerfully through our life team ministry.

We have another example of that today.

I want you guys to check out this video.

My journey coming to church, I was 40 years old and divorced, and it was probably the lowest point of my life.

Honestly, the first time I went there, I was so uncomfortable because it's not when I was used to coming to church and hearing after the people, I wasn't really because I was very hard to make a little bit of a before I found a church.

Um I was raised in the nomination and I was going through a very low period.

I have a very stressful job in the care universe that I've been doing it for like 38 years.

It's really hard to recharge and regenerate, and I was trying to do it on my own.

And this is how I know that God listens.

Like, I get a text from Bernadette out of the blue, and she had left the unit, and she said, Hey, uh, my church is starting a life team.

How would you like to go?

And she's like, we don't have to go to church, we're just gonna meet and we're gonna talk about things and you know, tough things, and just you know, try to help each other get through life.

There was something about Bernadette that um cry.

She just exuded this radiant.

And she said, you know, I just had this thirsty soul and I found this place and I just wanted that so badly.

Like I was so thirsty, like I just wanted to drink that, and I just knew that I needed that.

I feel like the the rap sheets, there's some like they help spark communication and talk.

I mean, some of the questions spark things that maybe I hadn't thought of, or I head deep down inside, and the next thing I know I'm talking about it and crying and and working things out with people around me that know me and love me, and it just makes you feel so good.

One thing uh metachurch encourages uh our life teams um is to serve.

And you know, me together, move together, and we definitely like to move together.

Um our favorite is Haven for Hope, and it's a kitchen run by the food bank, and we love to serve the more the breakfast 6 a.m.

to 9 a.m.

and then come to church.

So every so Sunday mornings try to do that at least once a m once a month.

We love we love getting up early and going and serving and then coming to church and worshiping, and it's awful.

It's maybe a better person.

That's what I love about this place, and I just love that what Bernadette said about we're all jacked up and we're just trying to get through life together.

And I'm like, amen.

We're all not perfect.

And I was looking for something, and God found me, and God showed me that it was him that I needed through people, loving people, and people that care, and to be able to go someplace and not have to be perfect and wear the right clothes or say the right things or do the right things and still be loved.

That's amazing.

It's truly amazing.

Uh, I could probably pray and dismiss uh just out of that video.

I mean, it really does summarize so well some of the powerful things that we're seeing inside of our life teams.

You guys know this, but at MetaCurch, we meet together, and say it with me, we move together.

And we meet together in order to get ourselves in line and get on the same page and go out and move.

And let me remind you, as we've said every week this series, we are the church.

We meet and we move.

The church is not this service, it's not this building, it's not the staff, it's not the pastors.

The church is the movement of God's people.

That's you and me moving together, and movement is application of the truth of God into the power of God lived out in our everyday lives.

And the reason that life teams matter so much is because application happens in community.

This right here is not community.

Like Andy Stanley says, community doesn't happen in rows, it happens in circles, it doesn't happen hundreds of people at a time, it happens in small groups of eight or ten or twelve people really doing life together.

Here's why community matters it gives you the keys to application.

What you need is accountability.

We saw this in week one.

We're not ring chasers, we're not seeking our own glory at the expense of others.

It gives you authenticity, a place where you can be really real, where you can be your most vulnerable self, where you don't have to armor up and protect, but instead you can allow people to walk alongside you, and it gives you alliance.

And alliance is what we are focusing on today.

Alliance is this trusted group of allies, people who have your back, people who will stand with you through the hardest parts of life.

We're gonna talk about alliance briefly today in a message called Band of Brothers.

Would you pray with me?

God, we love you and we thank you for this time.

I pray, God, that as we get ready to launch, that you would stir in people's hearts if they have a need for community.

God, there are some who are here today and they already have it, God.

They have surrounded themselves with people who are intentionally following after you.

But if we do not have that, I pray we would take a next step of finding a life team and getting that all-important alliance in our life.

We love you.

And we pray these things in Jesus' name.

And if you're ready to get going, say amen.

Amen.

We normally plan a 70-minute service.

That's what we plan for.

Sometimes we're a little shorter, sometimes, like last week, we go a little bit over, but normally we shoot for 70 minutes.

Today, we're gonna try to hit a 50-minute service, and here's why because at the end, we're gonna give you 20 minutes to go over, look at the life teams that are launching, see what days they're at, what times they're on, who's leading them, and we're gonna let you do all of that while your kids are still in Medikids, okay?

So we're gonna have a shorter service, we're gonna do this life team launch.

We're talking about alliance and band of brothers, for most of you, what comes to mind is the mini-series about a group of soldiers who are from different walks of life, different worldviews, different perspectives, different political persuasions, but they come together on the field of battle and they form these bonds that are some of the strongest bonds you can ever form in your life.

In the history of the United States, we had a lot of large-scale ground wars for most of our history.

We had the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, we had both world wars, we had the Korean conflict, we had the Vietnam War, we had all of these wars where there were tens of thousands of foot soldiers who were down in the trenches, in the foxholes together.

And what happened as people came back is psychologists started realizing that soldiers returning home were having a difficult time finding the same level of bond with people in their everyday life that they had with the soldiers that they fought alongside.

See, war is this moment that brings all of the aspects we've been talking about in community into the forefront.

That it's not an option to do anything but be held accountable and hold others accountable beside you.

Your lives are on the line.

There's no time for pretense.

You have to be real, authentic, vulnerable.

You have a common goal, and you're using your training to apply your skills together, and all of that is heightened to the highest, highest level.

And so you come back with community with strong, strong bonds.

Now, it's been a while since we've had a large-scale ground war.

And so one of the things that simulates those kinds of bonds for us are team sports.

And if you grew up playing sports, one of the things that happens is you have a common goal, you're held accountable by a group, you're training together and applying that together.

If you're a good team, then you'll be vulnerable with one another, showing your weaknesses so other people can fill in the gaps.

And what happens when you have a home team and you're all fighting for the same common cause is it doesn't really matter how different you are or how different your upbringing or backgrounds might be, you come together and you try to achieve a collective goal.

I spent all of middle school right outside of Washington, DC, on the East Coast, and right before ninth grade, we moved to Lampasas, Texas.

It's only like two hours away from here, and many of you have not heard of it.

This is a place, remember, I'm coming from DC, where people legit ride horses.

They actually wear cowboy hats, they've got Wranglers and buckles.

I thought this was stuff for television only, okay?

I had nothing in common.

I didn't know how I would make friends, but I joined the basketball team, and once I had a home team, the community followed in its footsteps.

And we're at risk because, as we've talked about every week, our society has become more and more and more solely focused on the individual.

My glory, even at your expense, my armor instead of my vulnerability.

And the more we become focused on ourselves, the more we lose sight of the power of community.

And community gives us alliance.

Alliance are these strong bonds that aren't based on you guys agreeing on everything or coming from the same worldview.

They are bonded through a shared experience of doing something significant together.

And this matters because in our path following Jesus, we need alliance with other Christ followers.

We need that community because the hard work of not just hearing what Jesus wants us to do, but actually applying it into our life, that hard work requires people around you to do that with you.

And we see this really clearly in the lives of three young Jewish men from the Old Testament.

In the book of Daniel, in the Old Testament, the Jewish scriptures of the Bible, Israel has been overtaken by Babylon, the dominant empire at the time.

And the king of Babylon, King Nebuchadnezzar, he came into Israel and he culled out of the society all of the best and brightest young men, and he brought them back to Babylon to serve in the kingdom.

And man, things were not going well for these guys.

They were captives in a foreign land.

And if that wasn't bad enough, the king had an idea.

In order to make everyone get on the same page religiously, he created a 90-foot statue that represented himself and the gods that he worshiped.

And he put out a decree to the kingdom that when the music played throughout the kingdom, everyone had to stop, face the statue, bow down, and give worship to it.

Now that was a real problem if you were a Jewish person from Israel, because the one true God of Israel had commanded that there are no other gods before him, and you are not to worship anything else.

And so there was a real dilemma.

Three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, decided to stand their ground.

And we pick up the story in Daniel chapter 3, verse 9.

Daniel 3:9

Some people who were really jealous of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came to the king.

In verse 9, they said to King Nebuchadnezzar, May the king live forever.

Don't you love a teacher's pet?

Oh, the best.

Verse 10 You as king have issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music must fall down and worship the gold statue.

Whoever does not fall down and worship, here was the punishment, will be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire.

In verse 12, they said, There are some Jews you've appointed to manage the province of Babylon.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

And these men have ignored you, the king.

They do not serve your gods, they do not worship the golden statue that you have set up.

Now, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego have been going against the cultural grain ever since they landed in Babylon.

As soon as they got to the palace, they said, Hey, you guys are gonna eat the king's diet.

The problem with that is the king's diet went against the Jewish dietary laws.

They would be disobeying God to obey the Babylonian king.

And so Daniel and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they opted out.

At risk to themselves, they said, We're gonna still follow God's way, and we'll measure this after a span of time and see how everyone's doing, and God bless them.

And at the end of the allotted time period, they were healthier than everyone else, they were wiser than everyone else, they saw things more clearly than everyone else, they went against the cultural grain, and things went well for them.

But now they refused to bow to the golden statue.

And while everything has gone their way by following God, all of a sudden following God is at risk of costing them their very lives.

And following Jesus can be like this.

Because following Jesus will cost you.

And it doesn't always cost you immediately.

Because a lot of the ways that our lives begin to function when we follow Jesus, they make our lives better and they make us better at life.

If you start loving your spouse the way that Jesus loves you, your life will get better, your house will be happier, there will be peace in your marriage, your kids will be more secure, your sex life will improve, you'll start dating again, you will love each other greater.

Things will go up and to the right by following that part of Jesus.

However, if you fully follow him, Jesus is a counter-cultural path.

And if you rub against the grain of culture for long enough, eventually it will cost you something.

And that is the moment that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are at.

They are at a crossroads, and when it's gonna cost them their life, will they continue standing up for Jesus or will they bow down?

They had made up their minds.

They were already on a path of following Jesus, they weren't changing.

And so they had a lot of people jealous.

They had a lot of haters.

And it's not comfortable having haters.

But let me suggest something to you that I've suggested before.

If you have haters in your life, because you are doing the right things and God is bringing success to your life, that is more of an indication of your upward mobility than it is an indication of their perspective.

Haters don't always signal that things aren't going well in your life.

A lot of times it means you're doing exactly what you should be doing, and people who would rather complain and sit on the sidelines are kind of in their feelings about it.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego have some haters, not because they're doing the wrong thing, because they're doing the exact right thing.

They go to the king, they blow it up, and the king is not happy.

In verse 14, Nebuchadnezzar asks them, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true?

Is it true that you don't serve my gods?

Is it true that you don't worship the golden statue that I have set up?

A key indicator that you are going against the grain of culture in a way that is getting ready to cost you is when you begin hearing the question, is it true?

Is it true you're not going out with us anymore?

Is it true you're gonna be faithful only to your spouse and to your spouse only?

Is it true you're not getting high with us anymore?

Is it true you're done gossiping?

Is it true?

Is it true every Sunday you're going to Sunday service?

Is it true you're giving part of your money?

Don't you know it's almost recession?

You're giving money to the church.

Is it true?

Are you really actually living it out?

And here's what no one expects, because we live in a culture that is a Christian culture where everyone sits in the pews, everyone meets together, everyone sings the songs, and then they don't do anything about it.

And so when you begin lovingly holding your ground, standing your ground, holding your boundaries, when you begin actually applying the truths of God into your life, you're going to hear, is it true?

Is it true is an indication that God is breaking through, that he is getting ready to demonstrate to the circle that is around you, to your family, to your friends, to your coworkers, to the people that you hang out with, to your friend group, God is getting ready to show that he's actually making a real difference in your life.

Is it true?

You see, we have a culture in the church of Christian accommodation.

Now, at most churches, you don't have to worry about this, because at most churches, they are standing in the parking lot, and the moment you drive in, they're gonna let you know that if you don't look the right way and sound the right way and talk the right way and dress the right way and know all the verses and sing all the songs, then you're not welcome anyway.

But here, we can be in danger of going to the other extreme and think that acceptance is the same as affirmation.

Christian accommodation doesn't.

Know how to set boundaries and still love people at the same time.

And our call to follow Jesus is a call to love, to love radically, to love unapologetically, to love actually with no strings attached.

That's what Jesus did.

He hung on a cross knowing that billions of people would not care and would reject his offer.

We love with no strings attached, but it is not loving to let down our boundaries, to bow to the things of this world, and to not actually allow the people around us who are looking for hope, and if they know you're connected to Jesus, they might just be looking for that hope in your life.

What difference does it make?

Is it actually true?

And our call is a call to application.

And believe me, you cannot have proper application if your primary goal is accommodation.

We must be different if our movement is going to make a difference.

And the king can't even understand it.

Is it true?

Is it true you're really gonna follow this Jesus guy?

Is it true?

Things are really changing, huh?

Is it true?

And when you begin living an is it true kind of life, where you lovingly hold your ground, stand your ground, quit bowing to the things of this culture that you know God did not intend for you, that is when the power of God begins to come through your life and to the people around you who are looking for God, whether they know it or not.

In verse 15, the king says, Look, one more chance.

If you're ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, every kind of music, fall down and worship the statue I made.

But if you don't worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire.

And then he asks a question and who is the God who can rescue you from my power?

Now that is a rhetorical question.

He's asking that, assuming the answer is no God.

He's king of Babylon, he's king of the greatest empire, he's king Nebuchadnezzar.

Just look down the way, there's a 90-foot statue of this fool.

Who's gonna stand up to me?

You see, when people don't see evidence of the God in your life, they will assume that you're following the same God they are, which is themselves.

That was the first temptation.

If there is no God that you're orienting your life around, then you are God.

And let me tell you, you're an amazing person.

You have potential beyond what you could even believe.

For most of you in this room, I probably believe in your potential more than you even do right now, but even with all of that and the purpose and power of God inside of you, I'm going to tell you, you will make a terrible, terrible God.

You cannot hold the weight of your future, you cannot hold the weight of your hope, you cannot put your faith in yourself because yourself will let yourself down.

And so, King Nebuchadnezzar, he's bought the lie that all of us buy from time to time.

He's made himself his own God, and he doesn't think any God can stand in his way.

And when people begin asking these kind of questions, when you're living an is it true kind of life, people will say, Is your God good enough to this?

Can your God actually make a difference in your marriage?

Can your God actually improve your life?

Is your God actually gonna lift you out of this depression?

You've been in the same dead-end job forever.

Is your God actually gonna bring you joy?

And if you will stand your ground at the crossroads of is it true and continue to apply the truths of Jesus into your life, then they will get an answer to that question and it will be revealed in your life.

That is what it looks like when we don't just meet together, but we actually go out and we start moving together.

Medichurch, this is a place when God inspires you in your life and you start seeing something, you can do this magic thing right here.

You can say thank you, God.

You can do any of that stuff because if you're going to go the route the rest of the world is going, then what you're going to do is be swept along by the current of the culture around you.

You're gonna continue bowing your knees to the things in this world that do not care about you and have nothing for your future.

And God has given you another way.

And Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are about to show you in verse 16.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replying to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we don't need to give you an answer to this question.

If the God we serve exists, then he can rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he can rescue us from the power of even you, the king.

This is why we have to meet and move.

Because Sunday service is easy, especially in America.

This doesn't cost you anything.

It's easy.

You can come.

If you want a religious experience, you can check a box.

We've got a good band here.

This is easy.

You know what we do in our life teams is not maybe what you're used to in a typical church small group.

A typical church small group, they go and they have Sunday service 2.0.

And you just get more information.

And you can just feel good about yourself because you know some things.

God didn't call us to know some things, God called us to do some things, to shake some things up.

He didn't just call us to meet, he called us to move, and our meeting is only as good as the movement that it produces.

And this is getting ready to cost them something.

In fact, it's getting ready to potentially cost them their life.

And I want you to see something because if you want to know how to keep standing while the rest of the world is bowing, you need to know two things.

Number one, you need to know who our God is.

You need to see it and see his love for you and see his purpose that he's placed inside of you.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they had the same God, the same view of him, the same experience of him in their lives.

They had God and they had each other.

Let me summarize what they just said.

Look at it.

Nebuchadnezzar, we don't need to.

He can rescue us from the furnace, he can rescue us from the power.

We don't even know which one's speaking.

It could be Shadrach, it could, it could be Abednego, it doesn't tell us because it doesn't matter because they are in alliance.

They are on the same page, they have each other's back.

And if you really want your life to start making an impact, if you want to start seeing the power of God applied through your life, you need alliance.

You need people standing with you.

And this is true not just scripturally, this has been shown and affirmed scientifically, you will become the people you surround yourself with.

You will become the people you surround yourself with.

And if you think of the five dumbest things you've ever done in life, four of them were illegal, one of them was really dangerous.

If you think of the cows that you tipped, that's a Lampassis thing, right?

If you think of the bad decisions you made, the decisions that really cost you, you had some people around you who were moving in that same direction.

We normally don't do stupid alone.

You'll become the people you put around yourself.

And some of you, you may come every week, and I know I'm running out of time, but you come every week, and you're like, I feel it.

I want to do it, I want to be it, I want to live it, I want to experience my purpose, I wanna be on that significant path.

And you go back out into a community that you have curated around yourself that is leading you in the opposite direction.

And this isn't the church where we say, abandon all of your friends who don't hold to every precept that we hold to, but this is the place that says you need people around you that you are intentional about, who are coming together and seeking to apply the truths of God into their life.

And if you want to become more like Jesus, then you need an alliance of people around you who are willing to fight those fights with you, who are willing to go into battle with you, who are willing to give you loving organic accountability, who are willing to let you be your most vulnerable self, who are willing to let you come and say, I screwed up again, I got it wrong again, I got pissed off again, and they will say we love you and Jesus loves you, and tomorrow you're gonna be one step closer to who he is.

You need alliance around you to really live out the life that you've been called to live.

This is how this is how the movement moves.

And so the question is, what are you bowing to?

And you will stand together and you will bow together.

And whatever you're bowing to, the things that you're doing, that if Jesus were to come down and follow you around for a day, you'd be trying to distract him during that part of your day, during those thoughts that you have, during that habit that you're in, that thing you keep bowing to, there's others bowing with you, probably an entire culture.

And to stand, you need people standing beside you.

You need this kind of faith.

In verse 18, they said, But even if God does not rescue us, even if we perish in the fire, we want you as the king to know we will not serve your gods, we will not worship the golden statue that you have set up.

And the king is outraged.

And before he throws them in, he says, The furnace, make it seven times hotter.

The furnace got so wild that even the guards who walked them to the edge were devoured by the flames.

And some of you want to feel Jesus so bad.

You want that connection, and maybe you've known some Christians who it's like, man, it's like they really hear from God, and they're able to just stand strong in the face of adversity, and they have this connection.

Like, I've I've believed in Jesus, I've been through the waters, I've done the whole thing.

And perhaps, perhaps the experience of Jesus that you're looking for is on the other side of the fire.

Maybe it's on the other side of the application.

Maybe the truth is that it won't be found in the accommodation of cultures' ways, it will be found in the courage of standing strong with an alliance by your side.

They went into the fire, but something miraculous happened in verse 24.

The king jumped up in alarm and he said to his advisors, Didn't we throw three men bound in the fire?

Yes, of course, your majesty.

They replied to the clean to the king, and he exclaimed, Look, I see four men, not tied, walking around unharmed.

And the fourth looks like a son of the gods.

And they came out of the fire, and there was not a hair on their head singed, and their clothes were unharmed.

And remember what King Nebuchadnezzar asked: What kind of God can save you from the power of me, the king?

And by the end of the story, Nebuchadnezzar bowed his knees and gave his life to the king who can save.

We sing the song, there is another in the fire standing next to me.

There's another in the waters holding back the seas.

That's Jesus.

But there was more than just two in the fire.

There was another, another.

There was an alliance of people standing together with them.

Application happens in community, and true community requires alliance.

And so listen, if you have this, you have your people, and y'all are following God together imperfectly like we all do, but you are seeking after him and you are taking steps.

I'm not trying to pull you out of the community you already have to put you on a life team that we have assembled.

But I know many of us, we do not have that kind of community.

And we went so desperately to see Jesus work in our life.

And that could be one of the key missing pieces.

And so, in just a minute, we're gonna dismiss.

And right over here, we have life team leaders, they've been in training for the past couple months.

They have been praying and preparing for you to come check them out and get on their team.

They meet all throughout the city, different days of the week, different hours of the day.

We've got lots of options to choose from.

If you don't have that, you need that community, and all of us need application.

You may not know this, but we have a tool for everyone.

It's called the Wrap Sheet, and our life teams do the wrap sheet every week.

It stands for review, apply, and pray.

It's on our website.

Every week, if you go to metachurch.tv and you click on life teams, you can go to the wrap sheet.

You're gonna have a review of Sunday sermon, then you are gonna have some very digging in questions to help you apply this into your life.

What difference is this actually going to make?

And then there will be some prompts of how you can be praying throughout that week for God to give you the strength and courage and protection as you seek to live this out.

In life teams, we meet together and we do rap sheets three times a month.

On the other time, we go out and we actually serve our city.

And there are hundreds of people from Metachurch serving our city.

We don't get any credit for it because we don't want any credit for it, because people will experience Jesus through us, not through an idea of this thing we call metachurch.

You are the church.

It is time to not just meet together, it's time to move together.

And part of how you move is being in community.

We'll hold your kids for a while so that you can go check it out, but I want to encourage you, do battle with the excuses, go over to the tables, and if there's something that matches your time, your schedule, your needs, we have everything from a college group to empty nesters and everything in between.

If there's somewhere you fit in, sign up, show up, and get in an alliance, a community that will help you live out what God has placed inside you.

Let me pray for you and you'll be dismissed.

Father, we love you.

I pray now that people will go, they will investigate, that you will show them exactly where they should be and how they should sign up.

And God, we give you credit and glory for everything you will do through this.

In the powerful name of Jesus.

Amen.

Thanks so much for listening to the message today.

If this was helpful to you and you want to help us get the word out, you can subscribe to this podcast.

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If you want to get connected further with what MetaCurch is doing, you can go online to metachurch.tv.

There you can learn how to take next steps.

You can learn where our different venues are at if you ever wanted to visit, and you can also give financially to help push this movement forward.

Man, I love you guys, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.