Whatever It Takes: Partisan Piety with Pastor Clayton Tyner

Welcome to the Medichurch Podcast.

My name's Clayton.

I'm the pastor here at Medichurch.

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

I hope that you enjoy today's message.

Ma'am, we also just want to say thank you to everyone who is attending at our Holotus venue.

We have two venues, but one vision.

It's the same mission, it's the same message, and it's all a part of the same movement.

Now we are nearing the end of a series that we've been in for several weeks now called Whatever It Takes.

And in this series, we're really doing two different things.

Number one, we have been drilling down into our mission statement here at Medichurch, which simply says we will do whatever it takes to get people to Jesus.

All of the decisions that we make, the programs we put on, the elements in our services, the sermons that we preach, the outreach that we do, all of it is to get people who are living without the hope of Jesus an opportunity to meet Him and experience the life that they were created to live.

The second thing we've been doing in this series is we've been looking at our path forward in the future that God has for us.

And what we see as a part of doing whatever it takes is this opportunity for a new weapon in our fight for the lives and souls of people in our city and beyond.

This weapon looks like a new permanent space.

It'll be a home base of operation for this movement.

It will be an auditorium that we've created as like a digital hub so we can reach more and more people online and open new venues wherever God opens that door.

It looks like classroom space that is more than adequate and abundant for our Metakids program on Sundays, as well as for spiritual formation classes throughout the week to help all of us get and stay emotionally, financially, relationally, and spiritually healthy.

It's a place for people to connect and come into intentional community where we're not just meeting together, but we're out moving together.

It is also a home base for our social action and going out partnering with other nonprofits and other people who are doing incredible work here in our city.

Not only that, but Little Dove Learning Center will have daycare and after-school care Monday through Friday.

This building offers us the opportunity to have a thriving youth program and a zip code where 28% of students never graduate high school.

This is an opportunity for the movement to move.

What we've done is pretty simple.

We've asked everyone who's a part of Meta to make a three-year pledge, a three-year financial commitment to come alongside us, above and beyond your normal offering, to help us do whatever it takes to continue meeting together and moving together in as impactful a way as possible.

But today, we are walking in very uncertain times.

And I've been praying for a while about how exactly to address the political climate that we're living in.

It's certainly a tricky topic.

And I think that God put a passage in my way that can be incredibly useful to help us understand how we continue to move in such divided times.

My message today is called partisan piety.

Would you pray with me?

Father, admittedly, we're going to walk into grounds today that could get uncomfortable, that I normally don't address, but I feel it is so, so important that when we say we do whatever it takes to get people to the hope that's in your son Jesus, that we mean it.

We mean it regardless of the differences in opinion or worldview or politics, and that's a very hard thing.

And so I ask that you give us perspective.

God, that we do not tune out, but instead that we are receptive, we have receptive minds and hearts for you to challenge us today.

We love you.

And we pray these things in Jesus' name.

Amen.

I don't know if you're aware, um, a lot of people aren't really talking about it.

I can't really find it on the news, but there was uh an election this week, and uh it seems like it's been a pretty big deal.

And we already had this giant lead up where it felt like every day we got closer, the country, the culture felt more and more volatile.

And America is almost living under like Ricky Bobby syndrome, you know?

It's like if you're not first, you're last.

It's just a win-lose situation, and the winners win and the losers lose, and here's what politics has become in a very, very real sense.

Politics is America's new religion.

If you keep track of the polls, and when you ask across the country what people's spiritual affiliation is, starting in the last 10 or 20 years and increasing every year, more and more Americans say that they simply have no spiritual affiliation.

What's called new atheism, it's not actually new, it's just being pushed forward by new people, is dramatically on the rise.

People are walking away from God, they're walking away from truth.

And in the absence of a God to hold the weight of our hope, we have to find something.

And that something seems to be politics.

We put our hope and our futures in the hands of our politicians.

Our own emotional stability goes up and down like the tide based on every move, every decision, every bill that's passed, every race.

We flood ourselves with information.

I mean, if there was like a percentage of a percentage of Americans who studied scripture like they study the news cycle, how different of a world would we be living in right now?

We bow at the altar of our politicians.

And it wasn't that many generations ago, it wasn't that way.

Your God was your God, and your politician was your politician.

And we could lose a race without losing our minds because there was something bigger than politics.

Today it feels as we put more and more of our hope, more and more of our mental, emotional, and relational equity in the hands of political actors, the more and more divided we've become, and the greater we've become entrenched in our views.

And this stuff is a little bit uncomfortable for me to talk about because I have my opinions and I try to stay somewhat educated on politics and what's going on.

Um, but this is not a political platform, this is a spiritual movement.

And I'll be the first to admit that many pastors have traded the integrity of their churches for political purposes.

And I'm sorry.

I am sorry.

I'm sorry for a world outside of Christ who now sees even more reason to never consider him as their savior.

I feel sorry for the people who are sitting in the seats of churches who are now just working for a political machine.

I feel sorry for the mar that it brings to the bride of Christ that we call the church.

And so I want to make it very clear that we're gonna have somewhat of a political discussion today, but we're only going to have it because of a very real fear that if we allow politics to hold the weight of our hope, that we could sabotage the significance of our mission to do whatever it takes.

Man, every week when I get up and I say, we do whatever it takes to get people to Jesus, and you know that we mean that because you are one of those people.

I know that I mean that because I am one of those people who is far from God and living without hope, and Jesus was there the whole time, and you love it.

And we say, we'll do whatever it takes to get people to Jesus, and you are the first one to go, amen.

We do whatever it takes to get people to Jesus louder for the people in the back.

And I wonder, I wonder if we changed it slightly.

If I would still get everyone's amen.

And I wonder if it said, we do whatever it takes to get far right conservatives to Jesus.

We do whatever it takes to get far left liberals to Jesus, we do whatever it takes to get hardcore free market capitalists to Jesus.

We do whatever it takes to get democratic socialists to Jesus, we do whatever it takes.

What if all of a sudden, instead of being a broad general people, we got specific, and it was specifically about the people who are on the opposite side of the issues that your hope is in.

Now, of course, we would never do that.

That would be ridiculous.

We would be throwing ourselves into the problem which is making church political instead of the solution, which is making sure that our politics are subservient to the mission of Christ.

But it matters.

Because we can say whatever it takes to get people, and in our mind we can make it the people that we identify with.

And we can say I'm all in on the mission because people is very general.

And while we would never put these categories of people into our mission statement, they are a part of our mission statement because when we say we do whatever it takes to get people to Jesus, we mean all people.

And it's very hard because most of us probably don't think of ourselves as very hateful.

We don't think of ourselves as sources of divisiveness, and maybe that was true for the majority of society once upon a time, but unfortunately, I've been on Facebook recently, and I have seen good, moral Christians who love God and love their families and work hard and sing the loudest in the seats, tearing people to shreds over the difference in political opinions.

And the church has survived it all.

Two thousand years of persecution and plagues, being separated from families, fed to the lions and Roman Colosseums.

Even when the church started, Rome was persecuting it, and it only grew stronger to the point where the Roman Empire claimed Christianity.

The Jewish religion was persecuting it, and it spread across the world.

Even today, as China tries to outlaw Christianity, the church grows in a more rapid pace in China than any other place on earth.

Nothing has been able to stop the movement of Jesus.

And these are very real moments of persecution.

And yet the Western Church, the American church, is under threat of being divided by our politics.

And I just thank God, let it not be so.

It's a very real question.

What do we do, and how do we move with people who we so seriously disagree with?

We're gonna be in the Christian scriptures.

This is a letter that the Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans, and we were in Romans back in our Love is Blind series.

We looked at Romans chapter 9 and we learned a little bit about this letter that Paul wrote.

Romans 9 · chapter mention

And really the core of the book is this tension between Jews and Gentiles, which just means non-Jews, who are now coexisting among each other as a part of the movement of Jesus.

And in this attempt to go into all the world and preach the gospel, in this attempt to reconcile people from all different walks of life, now there is this incredibly diverse and at times divided church.

Paul is writing to try to give some form of clarity to how this actually works.

Not in theory, not theoretically, we have differences of opinion, but we're here right now.

We disagree in major ways.

Here's the problem is that these disagreements are not just mental, they're emotional.

You can see it, you can see the heartbreak and the anger and the confusion all across our culture.

And this is why I think Romans 14 is so valuable to us in this exact moment.

Because what Paul is going to talk about is these very serious disputes.

And by the end of the passage, you're gonna see that not only are they judging each other off of what they think is right, but they despise each other over it.

Despise each other, hate each other, and there's so much hatred right now.

And the points of contention between these groups are gonna seem very small to us, but it's because we're not in their context.

The church in Rome is right at the beginning of this Jesus movement, and there's all these different groups coming together.

There's the Gentiles who are non-Jews, and it's not like they're just one group that all thinks the same and acts the same and votes the same, and they're different.

And then within the Jewish people, there's differences because some of the Jews believed in Jesus.

And they left behind all of the Jewish law.

They saw it as something brand new.

And for some Jewish believers, it took them some time to step fully into the freedom that they had found in Christ.

For some of them, they let go of some of the law, but they held on to some.

They held on to things like their diet.

The Jewish law, the Torah, has 613 rules and regulations for every single aspect of your life.

And a huge part of it is the dietary restrictions.

You have to understand, growing up in a Jewish home, it wasn't that we just don't eat this because this is part of the law.

We know we just don't eat this because that's kind of what we have to do.

Man, I would love to throw some shrimp on the grill, but you know what Moses said, we just can't get away with it.

That wasn't the law.

For them, it was the core of their identity.

It was polluting and defiling themselves to eat outside of the Jewish dietary restrictions.

Another thing that they were fighting over were the Jewish festivals and the sacred days, and whether or not you have to fully keep the Sabbath and have a full day where you rest from any and all activity.

And there were some of the believers who said, Man, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom, and every day is the same as the next.

And there were some who were coming in and were holding on.

See, it wasn't just that they liked the celebrations, liked getting dressed up and going out.

It wasn't just a communal aspect for them, it was identity.

It was securing their seat in the culture.

It was influence, it was power, it was deep.

What I'm saying is, these differences we're gonna read are not just mental, they're deeply, deeply emotional.

And Paul says in Romans 14:1, accept anyone who is weak in faith.

Romans 14:1

We do whatever it takes to get all people.

He says, accept anyone.

And this word accept is loaded.

It's not like just be okay.

Like I can be in the same room, I'm just not going to talk to them.

Like I will be near you, but I will not interact with you.

Accept is actually a word picture of opening the door to your home to someone.

This acceptance is relationship, it's love, it's intimate friendships, real relationship, except anyone who is weak in faith.

But do not argue about disputed matters.

And really, we could just close it up and go home.

Just in verse one, we have the answer.

Accept those who you are diametrically opposed to, accept those on the other side of the political, sociological, worldview, and ideological aisle from you.

Accept them, and not like I accept that you believe that, and you can stay over there and be an idiot, and I'll stay over here and be right.

Be in relationship with them, meet together with them, and move together with them and do not argue.

These very real, very emotional areas of dispute, do not argue.

God's been so good to MetaCurch and He's grown this movement, your movement.

Pre-pandemic, we had over 1200 in attendance.

We were able to reach a lot of new people when we started streaming during quarantine.

Can you imagine?

In our city, if over a thousand people took this advice, James, the half-brother of Jesus, said this in the Christian scriptures.

He said, be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

And all we're doing is arguing.

That's all we're doing.

It's constant.

We're arguing in person, but even more, we're arguing where our social lives are actually happening, which is on social media.

It is constant, it is unrelenting, it is vicious, it is divisive.

Arguing and arguing and arguing, and every argument, no matter how small, is creating another fracture and another fracture and another fracture.

And the danger is that someday those with differences of opinion will be so divided that they can no longer coexist and come together even for the most important mission on earth to do whatever it takes.

The Old Testament book of Proverbs, a wisdom book, says that where there is an abundance of talking, sin is found.

This is the theme of the rest of the verses we'll read together.

Accept anyone who is weak in faith, but do not argue about disputed matters.

Now, what does it mean to be weak in the faith?

In verse 2, it says one person believes that he may eat anything, while one who is weak eats only vegetables.

I had no idea that studying this test, I was gonna uh studying this passage, I was gonna find my new favorite scripture.

The one who is weak eats only vegetables.

I've been trying to tell my wife for for decades now that vegetables are not good for you.

I was in my mid-20s before I ate for real, probably my very first vegetable.

Does candy corn count?

Because I eat lots of candy corn.

Besides that, I was out.

Meat and potatoes, and the meat came from Taco Bell, and it was delicious.

And there's no vegetables at Taco Bell, which is why I love it.

And this is where we have to be a little bit careful because it says the one who is weak eats only vegetables.

I've already planned out my tattoo for that scripture, right?

The one who is what he's saying is not that vegetarians are weak or that those who eat healthy are weak.

He's contrasting dietary laws.

He's talking about being strong in faith, in other words, mature in your faith, and being weak or developing in your faith.

Probably half of our country's medical problems could actually be solved if we would eat a few more vegetables.

It's a good thing, unless you make it a God thing.

And the problem with the Old Testament law and the problem with religious expectations to eat in a certain way is that you're trying to earn your righteousness through your works.

When what Paul knows is that all of our best works are as filth before God.

Our only hope is not in eating a certain way or living a certain way, thinking a certain way, or voting a certain way.

Our only hope is to realize that we have no hope and to put our faith in the one who came and perfectly lived out all of the law's expectations.

Your only hope is to put your faith in Jesus.

This is why it is a weaker faith to follow all of the dietary restrictions, because while these people have believed in Jesus, they are still pinning some of their hope on their works.

And isn't it interesting that if we look at modern religion and kind of how we actually Practice it, that it is normally the church environments where they have pulled out of the Old Testament law all these different rules and expectations that are looked at as really spiritually strong and superior environments.

And when you find movements that are relying solely on Christ and Christ alone, removing any religious or traditional barriers to people meeting Jesus, they're often seen as shallow or weak.

But that is the opposite of what Paul says.

He defines spiritual strength as those who understand that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom that Christ came and completed that law so that we no longer had to put our hope in our actions.

We put our hope in Christ alone.

In verse 3, Paul says, one who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not judge one who does, because God has accepted him.

And maybe at this point, as we're talking through our fractured society that we're living in right now, with very different viewpoints and very divided politics, you're thinking, okay, I get it, but I'm right.

And maybe you are.

Maybe your viewpoint is objectively right.

You notice what Paul just did is in verse one and two, he said there is a right answer.

There are those who are weak in the faith and those who are strong.

There are those who are still developing the freedom to trust only in Christ, and there are those who are fully living in their mature freedom.

He's not saying both options are equally correct, but he does say that both of them are equally accepted by God.

And it comes down to the very baseline fact that God does not accept us because of who we are or what we've done.

He accepts us because of who Christ is and what Jesus has done for us.

In verse 4, he nails it down.

He says, Who are you to judge another's household servant?

Before his own Lord he stands or falls, and he will stand because the Lord is able to make him stand.

And Paul is writing this to the Romans.

And around this time, about 50% of the Roman population was in what's called bond service.

This is when you would become a servant of a household in order to have food and clothing and protection.

So it's very common.

It normally wasn't forever, it was for a season until you earned enough to get your freedom back.

50%.

That means most houses you walked into would have a bond servant working around the house.

And Paul's saying, just think about it.

You wouldn't dare walk into somebody else's house and start telling their servant how to do their job.

Bro, you've got the pillows all wrong.

The pillows are all wrong.

You gotta put the littles in the back.

Dude, you can't trifold the towels.

It's twofold.

You put them up.

Look at this grass.

This grass is too short, bro.

You can't cut Bermuda this short.

You're gonna kill it.

The owner of the house is gonna be like, yo, this is my guy.

You can't tell him what to do.

And Paul says, the Lord of the house, the owner of the house, will put the servant into service how he sees fit.

And then he says, the Lord.

You see, what happens is some of us remove the bondage and chains of sin and we replace it with the chains of religion, the chains of politics.

And what scripture says is that we bind ourselves to Christ and Christ alone.

That means the person you're judging, the person you're in dispute with, the person on the other side of the issue.

They're not yours to instruct, they belong to the Lord.

Verse 5 changes gears to a different kind of dispute, but one that is no less emotional.

He says, one person judges one day to be more important than another, and someone else judges every day to be the same.

Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

What are we not saying?

We're not saying don't have your convictions, don't do your work, your research, don't have your political, societal, worldview, opinions.

Be convinced, do the work, think through it.

God has given you a mind and a will that is free, and he has placed you on this earth to take in all of the facts and to start with scripture as your lens.

But let each be convinced.

In verse 6, whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord.

Whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God.

And whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat it, and he gives thanks to God.

For none of us lives for himself, and no one dies for himself.

If we live, we live for the Lord.

And if we die, we die for the Lord.

Therefore, this is a conclusive statement.

Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, whether we eat or whether we do not, whether we observe every single minute Jewish holiday, or whether we treat every day like it is the next, whether we're Republican or Democrat, whatever we think, however we vote, wherever we're at in life, we belong to the Lord.

Verse 9, Christ died and returned to life for this, that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

Where does Paul start?

Paul starts with acceptance, true acceptance, relational acceptance, where we can live with and love and lead beside people who are diametrically opposed to us in almost every way.

Very real, emotion-laden disputes.

We can accept and we can set aside our differences.

Instead of going around and around and around and around, arguing the same points of contention, instead, we can look to something greater than ourself.

How do we do it though?

How do we do it right now?

How do we do it in the climate we're living in right now?

Paul knows that within ourselves and in our own strength, it is probably impossible.

What we need is to remember our heavenly father.

Just a few weeks ago, uh, my oldest Lane turned 16.

And he's such a unique guy.

And uh I love talking to him.

We were talking uh just a few weeks back, before he was getting ready to turn 16, about all the new responsibility that he'd have, and honestly, the freedom that he would have to have his driver's license and be able to go places, and of course, that gives you more freedom in the realm of you know dating and coming into these relationships.

And you know, when I look back on Lane's life, he's really taken his time.

It's not that he hasn't had some crushes, he just hasn't let any of them ruin his entire existence.

And I wish that I could have been that way as a kid, but I would fall and I'd fall fast.

And in third grade, I thought I was truly in love.

And again in fifth grade and again in seventh grade and over and over it went, and inevitably when it would not work out, it was like, how can I go on living?

It's emotional, very emotional.

And maybe you can remember your first real crush.

Maybe you can remember that sense of hope, but also the gnawing sense of despair that maybe they didn't quite like you back.

Maybe you can remember the emotion of the confusion of not really knowing how to move forward and trying to work up the courage and the sense of real relief when you found a friend who you could talk to about it, and you weren't quite brave enough to talk to your crush, but man, you had a confidant and you can talk, and maybe you experienced the very deep emotion of betrayal as that guy went and went behind your back.

They snitched, they were supposed to be your homeboy, but they told her that you liked her, and your whole world fell apart.

And maybe you can remember the joy of them crushing on you back, or maybe the hopelessness of them not feeling the same way.

Deep, real emotions.

And of course, we look back and it's like ridiculous.

We're not gonna find our wife in fourth grade.

You're 10, but the emotions are very real, and you get a little bit older and the emotions remain, and you're a ninth, tenth grader, and it's like the only thing that's gonna possibly matter is making that team and starting on varsity and getting where you need to go.

The emotions are still there.

The emotions are still real, the emotions are still heavy.

Now, in tenth grade, you look back and laugh at fourth grade because you have a broader perspective now.

You know that that was nonsense, but the emotions were real.

And you get into college and you fall in love.

Real love.

And you're old enough now that you start making real plans of what the rest of your life is gonna look like with this person.

And some of you have been through that very moment where you find out that they haven't been faithful, or maybe you've been through that very moment where they just simply move on, where it just doesn't work out, and the despair and the heartache and the anger and the regrets.

And in college, you would look back in tenth grade and go, gosh, I was I was never gonna be a professional athlete.

You know, that that really didn't matter, but the emotions along the way have remained the same.

It's only your perspective that has grown.

And emotions are a difficult thing to overcome.

You actually feel them, they can be debilitating, they can make it feel like there's no way that you can possibly move forward in life.

And many in our country right now, and many in this movement right now may be feeling those very same emotions over the state of politics in our country.

And what's beautiful is when we're in fourth grade and when we're in ninth grade, and hopefully, even as we move into college, we have our parents.

And what a good parent does is when their fourth grader is heartbroken and devastated and doesn't know how life will ever move on, and when our ninth grader is heartbroken and angry and confused and bitter and doesn't know how they're ever gonna make it another day, and when our college student has life life has just fallen apart and all the dreams of the future are dashed, and they don't know how they're gonna go on, a good parent puts their arm around them, and they acknowledge that life is so hard, and that emotions are so heavy.

We connect, we let them know we've experienced some of those same feelings, we've been through some of the same pains, but a good parent does something else.

They also make it their job to not allow that present pain to sabotage their child's future significance.

And in this moment where our world is hurting so much, you're you're an adult now.

Your perspective has broadened, but your emotions are the same.

And what we need is a heavenly father to show us that there is more to life than this moment.

In verse 10, Paul says, But you, why do you judge your brother or sister?

Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister?

And this is the bottom line, for we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

In verse 12, so then each of us will give an account of himself.

I've got great news for you.

Someday when you stand before Christ and give an account for the life that you live, you will not have to give an account for your political opponents.

You will not have to give an account for those that you see as your enemy, you will not have to give an account for the politicians who you so strongly disagree with.

You will give an account for yourself.

And what the church needs so desperately right now is a vastly, vastly broader perspective.

A church who is threatening to throw away eternal significance because of present pain.

A world that has put so much of their hope in this world that we have forgotten we're actually living for the next.

And one day when we stand before Christ, I promise you will not get rewarded for winning a single Facebook argument, you will not get rewarded for your voting track record, you will not get rewarded for being right.

You will be judged on how you took who you are and what you have and used it to do whatever it takes to get all people to Jesus.

In 1776, America declared its independence from the country that founded America.

It was almost like a divorce of countries, something that seemed like we would never stand together again.

But in the 40s, a power emerged on the world stage that, if not unchecked, would threaten to destroy life as we knew it.

And all of a sudden, two countries with such troublesome past were able to stand together because there was a mission that was bigger than them both.

The church is the mission of Jesus for the redemption of the whole world.

There is nothing bigger, there is no grander story that you can tell with your life, there is nothing more significant that you can live for, there is nothing that eclipses all that the world has to offer, like the movement of Jesus, and if we throw it away for our politics, we are fools.

For a lot of us, where we need to start is asking the question of where our hope is.

Where your hope is will become the filter for how you see this world and move in it.

And if your hope is in your politics, please hear me.

Then you will do whatever it takes to get people to your vote.

And it's such a shallow purpose for a life created by God to live as a part of God's story.

In verse 13, it says, Therefore, let us no longer judge one another.

Instead, decide never, never, not sometimes, not during election year, never to put a stumbling block or a pitfall in the way of your brother or your sister.

Accept anyone who is weak and do not argue about disputed matters.

Romans 14, 1 would change our church and it would change our world.

We're in the middle of a campaign to get a new home base of operations that is significantly bigger than any of our current venues, that will allow us to reach more people in those seats, but more than that, we'll be a digital hub getting this message out to the world.

God has been faithful, and as He expands this movement, the diversity of thought and opinion and worldview and ideology will expand as well.

We will find ourselves as a part of a movement with people that we have very real, very deep, very emotional differences with.

And our success will largely be predicated on whether we're going to live for today or whether we are going to live for the day that we stand before our Maker.

Don't let politics get in the way of doing whatever it takes to reach people.

Would you pray with me?

Father, we love you, and we thank you that you are a good father.

You see that we're hurting.

You see your children placing our hope on politicians.

And every four years coming to a point where half of the country is happy and half of them are irreparably defeated.

And it must break your heart to know that there is something so much infinitely, eternally greater.

That you, God, can actually hold the weight of our hope where nothing that happens in this world can shake us.

I pray that we would be informed, that we would vote our conscience, that we could have civil conversations about why we think our particular policy or politician is correct.

But God, the moment that it gets in the way of your mission and your message, I pray we would step out of the way.

God, that we would be a movement who, when we say we do whatever it takes to get people to Jesus, that we mean it in every sense of every word.

We love you.

And we pray all of these things in Jesus' name.

Amen.

I mentioned it at the top of the message, and uh, if you've been in this series, you know.

We are looking to expand.

And we do think it matters that a place like MetaCurch, a place that prioritizes Jesus over everything, exists and continues to grow.

I'd love for you to go to our MetaCurch YouTube page and get caught up on this series.

You can learn all about what it means to make a pledge and join us for three years to help us fund this building.

You can go to metachurch.tv slash whatever it takes, learn all about that.

You can even see there how easy it is to actually set up your pledge and join us in this investment in reaching more lives.

For those of you who are a part of MetaCurch, of course, we need you to continue funding this movement, to give your normal offering to the operation of a really, really healthy group of people moving forward with financial health.

And so you can give easily at metachurch.tv or the metachurch app.

You guys, these are perilous times, and it is important that you are filling yourself with positive, encouraging content.

So make sure that you're following us on social media, on Facebook, and on Instagram.

As always, man, invest in what we're doing here.

Invite people to come and join you.

We love you, and we ask that you continue to be the movement.

Thanks so much for listening to the message today.

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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.