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Why Don’t We Tell People About This? | Pastor Kris Segrest | The Reason You’re Not Inviting People to Church (opens the original)
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What if the most powerful thing we could do for someone we love is simply extend an invitation? In this message, we dive into the Parable of the Great Banquet from Luke 14, where Jesus uses the image of a lavish dinner party to reveal something stunning about the heart of God and our role in His story. The celebration has already been prepared. Everything needed for a relationship with God has been accomplished, and there is a seat at the table waiting. Yet the parable confronts us with an uncom
Crowd to Connection to Community to Communitas | Pastor Kris Segrest | Is Attending Church Enough? (opens the original)
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What truly keeps us rooted in our faith community? The answer might be simpler and more profound than we expect: relationships. Drawing from the powerful account in Mark chapter 2, where four determined friends tear through a roof to lower their paralyzed companion to Jesus, we are invited to examine where we stand in our own relational depth. The story presents us with four distinct levels of connection: the crowd, the connected, the community, and something even deeper called communitas. Most
Why Jesus Wants You To Join A Local Church (opens the original)
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What does it truly mean to be part of a church? Not just attending, not just watching online, but genuinely belonging to a community on mission together? This message cuts straight to the heart of that question by drawing a striking contrast between cohabitation and covenant. Just as a relationship of convenience looks similar to a marriage from the outside but lacks the depth of commitment, many of us have been treating the church the same way, showing up when it suits us, drifting when life ge
The Five Movements of Surrender (opens the original)
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What does it look like to truly bow before God, not just in posture but in the full surrender of our lives? This gathering takes us deep into Ephesians 3:14-21, where Paul writes from a Roman prison, shackled and uncertain of his future, yet his heart is entirely fixed on interceding for the people he loves. The passage becomes a living template for us, moving through distinct postures of prayer: kneeling in remembrance of what God has already done, opening ourselves to the explosive, dynamite-l
Faith in Motion (opens the original)
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Speaker: Sam Draper Series: Origin Stories What does it look like to stand at the edge of everything God has promised, knowing the only thing between you and it is a river you have to actually enter? In Joshua 1 and 3, we find the people of God at exactly that moment, and the lesson they faced is one we still face today. God had already made the promise. The land was already theirs. But the water was not going to part until their feet touched it. This is the difference between admiring faith and
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