When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.

The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.

Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location.

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

Instead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we plan, we organize, and we create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God.

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.