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World Changers | 1 Timothy 4:12 · Saint City Chapel

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That man can see. Yeah, that was that was great.
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I want to introduce myself a little bit before I introduce
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the network. I have a picture, I think of my
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family that we're going to show you here real quick.
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Can you see that? Because I can't see if you can
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see it. Where would I have to look to
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see what you see? So I would have to come around
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here and look at that. Aren't they awesome?
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Yes, I do have a son-in-law who's Nephilim a very large guy.
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But the favorite picture that we have of my family taking this
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summer is this picture. These are my grandkids and they
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are in birth order. Can you tell the oldest child of
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my son-in-law who is and, and I point him out because he
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actually planted the 39th church in our network.
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And the reason that we even started a network is because my
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daughter, believe it or not, got a scholarship to play basketball
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for the University of Iowa. And playing basketball, the
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University of Iowa. We went there and we saw that
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there wasn't a church at a Big 10 school that loved college
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students. And so we started salt company
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in 1987. And then we started a church
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that loved college students in 1994.
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But we thought people were doing that everywhere.
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But when my daughter got a scholarship to play University
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of Iowa, we realized there wasn't a church that loved
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college students, and we started a salt company there.
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And so God prospered and blessed that church.
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Ended up falling in love with one of the men's players who now
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has planted our 39th church. Just so you know, Saint City
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Chapel is the 34th church in our network.
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And we now have 4040 churches in the network.
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And we have plans for 12 more and 25 and 26, and then also
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have planters preparing for 28 and 29.
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And the goal is that we would have a church and all the major
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university centers in North America, 400 of them in total.
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And the reason we go to the majors first is because once we
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get the majors, we can do the minors.
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Guys. When we started Salt Company, we
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never thought there'd be two. When we started Salt Company, we
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were just a small Christian ministry on the campus of Iowa
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State University, about 50 college students.
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And now every single week in the 40 salt companies, there's
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17,000 students who attend Salt Company weekly.
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And in our 40 churches, over 35,000 people that come every
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week. God is doing something
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extraordinary This year alone or last year, and now it's 2026, we
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saw 2856 people follow Christ in believers baptism.
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The vast majority of them are college students.
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It is crazy to see what God is doing.
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So this morning we want to talk about this a little bit.
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When you come here on the weekends, most of the time
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Bran's just going to open the Word of God and teach you the
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Scripture. And so if I don't root something
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in the Word of God, I would be a charlatan, right?
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And so the verse for today is first Timothy chapter 4, verse
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12. And it says this, Don't let
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anyone look down on you because you're young.
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Only in every way set an example of their believers in speech and
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conduct and love and faith and purity.
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And I've decided to entitle this message World changers.
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But I've never walked into any of our facilities and saw that
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on the wall. Did you read that?
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It says what begins here changes the world.
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That's a false statement of any junior high I've been a part of.
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But when you plant a church in the junior high, maybe that
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fits. Could you dream with me just a
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little bit about what God might do in this place?
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Could you dream with me just a little bit about a generation
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who emerges that literally changes the world, not with
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money or politics or power, but with prayer and faith and
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courage and the gospel of Jesus Christ?
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Could you imagine with me for a little bit that God would begin
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a movement at this giant university and the other
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universities that are connected to this valley that would
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literally transform and change the world?
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Do you know, it's an undeniable fact that you can observe in all
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of history that I think that you can predict into the future that
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God has a pattern. God uses young people who are
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bold in faith and godly in living and willing to step out
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into whatever sphere he calls them to, to literally change the
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world. If you're young this morning, I
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want to let you know that most people in my generation look at
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your generation and says you guys are in need of drastic
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change. Here's what God would say to you
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this morning. No, you're world changers.
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You see the way God works if you read your Bible.
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Have you ever read about this man Joseph, who at 17 was sold
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into slavery, rejected by his own family, but had such a heart
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for God that he literally became a world changer, second command
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in all of Egypt, saving all of the people of God?
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Have you read about Samuel, who is a young boy who had a priest
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who led him, who raised terrible sons, but even as a child God
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began to speak to him and he said, yes, Lord, your servant is
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listening. And Samuel has a child, became a
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world changer and a king anointer.
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What about David, the youngest of eight brothers whose dad
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didn't even see enough worth in him to have him presented to the
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prophet to be anointed? And yet God said David the
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weakest of all. He is my man who became a world
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changer. What about Josiah?
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He became the king at 8. Who would ever do that?
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But at 16, he began to read the word of God, and it so changed
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his life that he shared it with all of the people and he became
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a world changer. What about Daniel and he's three
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friends. Have you read this story?
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Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who were brutally emasculated in
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order to serve in the King's court.
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And yet their faith in God, in spite of their circumstances,
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enabled them to win two Pagan kings, to not be eaten by lions,
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and to survive the furnace, the fiery furnace.
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They were world changers. What about Jeremiah, a great
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prophet of God at 17 who felt the call of God in his life and
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he began to prophecy in a dark time and became a world changer?
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What about Ruth the Moabites? Who is untimely born and in her
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20s was widowed and yet she was committed to her mother-in-law
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and to the people of God and became one who is now mentioned
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in the lineage of our Savior Jesus Christ.
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What about Esther, a young teenage beauty queen who risked
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her life to save the people of God And guys, maybe the most
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prominent of all the teenagers that God used, Mary, a poor
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virgin girl who would become the vessel of the king of the
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universe. So when you do something this
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morning, if you're 16 to 25, that's random, but would you
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stand up 16 to 25? Yeah.
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Say, say Chapel. Look at your church.
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I want to read this verse over you.
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Don't let anyone despise you because you're young, but set an
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example for the believers in speech and conduct, in love and
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faith and impurity. Here's what I say to you.
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God is not waiting for you to grow up.
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He's waiting for you to step up. From the beginning of human
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history, God is looking for men like you and women like you who
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will say, here I am, God, send me.
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One way that you can look at this verse is to say, yeah, no
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older person is going to look down on me.
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I'm going to stand up for my rights.
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I'm going to stand up for myself.
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I'm going to fight my way to the top.
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Here's another way to look at it.
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Don't let your youth be an excuse for godless living.
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The decisions you're making today are going to affect the
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rest of your life, even as an old man like me.
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And the godly decisions you make will shape the rest of your
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life, even as an old man like me.
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Don't let your youth be an excuse for godless behavior.
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And if you're not young, you're sitting down.
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Some of you barely made it. I can see it guys, if you
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despise this generation, who is that on?
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And maybe God is calling us to not despise this generation and
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maybe we would see this person say, I don't want to be like
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that. I want to be a person who
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challenges the next generation and uses my resources and my
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life to lift them up for the good and glory of God.
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Thank you young people for standing.
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What a beautiful picture of the church.
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You can sit down. Let me tell you why I'm a big
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fan of this. Jesus was a big fan of this.
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Have you ever thought about this?
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I'm going to say something maybe that you have never heard
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before, but if you haven't heard, it's because you've not
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been taught the word of God. Jesus chose 12 men, most likely
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teenagers. He discipled them for three to 3
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1/2 years, and then he commissioned them to change the
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world. Now, let me say it again.
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God chose 12 men, only 11 good ones, most likely teenagers.
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And you're going to say where you saw that?
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I'm going to show it to you in the Bible.
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OK, Train them for 3 1/2 years, still mostly teenagers, and then
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gave them the Great Commission and after they were filled with
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the Holy Spirit, they became the ones who changed the world.
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They're responsible for your faith in Christ.
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I was reading randomly in my Bible reading plan, Matthew 17,
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and somehow was studying also an Old Testament plan in Exodus 30,
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and I came across this verse related to Matthew 17.
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Now you've never heard maybe Matthew 1724 to 27 taught
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because it's a random passage, but if you've read your Bible,
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maybe familiar with it. And if you're not familiar with
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it, I'll help you be familiar with it.
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So Peter was a fisherman, never caught fish unless Jesus came in
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to go fishing. And one day in his journey with
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Jesus, Jesus was to convert them with all his disciples.
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And they walked into the temple. And the temple taxers said, do
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your disciples pay temple tax? And they were a little bit
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stunned. They were all there.
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And so Jesus said to Peter, why don't you go fishing?
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And when you catch a fish, open its mouth and there'll be a coin
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in its mouth. And there's enough money in
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there to pay the tax for you and for me.
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And so that's what Peter did. You know, I don't know if you're
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a fisherman, but usually you can't find fish in their mouth.
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The best you can find is maybe another fish, right?
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But I've looked ever since this verse and there's no money in
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fish's mouth. What is that story all about
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that God's knows the money on the bottom of the ocean.
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He can get fish to pick it up and get it on your hook if
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that's what you need that he can provide for.
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I've, I, I can't imagine what pastors have said about this
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passage. It's because they never read
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Exodus 30, because it's a clue for us about the age of the
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disciples. Because you see, when did you
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have to pay temple tax? You had to pay temple tax when
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you were 20 years old or older. If you're under 20, you didn't
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have to pay. Who was there and Capernaum, All
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of them. Who was the rabbi?
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Jesus, Who was he responsible to pay for?
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All of them. How many had to pay Peter and
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Jesus? You say?
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Well, I'm not convinced. Do you know anything about
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history? Do you study history?
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Here's the ancient Jewish education tradition, and maybe
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this will ring a bell for you. At five, children began to study
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the Scriptures. At 10, they studied the Mishnah,
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which was the authoritative traditional learning.
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At 13, fathers were responsible to teach their sons the Torah,
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which is the first five books of the Bible.
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At 15, if they were chosen by a rabbi because of wealth or
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academic prowess, they could go into a formal education of
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Judaism. Otherwise they would apprentice
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with their father in his business.
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Jesus was a what? Why?
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Joseph was a Carpenter, right? At 18, most married, especially
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the men. For women, it was earlier at 20,
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they could pursue their own business or trade.
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And generally for the very most, you couldn't be a rabbi to where
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you're 30. So how old was Jesus when he
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began to pick his disciples and he lived in a particular
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culture. And who did you pick?
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Who was available, who wasn't involved in business yet, who
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wasn't doing their own thing yet, who wasn't married yet, who
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were being trained as disciples in that culture?
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He said everybody has cults. It was teenagers, men who were
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15 to 18 years old most likely. You see, I'm not convinced yet.
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OK, so Jesus used a term to talk to his disciples.
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Here are the 2 terms. They're Greek terms.
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I won't just tell you the terms because you wouldn't remember
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that anyway. But they meant little children.
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Can you imagine a 30 year old walking around with other
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bearded 30 year olds and he's calling them kids now.
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I call college students kids sometimes because my kids are, I
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have a 40 year old now, right? But but they said we're no kids.
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And I said I don't like doing that.
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But my peers when I was 30, I didn't call them children.
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And even at the end of the journey, Matthew or John chapter
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21, when they're on the beach, he cried out to the little
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children. Do you have any fish?
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And you know what the response was?
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It's the Lord, he said, kids, a new commandment.
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I give you the terms that he uses, and I can give you 7 or 10
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examples. We just don't have time to do
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this. But this is my favorite one.
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Have you noticed the behavior of the disciples?
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They act like grown men to you. OK, what was their most
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prominent argument that they had all of the time?
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Answer. Who is the greatest That's a
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high schooler if you've ever seen one.
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You know any high school athletes, they all think they're
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going to go pro, right? They don't even realize they're
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not athletes until they go to college.
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But some of them go to D2 school, so they still think
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they're athletes. The only real athletes and
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culture are those who get paid for it and all the parents,
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right? They think their kids are going
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to go pro or at least make the Olympics.
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Guys, they are with the GOAT. Jesus is walking on water.
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He's raising the dead. He's casting out demons.
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He's making blind people see deaf people talk.
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He is taking on guys who break chains and he calms them down
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like that. The wind and the waves.
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He settles it all. And what do they do after that?
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Even after they seem transfigured?
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He is glowing. He's a glowing human.
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I'm the greatest. And they fought about it a lot
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and even got their mom involved. Salome, you know, she came.
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Jesus. I don't know.
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I know. You see, my kids picked them
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pretty great. I can't decide which one of them
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is the greatest. I know they've been arguing.
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It's one of them. And it's clearly you're better,
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but which one's going to sit on your right left.
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You choose both my sons one right, one left.
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You talk about a bulldozer Mom, have you ever coached a a use
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right. You guys know exact people are
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people always people. Here's my point.
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Jesus told chose 12 men. And if you don't believe me,
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just chat it, it'll agree with me.
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I promise. Likely teenagers trained them 3
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1/2 years, called them change the world.
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Sound like college to you? Not only did he call them
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disciples, which was learners, but he also called them
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apostles, which means sent. And so from the day that he
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chose them, he said, I'm going to send you.
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And God called Saul as well, not as an old man who had authority,
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but as a young man. And the word used there is also
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the word that's used for a 15 to a 20 something guy when he
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called him an axe when he was watching the coats.
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And then Paul repeated that because he chose Timothy and
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Titus. But it's not just youth that God
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uses, it's godly youth that God uses.
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But it's not just godly youth that God uses.
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It's godly youth who believe in God and it's experience through
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prayer. The first church before the Holy
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Spirit came after Jesus ascended into heaven, before Pentecost.
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He was there 40 days, and he left him for 10 days.
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And what did they do for 10 days?
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For 10 days, they had a church prayer meeting.
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Imagine a 10 day prayer meeting Pastor Brandon That'd be pretty
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cool right And what is Jesus is 1 request of us, his personal
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request of us. We have it as our theme verse in
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the network. Luke 10 to it says you see the
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fields are white and harvest. Therefore pray to the Lord of
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the harvest that he would send forth laborers into the harvest
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and the word that he uses for pray they there is not just any
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word for prayer. It's not the most common word
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for prayer. It's not even the second most
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common word for prayer. It is the singular least word
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used for prayer because it means to beg.
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It's most often translated to beg, Cry out to God that he
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would send forth laborers. So the reaching the next
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generation has been the pattern of God, I believe from biblical
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history. But it's not just from biblical
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history through the disciples. It is every major movement of
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God that we've seen in this country and in the world.
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Oh, you don't believe me? Well, let's review it together.
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Have you heard of this? the Reformation, maybe Martin
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Luther or John Calvin? How old were they when they
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started these movements of God that are still going today?
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Yeah. Martin Luther was 32.
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John Calvin was 25. In the 1500s, God began a
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movement with them. In the 1600s and early 1700s,
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when universities were established in our country, did
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you know this? They were established as
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seminaries, yes. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown,
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Rutgers, Georgetown, and others. Even University of Florida was
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established as a seminary to train pastors for the churches.
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Their mottos, their initial mile is Princeton cursed?
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Is all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.
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Harvard truth for Christ in his church.
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The original motto, Yale truth is given by God.
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Light comes from Christ and the scriptures.
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Is that what students that are going there getting these days?
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In fact, we planted a church in Syracuse, NY on a campus.
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Syracuse, University of Syracuse was established by the Methodist
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to train missionaries to go overseas.
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And they won't even let us be a Christian organization on
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campus. But if you're a godless student
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organization, you are welcome. Isn't that that's crazy?
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I digress. The first great Awakening in
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1700s. Maybe you've heard these names.
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If you haven't, you should read about them and study them.
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George Whitfield at 21. Jonathan Edwards at 19.
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John Wesley at 24 Whitfield has severe asthma and he rose every
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morning at 4 O clock in the morning and he read his Bible on
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his knees. Historians say that he preached
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2 to three times daily and often preached more than 40 hours a
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week. He preached more than 18,000
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sermons in his 34 years of public ministry.
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John Wesley who was friends with him started Methodism.
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He's father of Methodism. He travelled the equivalent of 6
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times around the globe preaching to the colonies on horseback.
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These men were beasts and God used them to change the world.
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The Pietist movement, which gave birth to small group Bible study
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in the mass printing distribution of Bibles in the
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modern mission movement, began a 24/7 prayer meeting that began
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August 17th. To get this, it began August
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17th August of 1727 and encompass every minute of every
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hour of every day. For how many years?
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Take a wild guess, somebody be bold, 26100 years.
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It began with one college student, a professor actually,
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Philip Spencer, and a couple of universities and a handful of
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committed students. 100 years change the world.
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The second great awakening, The 1800s maybe?
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I've heard of DL Moody, he was 21.
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CT stud. If I could pick a pastor name
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that'd be it. Pastor stud.
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Charles Spurgeon guys, when he began he was 16.
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The Prince of preachers. Studs famous quote.
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Is this only one life? It soon will pass.
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Only what is done for Christ will last.
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My hope is when I die that hell rejoices, that I'm out of the
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fight. In 19 O 4, the Welsh revival was
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sparked by one student, Evan Roberts.
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He had a dream that he preached to 17 students.
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He used to pray 4 hours a night. College students, he used to
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pray 4 hours a night. I talked to students today and
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they go, wow, who can do that? Well, you ever gone to a
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football game? We can do that with energy.
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I went to good basketball game last night, but you guys got to
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get some fans. We did it for two hours.
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Oh I, I love this little step. Did you know the average teen
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plays 35 hours of video games a week?
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4 * 7 is only 28. They can play video games more
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than they can pray, right? Call of Duty has been played the
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equivalent of over 3,000,000 years, Fortnite over 10 million
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years. You think those are benefiting
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your life? What if you exchanged video
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games for prayer, or watching sports for prayer or or
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scrolling the social media for prayer?
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Well, this guy, Evan Roberts did it and he preached his first
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sermon to 17 people, eventually leading to over 100,000
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conversions in Wales alone. And from that rival, from that
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revival sparked a movement where over 20 million people came to
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Christ. He's done it before, he'll do it
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again in our country. Maybe you've heard of the
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parachurch movement started in the mid 1900s.
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Nineteen 33 a man named Dawson Trotman at 27 started the
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Navigators. In 1941, Stacy Wood came over
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from Europe. A young Canadian college pastor
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started inter varsity in our country. 1951 a man named Bill
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Bright at 30 started Campus Crusade for Christ, known as
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Crew. And all of those ministries
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swept across the country, reaching hundreds of thousands
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of students and most campuses extended missions literally and
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globally to the ends of the earth.
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Today's a new day. All of those things in the past
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are dying and declining. In fact, over 85% of churches
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are dying and declining. More churches will close their
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doors and sell their buildings for coffee shop this year.
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Then churches will be planted. The least active hour of the
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American People group is Sunday morning.
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Guys, I have seen your traffic and I do not like it.
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No traffic this morning, but I believe God's doing the fresh
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work in this generation. The gospel is alive and well,
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and I believe God is using college students and godly young
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leaders to bring a new revival to this country.
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That's my prayer. That's what I've given my life
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for. And if God would give me two
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lifetimes, I double down again. What begins here changes the
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world. Do you believe that?
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Why not you? Why not here?
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Why not now? You think your campus needs
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Christ? You think your city needs
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Christ? You think anything this world
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offers is going to change their lives and change their forever
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other than Christ. Deal Moody was inspired.
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He was selling shoes, actually. And he was inspired by a pastor
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who said the world is yet to see what God would do with one man
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or one woman who was fully devoted to him.
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The world has yet to see what God would do with one man or one
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woman fully devoted him. And he heard that and he felt
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the conviction of God. And you can read it, he said.
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He said to God, I want to be that man.
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Deal Moody became a world changer, not because of Deal
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Moody, but because of God. A lot of the names I mentioned
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to Gay you'd you've never heard of and that's OK who cares?
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We're not going to sing songs to Deal Moody or CT stud George
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Whitfield or John Wesley. They're just men and they were
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broken and fallen men. But there is a Savior.
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He is the man who is God, Jesus Christ, and he lived the perfect
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life and he died a sinner's death and he resurrected.
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He conquered death. Why?
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So that he could empower us to literally be world changers
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through him. I love St.
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City Chapel. I like the name summer churches.
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They don't pick the best name. You know some of my kids didn't
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pick the best kids grandkids names either, right?
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They don't tell me what they're going to name their kids because
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they're afraid that I will disdain the name.
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And they are right. So I need single symbols,
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syllables, and I need them to not rhyme.
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I was struggling, you know, with all the deluge kids because
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they're all BS and I didn't know which order they were in.
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You know, Blair and Brooks and Billy and Braylon.
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No Blakely. See, I have a Braylon.
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I have a Braylon. Braxton Dachshund.
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I can't remember all of them anyway, so our churches, they
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pick their names and some of them are good, some are not so
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great. Way above average.
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St. City Chapel.
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OK, just in my opinion. In my opinion.
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But there's a church that's called the Commons and it's in
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Michigan State. And here's why it's named the
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Commons. One of my favorite verses in all
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the Bible. Acts 413 When they observed the
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boldness of Peter and John and they realized that they were
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uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized
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that they had been with Jesus. The two Greek words uneducated
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and untrained are literally idiotase right and unschooled.
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OK, so we get the Greek word. What do you think is the English
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word we get from the Greek word idiotase?
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So this verse says these were uneducated idiots and yet
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everybody knew they'd been with Jesus.
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Wow. Show me a college student who
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spends my time with Jesus and I'll show you a world changer.
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Because their life is different, their business is different, and
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God's anointing is on their life.
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And our dream is that God would use a bunch of idiots.
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We're all educated because most of us are going to college,
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right? To see a church that loves
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college students planted at every major university in this
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nation and literally around the globe.
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We're praying for a fresh movement of God where 100 years
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from now somebody will be standing up talking about God,
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going after young people who believe him with all of their
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hearts and give their lives for God.
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And mention someday in 2025 there was something that
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happened in Tempe, AZ that the only explanation that the world
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has is God did it. See Paul writes about this in
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Ephesians 3 verse 20 says now to him who's able to do
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immeasurably more than we think, dream or imagine, to him be the
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glory forever and ever in the church now forever more.
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Here's the thing about the apostle Paul.
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He wasn't talking about something out there.
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He was sitting in the church with Jews and Gentiles and slave
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and free and barbarian and Scythian and male and female,
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and he was actually praying a doxology because he was going
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wow to him is able to do wow. God's got a bigger wow.
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We've seen the movement of God that would have blown the
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Apostle Paul away. And when we started Salt Company
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in 1987 and Iowa State University, we never thought
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there'd be two. And I'm already in the wow of
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the doxology. But I'm telling you, we have 330
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staff in salt Company around this country who believe that we
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don't plant all 400, we will have failed.
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And if that happens, and I believe it will, we'll have a
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move of God in our lifetime that's been unprecedented in any
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of our lives. And we need that now more than
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ever. God help us.
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Jesus, thank you for the world changers in this room.
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Help us as the older generation to never despise the younger
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generation and help the younger generation to fully be devoted
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to you for all of their lives that they would live with no
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regrets. God, thank you for the leaders
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that are here, the men and women who have said yes to you.
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And I pray that two years from now, five years from now, 10
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years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, they
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look back on this moment and they say, wow, look what God has
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done. And Lord, we pray that you would
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continue to bless us, but not just us, every single man or
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woman who claims your name and proclaims your word.
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Because now we're not winning this battle for souls.
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God, the harvest is still plentiful.
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The laborers are few. We cry out to you more, more,
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please, please God, more spark a fire in this flame that in this
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place that would never go out, that would burn until you return
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for your good and for your glory.
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We pray in Jesus name, Amen.