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Not Without Vision · Bayside Davis Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the B-side Davies Podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: You are now listening to our current teaching series, Dr.
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SPEAKER_01: There are moments in history that have opportunities to transform generations.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is one of those moments.
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SPEAKER_01: Bayside Church started thirty years ago with a few people in a living room.
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SPEAKER_01: And a group of people started praying that God would reach grade schoolers, high schoolers, young people in an area of Northern California that had just experienced multiple teen suicides.
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SPEAKER_01: And there was a group of people praying that God would raise up a church to reach the next generation in a living room 30 years ago.
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SPEAKER_01: Never did anyone in that group imagine that Bayside 30 years later would be a collection of churches, 10 churches, 20,000 people a weekend, across Northern California, the largest church in Northern California.
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SPEAKER_01: And in areas that are often unchurched and hard to reach, never would those people imagine the spiritual influence that they were going to be granted by the grace of God and by their just simple trust that God could move in their time and in their generation.
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SPEAKER_01: But the problem with churches that have major widespread spiritual influence is that in the history of a church that has had major spiritual influence, it's easy for that church to become a museum of the past.
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SPEAKER_01: 30 years of incredible ministry, 30 years of growth and expansion and people coming to Jesus and being disciples and lives being transformed.
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SPEAKER_01: Churches often hit a point where they're no longer a spiritual lighthouse, but they are a spiritual relic of the past or museum of the past.
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SPEAKER_01: Churches often become museums when they lose vision for the future.
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SPEAKER_01: Churches often become museums when they quit caring about people.
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SPEAKER_01: And churches often become museums when they stop reaching their world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: They just open their doors and they become an exclusive community for church people, and they lose their heart and their vision that they are existing, not just to be in a place and exist as a religious institution, but to be in a place and make a difference for the future.
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SPEAKER_01: But here's the problem every church has a past.
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SPEAKER_01: Every church once had a moment where there was a spiritual fervency, where there was a sense that God was moving in that particular church.
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SPEAKER_01: But Bayside, we believe, has an amazing future.
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SPEAKER_01: Not every church that has existed has a future.
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SPEAKER_01: But we don't want Bayside Church to be a relic of the past.
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SPEAKER_01: We don't want Bayside Church to become a spiritual museum that people talk about or write in books down the road.
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SPEAKER_01: Can you believe this movement of God back in the 90s and 2000s and so on and so forth?
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SPEAKER_01: We believe that we are just getting started.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a moment in the history of Bayside where we can say, Let us seek God to dream again.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, many of you don't have a 30-year experience with Bayside, most of us.
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SPEAKER_01: But we're a part of this story, we're a newer part of this story.
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SPEAKER_01: In midsummer of 2021, after all the things that happened with COVID-19 and the pandemic and shutting down and being in a scientific community that followed all the regiments, and I'm not saying anything about that, positive or negative or what have you.
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SPEAKER_01: We're not going to get into any of that debate.
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SPEAKER_01: But this city was basically shut down.
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SPEAKER_01: And in the summer, mid-summer of 2021, what had started as a church plant and then died became a new church plant again in the summer of 2021.
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SPEAKER_01: And we started with a handful of people in the summer of 2021, and now it's incredible that Bayside Davis is now the second largest church in the city of Davis.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's not about the numbers, it's not about how many people are coming or what have you.
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SPEAKER_01: It's about what God is doing.
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SPEAKER_01: In the last four weeks, 28 people have given their life to Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Every single week, every single week, five to 13 people raise their hand to give their life to Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a moment of time that we can dream of what God could do in our city and region.
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SPEAKER_01: We are just getting started.
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SPEAKER_01: And we pray and believe that God can use us to reach generations of people in this city and at the university to know Jesus, to learn how to follow Jesus, and to fall in love with Jesus, the Son of God and Savior of the world.
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SPEAKER_01: Today we launch next, the next 30 years of Bayside.
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SPEAKER_01: 30 years that we've been praying about, dreaming about, thinking about, and now we want to unveil it to all of our churches and all of our local communities so that we can dream again of what God can do.
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SPEAKER_01: And when we think about what God can do, there's a number of elements that are a part of a move of God.
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SPEAKER_01: And the first element we want to lean into today is this not without vision.
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SPEAKER_01: God cannot move without vision.
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SPEAKER_01: God cannot do what he's done, maybe in an exponential degree in the next 30 years in Bayside in Northern California and beyond without vision.
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SPEAKER_01: Look with me at Proverbs chapter 29, verse 18.
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SPEAKER_01: Proverbs 29, verse 18, talks about the importance of vision.
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SPEAKER_01: It says verse 18, where there is no vision or no revelation, it could be translated either way, people cast off restraint.
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SPEAKER_01: But blessed is the one who heeds wisdom's instruction.
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SPEAKER_01: Where there is no vision, let's just stop right there.
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SPEAKER_01: The Hebrew term for vision, kazon, means to see.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the literal idea.
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SPEAKER_01: It can be rendered prophetic revelation, revelation that God gives a prophet of God in the Old Testament, or literally to see.
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SPEAKER_01: Think about that.
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SPEAKER_01: Any visionary in society sees something that nobody else sees.
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SPEAKER_01: Any visionary in church history, any visionary in biblical history sees things from God that nobody sees at the time.
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SPEAKER_01: Moses saw that his people needed to be set free before the Exodus.
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SPEAKER_01: Joshua saw the promised land as a land for God's people before any of the people believed.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus saw 12 disciples who would change the world before they even knew they could do anything significant in the kingdom of God.
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SPEAKER_01: Paul saw the Roman Empire turning to Jesus before he set foot on the cities to plant churches and tell people about Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Visionaries change the world.
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SPEAKER_01: They changed generations.
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SPEAKER_01: This is an interesting term.
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SPEAKER_01: The meaning of this term seems to warn that those who don't have a goal or a plan for the future have nothing to guide them onward, so they go any which way.
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SPEAKER_01: We are spiritually meant to have a goal, a vision for the future.
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SPEAKER_01: That's why the great preacher who's still alive, he's in his 90s today, Charles Swindle, he says vision is essential for survival.
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SPEAKER_01: It is spawned by faith, sustained by hope, sparked by imagination, and strengthened by enthusiasm.
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SPEAKER_01: It is greater than sight, deeper than a dream, broader than an idea.
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SPEAKER_01: Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.
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SPEAKER_01: No wonder we perish without it.
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SPEAKER_01: Every church, every follower of Jesus needs vision for the future.
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SPEAKER_01: The Sudes wrote way back in the day: no institution can survive without a vision to pull it forward.
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SPEAKER_01: Without vision, without revelation, people cast off restraint.
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SPEAKER_01: Without vision or divine revelation, people literally can render this, translate this, run wild, go out of control, veer off on unhealthy paths where there is no communication from God, where there is no vision from God.
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SPEAKER_01: People run wild, the Bible says.
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SPEAKER_01: And everyone said, Amen and amen.
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SPEAKER_01: By the way, anybody who's passing out these books, you guys can sit for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be a while.
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SPEAKER_01: So feel free to grab a seat and I will cue you in about 30 minutes.
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SPEAKER_01: You guys are the best.
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SPEAKER_01: For a church to have a future, it has to have vision from God.
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SPEAKER_01: We, us across Baysai, but in particular us in our community, because we feel the weight of this burden, we can collectively do something that changes generations in this city.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you believe that?
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SPEAKER_01: We can collectively do something that changes generations in this city, but we can't do it without vision from God.
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SPEAKER_01: That's why we sit here on the precipice of a moment where we are asking God to move.
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SPEAKER_01: You might say, well, how do we gain vision?
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SPEAKER_01: Three three ways that we gain vision.
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SPEAKER_01: I think these will all be on the screen as well.
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SPEAKER_01: You write these down.
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SPEAKER_01: Number one, vision comes from God's word.
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SPEAKER_01: So if you're a follower of Jesus, if you're a Christian and you're like, I want vision from God, I want direction for my future, I want to encourage you to begin to have the discipline, the spiritual habit or rhythm of reading your Bible.
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SPEAKER_01: You might say, Well, where do I start?
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SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of new followers of Jesus in our community.
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SPEAKER_01: Where do I start?
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SPEAKER_01: Start in Matthew.
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SPEAKER_01: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.
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SPEAKER_01: Read the four Gospels and then read them again.
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SPEAKER_01: Get to know Jesus in a deep and intimate way.
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SPEAKER_01: Read your Bible, it will give you vision from God.
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SPEAKER_01: Second, vision comes through prayer.
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SPEAKER_01: Seeking God.
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SPEAKER_01: Lord, I want you to move in my life.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to move in my family.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to move in my generation.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to do something that only you can do.
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SPEAKER_01: Give me vision, God.
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SPEAKER_01: We need to be a Bible people reading through the scriptures.
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SPEAKER_01: We need to be a praying people, seeking the face and heart of God.
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SPEAKER_01: And vision comes through divine burdens.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you ever just live your life?
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SPEAKER_01: You're on your campus, you're in your community, you're in your house, you're in your workplace, and the Spirit of God gives you a burden for the people around you.
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SPEAKER_01: I am praying that we have a divine burden for our community, for the university campus, for every business and workplace and household in our city, that there is a divine burden that God gives us because I feel this burden that a lot of people say, well, you know, they're like, why would you plant a sit a church in Davis?
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SPEAKER_01: Like no church, most churches stay under a hundred people in Davis.
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SPEAKER_01: It is a really hard place to plant a church.
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SPEAKER_01: Any place where there is an intellectual capital, a university, is a very hard place to plant a church.
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SPEAKER_01: Because you have two different narratives at work.
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SPEAKER_01: You have the narrative of Christianity in the Bible, and you have the narrative of whatever secular culture is saying at that time.
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SPEAKER_01: And sometimes in an intellectual city, people worship their mind more than they worship the one who created their mind, God.
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SPEAKER_01: And so you have these contrasting narratives and beliefs and philosophies, and ultimately you have contrasting theologies.
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SPEAKER_01: Because even secularism is religious, they just believe that secularism is the way for human life.
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SPEAKER_01: But the problem is if you're studying sociology right now, you're seeing in the Western world there's a death to secularism.
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SPEAKER_01: Because all of these people who have bought into the lie of secularism are realizing that secularism can never do what our souls desire and long for secularism to do.
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SPEAKER_01: Only God can do that.
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SPEAKER_01: So we need divine burdens.
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SPEAKER_01: God, we want to feel a deep burden and love for our community and city.
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SPEAKER_01: We want to see you work and move and do something in our generation to change generations.
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SPEAKER_01: But what is vision from God's word?
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SPEAKER_01: What is vision from prayer?
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SPEAKER_01: What is vision from divine burdens look like?
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SPEAKER_01: Would everybody turn with me now to the book of Acts, chapter 1, verse 8?
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SPEAKER_01: The beautiful thing is that some of these visions we don't have to conjure up.
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SPEAKER_01: We don't have to be like, oh, you know, like me and Tristan sitting in the office all day, like on the whiteboard, writing down, like, what's my plan?
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SPEAKER_01: Like, let's come up with a better plan than God.
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SPEAKER_01: No, we just open up the Bible and it gives us the plan, the vision.
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SPEAKER_01: And we just have to contextualize that vision to our culture and our generation.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus gave a vision for the church that's way better than mine and slightly better than Tristan's.
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SPEAKER_01: Verse 8, Acts 1, but you, all of you, plural, this is not singular, this is plural.
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SPEAKER_01: But you will receive power.
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SPEAKER_01: Dunamis is the term.
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SPEAKER_01: When the Holy Spirit comes on you, you're gonna receive power from God by the Holy Spirit.
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SPEAKER_01: And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria, and then notice, and to the ends of the earth.
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SPEAKER_01: You will receive power.
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SPEAKER_01: This is spiritual power.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the power of Christ's own presence at work in our life that gives us the ability to do something.
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SPEAKER_01: But the problem here is he says, you've got to wait for this.
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SPEAKER_01: How many of us are good at waiting for anything?
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SPEAKER_01: We're like, God, you want to do something, but you're telling me I have to wait?
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SPEAKER_01: That it's gonna take time, like that the vision's gonna come to fruition, but I need to be sitting in your presence until you give me the go.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like that song we sang, Here I Am, Lord, send me, but sometimes we say, Here I am, Lord, send me, and he says, wait.
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SPEAKER_01: Because it's my time.
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SPEAKER_01: I can only imagine that when I came here in 2020 and I got I was an early adopter of COVID-19.
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SPEAKER_01: I came from Southern California, and the day, the day the the last truck of stuff pulled in the driveway, I was sick as I've ever been in my life.
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SPEAKER_01: I thought I was gonna die.
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SPEAKER_01: It was the sickest I've ever been, 104.9 temperature for five days straight, sweating through clothes multiple times a day.
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SPEAKER_01: I thought I was gonna die.
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SPEAKER_01: Everybody was like, you should go to the hospital.
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SPEAKER_01: I didn't go.
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SPEAKER_01: I thought I just had the flu.
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SPEAKER_01: And for a year and a half, I'm sitting in a home.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't really go anywhere.
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SPEAKER_01: Everybody's afraid to like see each other, like talk, have a conversation.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm like, for a year and a half, I had to wait.
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SPEAKER_01: And to be honest with you, can I just be honest?
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SPEAKER_01: Church should not be a show of Christianity, it should be a bunch of real people that like are real, right?
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SPEAKER_01: There are so many moments that I was like really depressed, and so many moments I was so discouraged, I was just like, I'm out of here.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, what?
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SPEAKER_01: I want to quit.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, I this hasn't even like there's nothing here.
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SPEAKER_01: And I planted a church in 2018 from scratch, scratch, and I said, I will never do that again.
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SPEAKER_01: It was amazing.
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SPEAKER_01: Thousands of people, lots of people came to Christ, amazing.
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SPEAKER_01: Pastored it for 10 years, but the work and spiritual burden of starting a church from scratch is really hard.
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SPEAKER_01: So for that year and a half, I was like, I don't know if I want to do this.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's no momentum, everything just basically died in COVID-19.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, businesses are closing down, coffee shops, restaurants, churches are closing down, church plants can't even plant their church, so like, how do you have any momentum?
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SPEAKER_01: And then over time, the Lord was like, No, no, I've got something I want to do in this city.
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SPEAKER_01: But sometimes you have to wait.
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SPEAKER_01: And the Lord is saying, when you wait, you have to know that you are gonna receive power from God to fulfill the mission God has called you to.
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SPEAKER_01: When God calls you to a mission, God equips you for that mission.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of us were like, oh, you know, like I'm afraid, I'm insecure, I failed too much in my past, God can't use me.
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SPEAKER_01: By the way, I feel all those things, so you're just normal.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're afraid, you're insecure, you feel like you've messed up in your past that God can't use you.
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SPEAKER_01: Here's the beautiful thing: God wants to use you, God wants to use us, and God equips us for that mission.
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SPEAKER_01: When God calls you to a mission, God empowers you for that mission.
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SPEAKER_01: He equips you and he empowers you to do what he can only do.
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SPEAKER_01: Think about it, like my iPad, this is a newer iPad.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm figuring it out, it's awesome.
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SPEAKER_01: But I'm still I'm missing fonts.
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SPEAKER_01: I had something this morning, I was like, oh, I'm missing that font, and you know, I care about fonts and all that stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm a very like aesthetic design artistic type of person, so I see the world through beauty, and I was like, I don't have that font, I need that font for this, and like this is a new iPad.
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SPEAKER_01: But the person who designed the iPad also designed the battery to power it.
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SPEAKER_01: I see, I see a couple uh Teslas roll in, somebody's got an electric Porsche in our church, and like I see that roll in, and like really nice cars out there.
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SPEAKER_01: The person who designed your Porsche or your Tesla also designed the battery to power it.
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SPEAKER_01: The God who's called you and created you has also designed the Spirit of God to develop, cultivate, and empower you for every calling God has for your life.
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SPEAKER_01: And he says, notice what he says here, he says, You will be my witnesses.
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SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit's gonna come on you, Acts chapter 2.
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SPEAKER_01: The Spirit comes down, and you will be my witnesses.
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SPEAKER_01: Which means we collectively have a calling.
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SPEAKER_01: We are a lighthouse in every city that we go to, the church.
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SPEAKER_01: Our collective calling is to be witnesses of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
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SPEAKER_01: To tell the world that your sins can be forgiven, that your life can be transformed, that your shame and guilt can be washed away in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: That where you feel down and discouraged and depressed and light.
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SPEAKER_01: And hopeless, that the resurrection of the Son of God gives you hope and life and encouragement and a vision for your future as a child of the living God.
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SPEAKER_01: We are called to testify of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes churches become about a person or a group of people.
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SPEAKER_01: And can I just say this church is not about me?
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SPEAKER_01: And this church is not about any individual person that you might be encouraged spiritually.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm just a person like you.
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SPEAKER_01: And I think more spiritual leaders should like put the ground even.
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SPEAKER_01: Like we are no different than you.
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SPEAKER_01: We just have a different gift.
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SPEAKER_01: We're no different than you.
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SPEAKER_01: The church is never about a person.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what I love about Pastor Ray, the founder of Basign.
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SPEAKER_01: He is he is known as probably one of the great Christian leaders of our time.
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SPEAKER_01: He pastors every major Christian leader in the United States that I know goes to Ray to be pastored.
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SPEAKER_01: He is a visionary par excellence, one of the best, maybe the best leader I've ever been around in my life.
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SPEAKER_01: And he's building a church of bringing in leaders who have led major movements of God, big church, you know, major churches in the world, like Mark Clark, who led the largest church in the country of Canada, Andrew, who led the largest church in Ireland.
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SPEAKER_01: He's bringing all these leaders in.
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SPEAKER_01: He's not like, oh, I don't want really like great gifted people on my team because I'm going to feel insecure.
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SPEAKER_01: No, he's not like that.
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SPEAKER_01: He's like, I want the greatest team I can possibly assemble by the Spirit of God so that we collectively can do what God has called us to do with this vision that God has given us.
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SPEAKER_01: And what's beautiful about that is he rarely teaches.
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SPEAKER_01: If you know anything about pastors, like they they want to teach, they want to speak.
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SPEAKER_01: And here's one of the greatest Christian leaders in our generation, in our time, and he's giving up the pulpit to other people.
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SPEAKER_01: Because he just knows he's a human and God is going to use him in great ways no matter what he does.
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SPEAKER_01: But the sense of humility that this church is not about me, it's about Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: And anybody who comes on this team, if it's about you, you won't last at Bayside because it better be about Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: I remember when we were talking about me coming to Bayside and being a lead pastor of one of their churches, they said, we don't want gifted leaders who can't play in the sandbox with other gifted leaders.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of you are on teams, you know this.
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SPEAKER_01: You have like a really gifted athlete on your team, and they can't play in the sandbox.
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SPEAKER_01: They want to be the center of attention and they bring division and it's all about them.
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SPEAKER_01: We don't want that on our team at Bayside.
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SPEAKER_01: We want humble, Jesus-loving people who are gonna point people to Jesus, and we're just humans.
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SPEAKER_01: This church is about being witnesses to Jesus in our generation.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, I know LeBron James stole this slogan.
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SPEAKER_01: Nike did too, and I love Nike.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm from Oregon I'm a Nike guy.
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SPEAKER_01: I pastored lots of people from Nike.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, but LeBron James stole this.
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SPEAKER_01: He said, you know, he came on the scene, he's like, we are witnesses.
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SPEAKER_01: No, this is about Jesus, not you, LeBron.
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SPEAKER_01: Although I'm a fan of LeBron.
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SPEAKER_01: I know a lot of people hate on me because of that, but you know, it's okay.
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SPEAKER_01: We are witnesses to Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Now notice what he says next.
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SPEAKER_01: He gives a plan, a strategic plan.
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SPEAKER_01: He says, You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
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SPEAKER_01: This was the plan of God for the geographical expansion of the good news of Jesus throughout the world.
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SPEAKER_01: Started in Jerusalem, which was the religious capital of Israel, then Judea, the southern part of Israel, then Samaria, the central part of Israel, then the ends of the earth, which was a geographic and ethnic uh term inclusive of all people and locales throughout the earth.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, if you're a Bible student, I want you to know this is also the outline for the book of Acts.
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SPEAKER_01: Acts chapter 2, verses 1 through chapter 7, verse 60, the gospel to Jerusalem.
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SPEAKER_01: Acts chapter 8, verse 1 through chapter 11, verse 18, the gospel to Judea and Samaria.
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SPEAKER_01: Acts chapter 11, verse 19 through 28, 31, the end of the book, the gospel to the ends of the earth.
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SPEAKER_01: But I want I want us to like take a second and look at this section and note a couple points here.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at verse 8.
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SPEAKER_01: Notice a couple things.
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SPEAKER_01: There's three keys to this vision and mission in the book of Acts.
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SPEAKER_01: Number one, write this down.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're a note taker, write it down.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're not, grab your Apple notes, your Google notes, your whatever notes, and write it down.
27:25
SPEAKER_01: Number one, Jesus is the center of our vision.
27:31
SPEAKER_01: Notice what he says, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be Wesley Town's witnesses, no.
27:39
SPEAKER_01: Nate's witnesses, no.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: Will's witnesses, no, Jen's witnesses, no.
27:47
SPEAKER_01: You will be my witnesses.
27:51
SPEAKER_01: The center of this vision is Jesus.
27:54
SPEAKER_01: He is the savior of the world, the light of the world, the redeemer of all people.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus, Jesus is calling us to be a light to our city, region, state, and world, and that needs to be centered on Him.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
28:13
SPEAKER_01: Jesus is the center of our vision.
28:15
SPEAKER_01: Number two, the Holy Spirit empowers the vision.
28:19
SPEAKER_01: In order, we're just broken, sinful, imperfect people, flawed.
28:25
SPEAKER_01: Maybe you're like not me, Wesley, but maybe you're not like the rest of us, but we're all flawed, broken, sinful people.
28:34
SPEAKER_01: And yet God wants to use us.
28:38
SPEAKER_01: I think there's a beauty in that because it brings us to a place of humility.
28:44
SPEAKER_01: It's like, how how sometimes I don't know about you, Will, but sometimes I'm like, I wake up in the morning and I'm not like, oh Lord, of course you use me.
28:55
SPEAKER_01: I wake up in the morning and I'm like, man, how do you use me, God?
29:01
SPEAKER_01: This is grace.
29:03
SPEAKER_01: This is pure grace at work in and through my life.
29:10
SPEAKER_01: It's the Spirit of God who empowers and equips us for that mission to this world.
29:17
SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit is the one doing the work.
29:20
SPEAKER_01: Never, ever get to the point where you're like, oh, it's me.
29:23
SPEAKER_01: I read my Bible and I have quiet time and I have silence and solitude and I fast and pray and do all these things and go to church and tithe and all this stuff.
29:31
SPEAKER_01: It's me.
29:32
SPEAKER_01: If you get to that point, you're missing the whole reality.
29:35
SPEAKER_01: It's God at work in and through your life.
29:41
SPEAKER_01: That's the danger with the spiritual discipline movement.
29:46
SPEAKER_01: It's like you start doing all these things and checking all your boxes, and you think, oh wow, I'm pretty good.
29:52
SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty Christian.
29:53
SPEAKER_01: I do all the rhythms and all these things, and I read all John Mark's books, and like I follow all these practices of Jesus.
30:00
SPEAKER_01: All great things.
30:04
SPEAKER_01: But not if you start to believe that every good thing that's happening in your life is because of what you're doing.
30:11
SPEAKER_01: It's not, it's what God is doing, and you're just giving him the room to do it.
30:17
SPEAKER_01: You're just creating the space for him to work in your life.
30:20
SPEAKER_01: Number three, this is really important.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus gave us a vision for the world.
30:28
SPEAKER_01: Jesus gave us a vision for the world.
30:31
SPEAKER_01: That is up there, right?
30:32
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
30:32
SPEAKER_01: You're the best.
30:34
SPEAKER_01: Logan is an all-star in our church.
30:37
SPEAKER_01: I just love Logan.
30:40
SPEAKER_01: Here's the vision: the gospel of Jesus to everyone everywhere.
30:46
SPEAKER_01: I've been so encouraged.
30:48
SPEAKER_01: Since probably November, every week we share the gospel at the end of the service, and people raise their hands, and every week it's like five to 13 people coming to Christ.
31:00
SPEAKER_01: I've been so encouraged.
31:02
SPEAKER_01: This is why we do what we do.
31:04
SPEAKER_01: I think there's 13 people signed up for baptism today.
31:09
SPEAKER_01: And more, some of you need to get baptized today in obedience to Jesus.
31:17
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
31:19
SPEAKER_01: I'm just so encouraged.
31:20
SPEAKER_01: And you know, for you who have received Christ recently and for you who have signed up to be baptized, we are so encouraged what God is doing in your life.
31:30
SPEAKER_01: We're here to pastor you and encourage you and tell you about Jesus and see you fall in love with your Savior and your creator and learn what it means to be a disciple and follower of Jesus, a son or daughter of the living God.
31:45
SPEAKER_01: We're so encouraged.
31:46
SPEAKER_01: Jesus gave us a vision for the world.
31:49
SPEAKER_01: The gospel of Jesus to everyone everywhere.
31:54
SPEAKER_01: And then he expands that vision throughout the book of Acts, which is the gospel of Jesus to everyone everywhere.
32:00
SPEAKER_01: Go make disciples and plant churches everywhere.
32:06
SPEAKER_01: Planting churches has been the single greatest and most influential method to reach people for Jesus in the entirety of church history.
32:18
SPEAKER_01: You come to a very non-Christian city like Davis, you get a couple people, Luke, Jen, you get a couple people, Kelly, you get a couple people, Nate, you were here at the beginning, you get a couple people, Linda, and you just start following the Lord together.
32:42
SPEAKER_01: And then four years later, hundreds of people are part of it.
32:45
SPEAKER_01: You never know what God can do.
32:49
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's it's been a really cool thing.
32:52
SPEAKER_01: We started this internship, which I did in my first church plant as well, but never seen anything like this.
32:59
SPEAKER_01: Last year, 92 people signed up for our internship.
33:04
SPEAKER_01: Where we are directly, I personally am directly helping them to grow spiritually, mentor them, and teaching them the Bible.
33:13
SPEAKER_01: So, like theological equipping, so on and so forth.
33:16
SPEAKER_01: And these these people are incredible who are doing our internships.
33:20
SPEAKER_01: Now, that was last year, and I was like, I said to Kelly, I was like, there's no way that that's gonna happen again.
33:25
SPEAKER_01: Like, that's just an anomaly.
33:27
SPEAKER_01: That's like crazy to happen, like in anywhere.
33:30
SPEAKER_01: Like, I know churches of 10,000 people that don't have 92 people signing up for their internship in a year.
33:36
SPEAKER_01: Well, we're four months into this year, and 62 people have signed up for our internship this year.
33:43
SPEAKER_01: Four months.
33:46
SPEAKER_01: And we just launched this discipleship thing called rooted, discipleship in in community across Bayside.
33:53
SPEAKER_01: Over 5,000 people in the first session did it.
33:55
SPEAKER_01: But in our in our smaller uh context, we've had 60 people or more, maybe more.
34:05
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
34:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm not counting right.
34:07
SPEAKER_01: Well, we had 50 and then 70, 90 people uh have almost finished this discipleship where they're growing and learning in community how to follow Jesus.
34:18
SPEAKER_01: Like, this is remarkable what God is doing in a city like Davis.
34:27
SPEAKER_01: The early church changed the world by investing in this vision.
34:32
SPEAKER_01: Now, we got something cool to unveil today.
34:37
SPEAKER_01: So, uh, could I have all of our brochure passer outers pass out?
34:45
SPEAKER_01: Everybody, everybody grab one small and one large brochure.
34:50
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna pass them down the line.
34:52
SPEAKER_01: And then I don't want you to look in the big one, I want you to take this small one, this small one right here out.
35:01
SPEAKER_01: Everybody grab one of these.
35:06
SPEAKER_01: And we have to do what Pastor Ray does, this legend of ours.
35:12
SPEAKER_01: Every time he open, he loves brochures, by the way.
35:16
SPEAKER_01: Every time we're gonna open it together and we're gonna say something.
35:19
SPEAKER_01: So everybody grab your brochure.
35:25
SPEAKER_01: Get a small one and a large one.
35:29
SPEAKER_01: And then don't open them, don't open them.
35:31
SPEAKER_01: Keep them closed, keep them closed.
35:33
SPEAKER_01: Everybody keep them closed.
35:34
SPEAKER_01: I know you're tempted.
35:36
SPEAKER_01: Small one first, keep them closed.
35:50
SPEAKER_01: Everybody keep them closed, keep them closed.
35:53
SPEAKER_01: All right, does everybody have a brochure?
35:56
SPEAKER_01: Everybody got a brochure, small and large.
35:59
SPEAKER_01: There's two of them.
36:07
SPEAKER_01: Great job, brochure, passer, outer team.
36:11
SPEAKER_01: You guys are like point guards for Jesus, quarterbacks for Christ.
36:20
SPEAKER_01: All right, all right, everybody, brochure closed.
36:23
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna do this.
36:24
SPEAKER_01: This is what the legendary Ray does when he opens a brochure.
36:27
SPEAKER_01: It's amazing.
36:28
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
36:29
SPEAKER_01: He says, WAMO.
36:30
SPEAKER_01: So on three.
36:31
SPEAKER_01: One, two, three.
36:34
SPEAKER_01: We can do better than that.
36:36
SPEAKER_01: One, two, three, whammo! Okay, so basically, this is a 30-year campaign.
36:44
SPEAKER_01: This is our campus brochure.
36:45
SPEAKER_01: Everybody grab this.
36:48
SPEAKER_01: The first part of this brochure is for Bayside, we believe that people are always our priority.
36:58
SPEAKER_01: So we have 83 compassion projects that we would love to be served in this vision and compassion campaign.
37:11
SPEAKER_01: So everybody grab a seat.
37:12
SPEAKER_01: If you were a brochure passer outer, grab a seat, grab your brochure.
37:17
SPEAKER_01: 83 projects.
37:20
SPEAKER_01: Now, I want to draw your attention to a few of these.
37:25
SPEAKER_01: The first one is number one, Faith Alive Children's Hospital.
37:28
SPEAKER_01: Now, many years back, we built a hospital in Josh, Nigeria.
37:33
SPEAKER_01: Five million dollars.
37:34
SPEAKER_01: Uh Bayside raised the money.
37:37
SPEAKER_01: We built the hospital.
37:39
SPEAKER_01: And the two people, the two doctors who started the hospital, are both from Nigeria.
37:46
SPEAKER_01: And they trained at the Mayo Clinic.
37:48
SPEAKER_01: They're both surgeons, trained at the Mayo Clinic, number one hospital on planet Earth.
37:54
SPEAKER_01: Best place to train.
37:56
SPEAKER_01: They trained at the Mayo Clinic.
37:58
SPEAKER_01: They had a vision for their country to have a free hospital.
38:04
SPEAKER_01: They shared the vision, we're connected to them, and we built the hospital.
38:10
SPEAKER_01: Four million patients have been seen for free.
38:16
SPEAKER_01: Every single patient gets free health care, free food, Bible study, the gospel, worship, and prayer.
38:26
SPEAKER_01: Every single patient.
38:28
SPEAKER_01: They came to us and they said, We don't have a children's hospital in our country.
38:34
SPEAKER_01: There's no children's hospital.
38:36
SPEAKER_01: And we said, let's build a children's hospital.
38:40
SPEAKER_01: And this is a part of there's five categories of compassion that we would love to fund.
38:47
SPEAKER_01: To change the world, to care about people, to make a difference.
38:52
SPEAKER_01: You know, there's not many moments in our life where we have we say we have an opportunity to change the world.
38:57
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna highlight just a couple.
39:00
SPEAKER_01: For one million dollars, we can build a children's hospital that sees kids in Nigeria for free every day of the week, year round.
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SPEAKER_01: One million dollars.
39:17
SPEAKER_01: That is pennies in America.
39:24
SPEAKER_01: By the way, we just launched this, and two individuals across Bayside, just two people, two families.
39:32
SPEAKER_01: We just launched this, two families each, one family and another family wrote a five million dollar check each.
39:42
SPEAKER_01: Because they're like, we want to change the world.
39:47
SPEAKER_01: We want God to do something in our generation, in our city, in our region, in our state, in our country, and around the world to change this world.
39:58
SPEAKER_01: So we want to build Faith Alive Children's Hospital.
40:00
SPEAKER_01: So I'm at Bernice and Lacius' wedding.
40:03
SPEAKER_01: Lacius is from Nigeria, and I'm meeting all of these amazing people from Nigeria.
40:10
SPEAKER_01: There's a couple there, they're both from Joss, Nigeria.
40:14
SPEAKER_01: I share about the children's hospital.
40:16
SPEAKER_01: They knew that we helped to build Faith Alive Hospital in downtown Joss.
40:20
SPEAKER_01: I share about the children's hospital, they're blown away.
40:23
SPEAKER_01: A couple days later, they write me this email.
40:25
SPEAKER_01: They said, This beyond the wonderful festivity festives, festivities, however you say that, I have three degrees and I don't know how to talk.
40:36
SPEAKER_01: My wife and I have been deeply moved and incredibly grateful for the remarkable work Bayside Church is undertaking.
40:43
SPEAKER_01: Particularly in my beloved hometown of Joss, Nigeria.
40:46
SPEAKER_01: As I've had the pleasure of sharing with you our recent visit to Faith Alive in downtown Joss, graciously facilitated by Dr.
40:53
SPEAKER_01: Chris, offered us a first-hand glimpse into the profound and tangible impact your ministry is having on the ground.
41:00
SPEAKER_01: It is truly inspiring to witness God's hand moving through Bayside Church to bring about positive change.
41:05
SPEAKER_01: The news of the upcoming Children's Hospital Initiative was not merely a pleasant surprise.
41:10
SPEAKER_01: It was truly astonishing and profoundly encouraging.
41:14
SPEAKER_01: To our knowledge, a dedicated children's hospital of this nature does not exist anywhere else in this entire nation, underscoring the monumental need and the incredible foresight of Bayside Church.
41:26
SPEAKER_01: This endeavor will undoubtedly be a beacon of hope, providing life-saving care and transforming countless futures in a region so desperate for specialized medical attention for its youngest and most vulnerable.
41:39
SPEAKER_01: This is precisely the kind of kingdom-building work that makes an eternal difference in a world so desperately in need of compassion and healing.
41:47
SPEAKER_01: Listen, they didn't know, Lakeus.
41:52
SPEAKER_01: Stand up, Lace.
41:54
SPEAKER_01: I love you.
41:58
SPEAKER_01: Lakeus parents are church planners in Nigeria.
42:05
SPEAKER_01: They had no idea that I would be officiating the wedding with you and Bernice.
42:11
SPEAKER_01: Where is Bernice?
42:13
SPEAKER_01: With you and Bernice, who's back there serving.
42:16
SPEAKER_01: They had no idea, and God collided our lives in that moment.
42:20
SPEAKER_01: And I said, guess what?
42:22
SPEAKER_01: We're about to launch a next 30-year vision and compassion campaign across Bayside, and here's what we want to do in your country.
42:31
SPEAKER_01: What a blessing! And then your brother came up to me in this conversation and said, Oh, yeah, my sister serves in that hospital.
42:42
SPEAKER_01: His sister works in this hospital that Bayside built, that hopefully is a beacon of hope and light in your home country.
42:53
SPEAKER_01: What a blessing.
42:54
SPEAKER_01: We love you.
42:54
SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Bayside Davis, my friend.
42:59
SPEAKER_01: Listen, that's just one of 83 compassion projects with five different categories that we want to fund.
43:08
SPEAKER_01: Another one is this is so amazing.
43:10
SPEAKER_01: Look at number 12, JVI.
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SPEAKER_01: Justice Ventures International.
43:15
SPEAKER_01: They work primarily in India.
43:17
SPEAKER_01: Kurt, Kurt, stand up.
43:22
SPEAKER_01: Kurt is a part of that organization and he goes to our church.
43:26
SPEAKER_01: This guy's like a major.
43:30
SPEAKER_01: No, stand up, Kurt.
43:32
SPEAKER_01: This guy's got like 30 patents.
43:34
SPEAKER_01: He's he's he never worked in this type of field before, but he's he has like 30 patents.
43:40
SPEAKER_01: He's built all these medical devices.
43:42
SPEAKER_01: He's been in like thousands of surgeries, right?
43:45
SPEAKER_01: Thousands of surgeries.
43:46
SPEAKER_01: Um he's like a genius in the medical device world.
43:51
SPEAKER_01: And and now he's at the end of his career and he says, I just want to make a difference in this world.
43:58
SPEAKER_01: Starts, starts, starts.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: Serving with his, he was a college wrestler, his friend was a college, uh, was he a football player, a wrestler?
44:06
SPEAKER_01: And then his his friend became a lawyer, went to DC, did his lawyer thing in DC, and God gave him a vision to start an organization that rescues vis victims in India from sex trafficking, provides legal help for the person and their family, and then they have aftercare with local agencies to restore that person and prevent further exploitation, and you get the bad guys in the courts prosecuted and they go to jail, so they can't do it again.
44:45
SPEAKER_01: He is a major part of this organization now.
44:49
SPEAKER_01: These are the kind of things that we get to do, but this is just the start.
44:54
SPEAKER_01: We believe that compassion always begins everything that we do.
44:59
SPEAKER_01: And I can't highlight all of this because we will be here all day long, and you're like, Wesley, I love this, but I don't want to be here all day long.
45:06
SPEAKER_01: But I want you to turn to the back.
45:09
SPEAKER_01: So collectively, 15% of everything that we invest in this future campaign for Bayside and all these compassion projects and all these projects, 15% we have agreed across all of our churches that 15% is going to fund all of these compassion projects and global vision, which we're gonna get to more next week.
45:31
SPEAKER_01: But we also have local projects that we believe if we dream together, God can fulfill.
45:40
SPEAKER_01: Compassion first because it's who we are.
45:43
SPEAKER_01: We will never stop putting people first.
45:45
SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if you looked at the number, but$7.9 million will go to funding all of these organizations to change the world.
45:54
SPEAKER_01: That's amazing.
45:55
SPEAKER_01: Like I want to be invested in that, I want to partner with that.
46:00
SPEAKER_01: Now, I want you to look at the back because this is really exciting.
46:03
SPEAKER_01: We have four projects that we want to invest in in our local community, and the number one project is a really big thing, we believe.
46:15
SPEAKER_01: We have been in discussions uh with an owner of basically 90,000 square feet of commercial building in downtown Davis, and we are in discussions with securing a permanent home in downtown Davis.
46:42
SPEAKER_01: We would love to be at the center of our city, a place where people drive by and walk by and go to coffee and go to, you know, eat and see their friends and whatever they do in downtown Davis.
46:56
SPEAKER_01: And we would love a place where we can be open seven days a week to do ministry for Jesus.
47:06
SPEAKER_01: A permanent home would allow us to do more ministry, reach more people for Jesus, and build a lasting spiritual influence for Jesus right in the heart of the city of Davis.
47:18
SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine having a church baside, baside signs everywhere in the heart of our city that's connected to our community, that believes that this is a place that God can move in our generation?
47:33
SPEAKER_01: This is a phenomenal opportunity.
47:37
SPEAKER_01: And we have been working on this for some time, and we believe that we're at a moment that if all of us collectively participate in what God could do, that we could secure a permanent home in the heart of the city of Davis and have a lasting spiritual influence for generations in our city.
48:02
SPEAKER_01: This is an amazing opportunity.
48:04
SPEAKER_01: Second, you know, we're a church that's no longer a church of 50 or 100 people, but hundreds of people now.
48:13
SPEAKER_01: And uh primarily, I am I am the only pastor of Bayside Davis.
48:22
SPEAKER_01: And I know because I've done this before that it's so important that you know, any human, they say they say one pastor can only really pastor 150 people.
48:32
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm pastoring more than double that.
48:34
SPEAKER_01: People are calling me and texting me and emailing me and wanting to, and I love all of it.
48:40
SPEAKER_01: I love I love it.
48:41
SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, ministry is like, hey Wesley, can you help us this?
48:44
SPEAKER_01: And what we can launch this and this and this, and I love all of it.
48:48
SPEAKER_01: But I'm a human and I have a cap.
48:53
SPEAKER_01: And in order to fuel growth, healthy growth, you need more pastoral ministry leaders on a staff.
49:04
SPEAKER_01: Now we're all ministry-esque people, but to have some more ministry staffing for youth, for college, for adults, this would allow us to better reach and pastor the next generation of Jesus followers and provide some support for me as we build a ministry team to pastor Bayside Davis.
49:23
SPEAKER_01: Now, you don't want me to do what I did in Eugene, Oregon, where I started a church and I basically did all the pastoring until we hit about a thousand.
49:36
SPEAKER_01: And I almost died.
49:37
SPEAKER_01: Literally, like burnt out to the millionth degree.
49:41
SPEAKER_01: All kinds of physical problems, health problems.
49:44
SPEAKER_01: You don't want that.
49:46
SPEAKER_01: Maybe you do want that, and you'd be like, well, we get somebody else, Wesley, better than you.
49:49
SPEAKER_01: But that could be your prayer, but but maybe you don't want that.
49:55
SPEAKER_01: This would be not just as a support for me, but just trust me, from doing this, this would be an opportunity for our church to grow exponentially and to grow healthily.
50:10
SPEAKER_01: And I think that's a really, really important thing for our future and our immediate future.
50:16
SPEAKER_01: Third, this is an this is an aspect that I've really thought and prayed a lot about and talked to our team about that I think is an incredible evangelism opportunity.
50:28
SPEAKER_01: If we secure a permanent home in the heart of our city, to launch a downtown coffee shop inside of our new church home.
50:37
SPEAKER_01: This would establish a relationship with the people of our city.
50:41
SPEAKER_01: Not necessarily people that go to church, but it would serve as a natural front door for the community, for college students, a place for connections, study, conversations, everyday ministry.
50:53
SPEAKER_01: This space would offer a relational way to build genuine relationships with the people of our city, invite them into community, and create connections that lead people to Jesus.
51:04
SPEAKER_01: Now, if you create good coffee and a beautiful space that draws people in, and that is open to the community, downtown, next to all the other restaurants and coffee shops, you could have hundreds of people entering and exiting a church building that they just think is a cool coffee shop space every week.
51:29
SPEAKER_01: And this, you got to think incarnationally, how do we reach people?
51:35
SPEAKER_01: Now, we reach people by inviting them to church, but what about the people that aren't wanting to necessarily step foot in the church, but their friend invites them to coffee and they realize it's a church?
51:45
SPEAKER_01: Guarantee you that that person who becomes comfortable in a coffee shop, the first time they want to go to church, they'll go to church there because they're familiar with it.
51:56
SPEAKER_01: And they've met me, hey, I'm Wesley, and they met Kelly, hey, I'm Kelly, and I work at Bayside Davis, and this is our coffee shop, and blah, blah, blah.
52:06
SPEAKER_01: It would just be such an easy outreach, evangelistic opportunity in the heart of our city.
52:15
SPEAKER_01: It could be something incredible.
52:18
SPEAKER_01: You gotta think about how do we contextualize these teachings and visions in our current cultural moment to reach people where they're at.
52:30
SPEAKER_01: And this, I believe, is a very incredible strategic, relational, city-invested way to do something like that.
52:37
SPEAKER_01: And then number four, I don't know if you know, all of you know DCF, but there are some DCFers in here.
52:48
SPEAKER_01: Davis Christian Fellowship is the most influential campus ministry in the city of Davis on the university campus.
53:02
SPEAKER_01: They're doing incredible things.
53:04
SPEAKER_01: And about a year ago, they all decided that a group of them were gonna go down to Southern California with Will and Jen, who have been, I call Will the Pope of the City.
53:17
SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you're thinking about in the last 20-something years who've been the most spiritually influential people in the city, it's those two.
53:25
SPEAKER_01: And they, Will, I mean, he's been doing this a long time.
53:31
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't have to start again.
53:34
SPEAKER_01: He is taking a team to start again so that they can reach UC campuses in Southern California.
53:41
SPEAKER_01: And I've been like stirring in my heart like we're the home church to a lot of the people that are gonna go down there.
53:51
SPEAKER_01: Boaz who's in the back.
53:55
SPEAKER_01: Boaz, they like you.
53:59
SPEAKER_01: He's single too.
54:02
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, this guy's a now, don't Boaz.
54:05
SPEAKER_01: I hope that didn't embarrass you.
54:07
SPEAKER_01: This guy's amazing.
54:10
SPEAKER_01: He loves the Lord, he's called to ministry.
54:14
SPEAKER_01: And maybe you find a wife here, maybe you don't.
54:18
SPEAKER_01: He's amazing.
54:20
SPEAKER_01: So they're taking a team down, and they're going from campus to campus in Southern California and planting DCF's university fellowships on campuses in Southern California.
54:36
SPEAKER_01: And these leaders have become integral parts of our church family.
54:41
SPEAKER_01: And I just want to say, I deeply believe in what they're doing.
54:46
SPEAKER_01: I would love to send them down there and also help maybe some of the leaders who are coming in to take the leadership of DCF here locally.
54:55
SPEAKER_01: I would love to help them transition into the leaders financially and help send the Southern California team with money that we raised because we believe they're going to reach the future leaders in the world for Jesus on university campuses.
55:14
SPEAKER_01: That's something that we should be behind.
55:16
SPEAKER_01: I feel so deeply about that, and I hope you guys do as well.
55:21
SPEAKER_01: And I just want to say I love this ministry, I love every leader in this ministry, I love every person who's a part of this ministry, and I so believe in you, and I would love for our church to send you off with a huge blessing to go reach Southern California universities for Christ, and everyone said.
55:45
SPEAKER_01: So, real quick, this is our compassion vision, and this is our local church vision.
55:54
SPEAKER_01: And our goal in this 30-year vision compassion campaign, next week, bring this book.
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SPEAKER_01: The big book, bring this next week.
56:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh it has it has a devotion for every day during this campaign, and then you can sign up for a video devotion called Refuel by texting Refuel to 56316 that goes along with the devotion in this book.
56:20
SPEAKER_01: And then it has a place to take sermon notes.
56:23
SPEAKER_01: This is kind of the global vision.
56:25
SPEAKER_01: Bring it back next week because we're gonna go through some of this.
56:27
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna have another message, and then I'm gonna sit on a stool and go through some of this.
56:32
SPEAKER_01: But our goal across Bayside, now, if we have 20,000 people on a Sunday, you can 4x that of how many people go to Bayside.
56:42
SPEAKER_01: Uh they say in our current culture, not you guys, I'm proud of you guys.
56:46
SPEAKER_01: You come to church very consistently, but in our current culture, people come to church once at most twice a month, not you guys.
56:54
SPEAKER_01: We should go to church every weekend.
56:56
SPEAKER_01: And obviously, we have weekends where we're sick or we're on vacation or whatever.
57:00
SPEAKER_01: But so Bayside has 50 to 90,000 people who call Bayside their home.
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SPEAKER_01: Our heart would be that if you're part of Bayside, that 100% of us participate in what God can do through these initiatives.
57:20
SPEAKER_01: That there would be 100% participation.
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SPEAKER_01: At Davis, at Davis, our base baseline goal would be 300,000.
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SPEAKER_01: Our challenge goal would be 600,000.
57:34
SPEAKER_01: And our faith goal, which would then allow us to do every part of number one, two, three, and four, would be one million dollars.
57:41
SPEAKER_01: And honestly, that's not a huge number.
57:43
SPEAKER_01: You might look at that.
57:44
SPEAKER_01: All the other campuses have much larger numbers.
57:48
SPEAKER_01: And to get into a permanent facility and to develop some strategic ministry staffing and launch a downtown coffee shop, one million dollars is actually doing it on very little money in comparison to most.
58:04
SPEAKER_01: Ask Will.
58:04
SPEAKER_01: He's built two buildings and he's done all of this.
58:07
SPEAKER_01: And I just think we should pray.
58:10
SPEAKER_01: We here is my commitment to you.
58:13
SPEAKER_01: None of this that we talk about, I will never manipulate you to give.
58:25
SPEAKER_01: I am gonna just challenge you to pray and seek the Lord.
58:28
SPEAKER_01: This should be something that God does in our hearts collectively.
58:33
SPEAKER_01: A burdeny place, a calling, an opportunity for the kingdom of God to advance in our city and our generation and see a movement of God.
58:44
SPEAKER_01: So all we're gonna do is challenge our church to 100% of us participate.
58:49
SPEAKER_01: Whatever it is that God puts on your heart to participate in this, we're not asking you to participate right now.
58:57
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna we're gonna talk about that as the weeks go on.
59:00
SPEAKER_01: We're just asking you to start praying every day.
59:04
SPEAKER_01: Lord, what do you want me to do to fulfill this mission and calling?
59:10
SPEAKER_01: What part do you want me to invest so that we can see this city, not known as like a Christian paradise, to become a place where Jesus is known, loved, and followed in our generation.
59:26
SPEAKER_01: And beyond that, what can we do to put people first around the world and change the world?
59:34
SPEAKER_01: We're saying this is our first commitment.
59:37
SPEAKER_01: We are a compassion first church.
59:39
SPEAKER_01: Most churches that do vision campaigns, it's as Ray says, that the money does not go outside of them.
59:48
SPEAKER_01: We want the money to go to compassion projects all over the world.
59:53
SPEAKER_01: We want to change the world.
59:55
SPEAKER_01: We have a vision from God, not just for our local churches, not just for our region, not just for our state, not just for our nation.
1:00:03
SPEAKER_01: We have a vision from God for the world, and we believe that through our church, we can change the world in this moment of time.
1:00:14
SPEAKER_01: And so all I'm gonna ask you to do, and I know I've been up here a long time, but this is once in a this is once in a generation opportunity.
1:00:24
SPEAKER_01: All I'm gonna ask you to do is just start praying.
1:00:27
SPEAKER_01: Lord, prompt my heart.
1:00:30
SPEAKER_01: What would you have me to do?
1:00:32
SPEAKER_01: I want to be a part of something that's making a difference.
1:00:34
SPEAKER_01: Where we get to heaven someday, we're gonna see all of these things that happen, cascading effects, domino effects, because in this moment in our history, we said, We are all in, God.
1:00:46
SPEAKER_01: Whatever you put on my heart, I want to invest to change this world for Christ and to change our city for Christ.