Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Hey, guys, this is Naim and you've reached the Mosaic Church Podcast. So excited that you're part of our listening community and love for you to be even more connected. So check out our website. There's more content there and there's more opportunities for you get connected in our ministries and events as well. Also, love for you to share this content. If this is blessed to you. I know that God wants to use you to bless other people with it, so share this podcast you will. Lastly, would you consider supporting this ministry? This is made possible by other people's generosity, and I'd love for you to pay it forward. Join us to reclaim the message and the movement of Jesus together. So would you consider giving to this ministry? I know that God is able to do immeasurably more through us when we come together. Thank you so much. God bless you. Enjoy.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: Hey. Hey.
Hello, Mosaic. Glad that you guys are with us. Yes. We are starting a brand new series called Spring Cleaning. We are going to clean up by cleaning out some old beliefs and spiritual practices that maybe we're hanging onto, maybe are a little dusty. Some need to be cleaned up and some need to be cleaned out. Okay. Although I am still reeling after last week. How many of you were here for Easter? Last Sunday, our outdoor service was so great, so fun. We missed those of you that could not make it. I have to tell you, though, something that Pastor Naim said last Sunday has stuck with me all week. And it's not anything holy at all, but it's actually the idea of what we watch on TV says something about who we are as people.
And so I want to tell you what it is that I watch. But unfortunately, I think what it says about me as a person is that I am not quite right.
Because I really like to watch things where, like, it's not ideal situations. Maybe someone, like, vanishes or something worse happens. Anybody with me is anybody else to watch? Like, crime mystery? You know, if there are clues that need to be put together, there's something to figure out. That's the kind of stuff that I like to watch because it makes me feel smart, like I have a big brain, as my daughter tells me. Right? Because if I can't figure it out faster than the people that are on the show, I know I can at least figure it out faster than the people that are in the room with me. Much to my husband's demise, we do watch a lot of these shows. I have learned to keep my thoughts inside my head, so that helps him out. But does anybody else like to watch these kind of shows, right? With a twist. It makes us think. It keeps us smart. One of the biggest and best twists, I think, on shows like this is when there is an unreliable narrator. Do you guys know what this is? The Unreliable Narrator. So when you're watching a show, maybe reading a book, often you're hearing the story through one particular person's perspective, right? Or you're hearing it from, like, their point of view. And so when there's the narrator, you get to the end of the story, and then you realize that somehow their perception has been compromised. And all of a sudden, it changes the entire story. Okay, let me give you an example of this. And that is the movie the Sixth Sense.
Yeah. You guys remember the Sixth Sense? Okay, I am going to spoil it. So I guess if you're like, I've stayed spoiler free for 26 years at Muffum or something. I don't know what to tell you, because I'm gonna tell you how this movie ends. But do you remember the moment that we realized that Bruce Willis was dead? Immediately, I want to go back and watch the story again. Because once you know what's true, once you know what the real story is, it changes the meaning behind every single thing that that character says and does.
The thing with an unreliable narrator is that they often don't know that they're unreliable. They don't know that something has happened to change the story, because they think that the story that they're telling is actually real. And so unreliable narrators are very fun in movies and TV and books, but not so much in real life. And it made me wonder how many of us have possibly become unreliable narrators in the stories that we are telling in our own lives?
Maybe in the way that we are parenting, maybe in the way that you lead or teach or just show up in the world. Maybe in the way that you live your life as a Christian. Is it possible that we didn't mean to? We didn't even realize that it was happening. But something has happened, and we have become unreliable narrators with compromised credibility. And so we are skewing actually the real meaning of the story that we are telling. We are accidentally living our lives with a skewed version of the truth. And I believe that there is one thing in particular that leads us to becoming unreliable narrators, and it is the idea of complacency. Complacency. Now, I wanna define this for you really quickly because I wanna make sure we're all on the same page and complacency is not the same thing as contentment. Okay? Contentment is when you maybe have a want for more. There are things that you want for your life, there's things that you wanna do, but you are at peace with your situation.
So maybe you are single, you're a young adult, you're like, I want to get married, I wanna have a family. But you are at peace in your situation right now because you're trusting that God knows and has a plan for you. Maybe it's something with a career. And you keep looking for that, right? Career. And you're doing all the things and you're applying, but the jobs aren't. The doors are not opening for jobs yet. You're at peace about God's timing, could be a health goal, right? Things that are just moving along slowly, you're at peace. All of these things are good because you are content in your season. You're satisfied with where you are in the story right now. See, complacency is different because complacency says, no, I'm gonna stay here. I'm gonna stay in this place, even though I'm being nudged to move. That's the difference between contentment and complacency. So complacency might look like you're sitting in service.
You hear something, you feel something during worship, you hear something in the message, and the Holy Spirit's like, that's for you.
And your response is like, yeah, nah, I'm good. I think it was for the person next to me, I'm good, I'm good. Actually, maybe you have that same thought pop up over and over and over that you feel like it's time for you to get baptized. It's time to take that step and get baptized. And that thought keeps popping up. Maybe it's tithing. Maybe you keep having that same thought of like, oh, I really need to sit down and figure this out. Maybe it's an event. We're constantly talking about all of the events that we have for young adults and men and women and co EDS and groups, but maybe there's. For some reason you keep feeling pulled to an event so that you can connect to someone else, but your response is always like, I'm good.
I'm good.
See, complacency's biggest lie is that we're good. That we're good enough right now.
Turn to your neighbor and say, I'm good.
I'm good. You can say it. Whether you believe it or not. It's all right. You're just following directions.
The lie of Complacency is that we're good enough, even though deep down we know that that is probably not 100% true. And so today we're gonna look at two different churches. Through letters that were sent to these two churches, these two groups of people who thought that they were good, thought that they were telling the true story of Jesus, only to find out like maybe they weren't. So the first church is in the book of Revelation. And before you freak out, I know Revelation scares people. You're like, I've read everything in the Bible except Revelation. Cause I don't understand it. Listen, if you understand it, it's okay. It's all good. It was written by a guy named John who might have been John the disciple. Might have not been. Might have been a different guy named John who was also a prophet. We honestly don't know. But all the book of Revelation is, is John retelling his Revelations. The things, the dreams, the visions that he feels like God has given him to give to people. And so in one section of Revelation, he's writing letters to seven churches. And we're gonna look at the letter to the Church of Laodicea. In Revelation 3. It says to them, he says, I know all the things that you do. And what he's meaning here is like, I know all your religious tradition. I know all your rituals. I know all your practices. I know all these things that you do. But I also know that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other. But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will. What?
Spit you out of my mouth. It's like when you pick up that coffee that you didn't realize has been sitting there just a little bit too long. And you take the sip and then you just wanna gag. Do you know what I'm talking about? Like, coffee should be hot or it should be cold, and there is no in between. Okay, this is what John is kind of saying to these people. He's like, hey, you look good. You look like you should. But underneath what people can see here, you're kinda gross.
Like, this middle, whatever you're doing is kind of unappetizing. So pick one. Be cold if you're gonna be cold. Be hot if you're gonna be hot. But let's figure this out. Fun fact for you. Cause I like to nerd out when I read the Bible. Is that the church in Laodicea? Actually, this city was one of a couple cities that suffered an earthquake. And what happened was, after the Earthquake kind of came and did some damage. The emperor came to them and said, hey, I wanna help you to rebuild your city. And the people of Laodicea were like, we're good.
We're good.
They're a wealthy city. They prided themselves on their independence. They prided themselves on not needing to be connected to anybody else. So they were like, thanks, but no thanks. We're good.
Meanwhile, underneath the ground, underneath the city, the water system had been broken and the water pipes were filling up with all of this sediment. But because the people had chosen complacency in the state that they were in, by the time they realized that all of their water pipes were clogged with sediment, it was too late.
So the only fix that they could do then was to pipe water in. So they had two. They could pump cold water in from the mountains, or they could pump hot water in from the springs nearby.
But either way, they had to pump this water into the city from the mountains or the hot springs. You wanna guess what temperature the water from both places was by the time it got to Laodicea? Lukewarm. Lukewarm.
Lukewarm. I love when God does this. He is like, hey, I'm gonna talk to you people specifically in your exact situation. These people would have understood what lukewarm meant, because bathing in lukewarm water, drinking lukewarm water, like, we understand we want water to be hot or cold. There are things that it can do for us, but lukewarm water feels ineffective. And that's basically what this letter is saying. They were like, hey, are you going to accept reality now, or are you going to keep being lukewarm people?
Like, are you going to keep pretending to be good? What? When really you are compromised under the surface? And so this letter in Revelation goes on, and he keeps talking to them. Listen, don't be offended that this is sassy. This is not me, okay? This is John. All right? So he goes on and he says, you say, I am rich. I have everything I want. I don't need a thing. But you don't realize that you are wretched and miserable and. And poor and blind and naked.
Like, just imagine the people there. And they're like, but we're good. Like, you're not talking to us. What God wanted them to know through this letter, he wants them to realize that the story they're telling about themselves isn't true, that they think that they're one thing, but they're actually not. They think that they're good and they have it all together. But what's actually happened is that they have become unreliable narrators who have lost touch with reality. They have lost touch with reality. Often, God wants to help us in our present situation. But before we can accept God's help, we have to accept the reality of where we really are. It's really hard to grow and be discipled and to move forward if we are unwilling to accept where we are first.
So could it be that maybe some of you are ignoring the reality of your present situation? Maybe you're ignoring the way that you feel about certain things, the way you think about certain things. Maybe you're ignoring something that you're being called to because it's easier to focus on what people can see than to admit to what maybe is broken or compromised internally.
See, the danger in this is that before we know it, we might end up living out versions of ourselves or versions of our faith that look good but aren't quite real.
We have to make sure we stay in touch with reality and what is actually happening.
So then we go to the second example. We're gonna go to the book of Hebrews for a letter to a different church now. And this is another letter that we don't actually know who wrote it. A lot of people say that it was Paul, but it could have very likely been one of his coworkers. It could have been Barnabas or Apollo or one of the people that was helping to kind of plant churches with him. The other funny thing about the letter to Hebrews is that we also don't know the audience. We don't know who this one was written to. Now, it's clear if you read the whole book, the whole letter, that it's people. It's a people group that the author knows well. And he also has this belief and this understanding that they know the Old Testament scriptures, they know the Torah, because he just kind of throws stuff out there without really explaining. There's an assumption that they already know what's going on. So our guess is that this is a group of Jewish Christians that the author is encouraging to remain faithful to Jesus while they are going under persecution. So. So this is where they're at. Jewish Christians facing legitimate persecution for their faith, trying to be encouraged and reminded of what's real and who Jesus is and how God is working in their lives. And so in the middle of the letter, the author's like, actually, you know what? There's so much more I wanna say to you about this. There is so much more that we would like to say, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and you don't seem to listen.
You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again about the basic things about God's word.
Again. I didn't write this.
I'm just telling you what it says again. We've got a letter from another person to another church group, another group of Christians that's like, hey, hey, hey, you think you're good? Let me help you to understand that maybe you're actually not. Not in a shaming way, but let's like, wake up to reality situation. So it goes on.
It says, you are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk, is still an infant, and doesn't know how to do what is what right.
Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training, have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
I feel like the writer of Hebrews. I could just see him, like, throwing his scroll and being like, ugh, give me a kid's Bible for these people. Like, we gotta start back at the beginning all over again.
But he's saying. He's like, hey, I understand. And you guys should understand that, like, when babies disobey, it's cause they haven't learned it yet. They haven't learned they have an excuse. But these seasoned believers, he's talking to people who had grown up in their faith. He's like, come on, guys. You have known God and the teachings of Jesus for so long that you should be up here helping me. You should be teaching people, you should be leading. You should be helping others to grow in their faith. But instead, it seems like you're regressing. And you're not just stuck, you're not just good, you're actually going backwards.
See, this is the type of complacency that I unfortunately can relate to. I have grown up a church girl. Anytime the church was open, I was like, let's go. I loved youth group. I loved choir. I loved church. I loved all of it. I've always loved God. I've always loved Jesus. I'm very lucky that I've never had to experience a couple rough. We've had some rough patches, but I've never actually walked away, I can tell you that much. So I had so many years where I loved waking up before my family, when my house was still quiet, go downstairs with my coffee and read the Bible. Especially once I really learned what it meant to kind of lean in to the holy Spirit, I remember so many moments sitting there, opening Scripture and just feeling like things were, like, jumping off the page, and I was having these revelations and finding meaning in Scripture and things that I'd never seen before.
Those times alone in Scripture were really, really pivotal for me when it came to unlearning some things so that I could clean out some of my old beliefs and practices.
But then I hit a season where I was still doing all of the right things, and still it looked good from the outside, but I found that I was just going through the motions. And I was only reading Scripture when I was making content for social media for other people, or when I was studying to prepare for a message, and I wasn't really sitting with it myself.
There were times that, you know, I was preaching the truth of Jesus, which I still believed in my head. But maybe that Sunday or a couple Sundays, I had lost the passion for it in my heart, if I'm being honest. It was still real. It was still true. But it wasn't exactly what God intended. I didn't realize that over time. Slowly, my joy, my amazement with the Scripture and who God is and what he was doing, even my clarity in reading and understanding scripture just kind of faded, and it just kind of dulled out. I didn't doubt my belief, I didn't doubt my salvation, but my personal spirituality had just kind of grown dull.
And so I tell you that to say that if you're feeling any kind of way about this message, if you feel like the Holy Spirit spotlight is just on you and you're convicted and you're like, ouch, this hurts a little bit.
I'm with you. I get it. I have been there. And I think probably most of us in this room have been there as well. But it's also important for us to talk about, because complacency happens slowly and it happens quietly. And if we don't acknowledge what's happening, then we become complacent. And here's the big problem with complacency. When we're not paying attention, what happens is that complacency rewrites what's real. It dulls what's right, and it compromises our credibility.
So we're going to break these down real quick. The first one is that complacency rewrites what's real. See, when complacency turns us into an unreliable narrator, because we lose touch with reality, we tell a story that is close to the truth, but not quite real. Okay, I'm gonna give you another TV show. Example. Because I don't only like when bad things happen to people. I also like to watch game shows. So we're gonna play a game. You guys wanna play a game with me today? I wish I had, like, theme music and note cards in one of those long microphones. All right, we're gonna play a game today called Jesus or Christian?
That was a nervous laugh over here. He didn't know I was gonna do this part. Okay, so here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna read you something that I saw this week on social media, and you are gonna tell me if it was said by Jesus or a Christian. This is gonna be fun. Don't worry. Don't stress about it. It'll be great. Okay, first one. Ready? America is God's chosen nation. Jesus or Christian?
You got it. See, it sounds good, right? It sounds good because as Christians, we all want to be the people of God. We are the people of God. But what's real is, is that America's not actually in the Bible.
I know. Shocking. What Jesus actually said was, my kingdom is not of this world. That's in John, if you wanna look it up later. Because God's kingdom is not bound by borders. That's what's really real. All right, here's the next one. God uses flawed people, so we have to accept their brokenness. You know, like King David. Jesus or Christian?
Christian. Christian. See, again, it sounds good. It sounds good because what's true is that we don't have to be perfect to partner with God. But what's really real is that God also calls people to repentance and to integrity and to truth telling and to reflect his character. What Jesus actually said in Matthew is, you will recognize them by their fruit. So what that means for us is that we shouldn't overlook pride, cruelty, unrepentant behavior from anyone, even if they're promising us power or protection.
All right, you wanna do one more? You guys good at this game? All right, last one. Jesus or Christian? Christianity is being persecuted and we have to fight back.
Christian. You got it. Good job. Okay. In the early church, like I told you, for this people, group persecution was happening. People were dying because they were choosing to live and follow the way of Jesus. Persecution is still happening today in other places. But most of the claims that we hear in America about persecution are not actual religious persecution. And what happens is when we use dramatic language, it leads to division within Christianity and actually then weakens our narrative and it weakens us as a body of believers. See, the Truth is that Jesus didn't say that we were supposed to just justify things, fear, defensiveness, cruelty, and violence, but that what we were supposed to do is to root ourselves in humility, not overcoming evil with evil, but overcoming evil with good. Do you see why it matters that we don't rewrite what's real?
Okay, you guys won. Good job. You can all pick up your new car, your brand new car in the parking lot on the way out.
Thank you so much for playing. Also, shouldn't that game have been harder?
Like, shouldn't that game have been harder? If we as Christians who are meant to reflect Jesus lived and said in a way that he lived and the way he taught, like, shouldn't our words be more the same?
Our words should be more the same. And so this is a really important question for us to ask ourselves as we are telling our version of God's story. Does it just sound Christian or is it actually Christlike?
Does it just sound Christian or is it actually Christlike? The second thing that complacency does, after it rewrites what's real, is it will also dull what's right. Like the writer of Hebrews said, the side effect of complacency is weakened discernment, not knowing right from wrong, which means that we don't recognize it, we don't name it, and we don't call it out when we see it. And I am someone who can get very, very overwhelmed when I look around and see all of the evil in the world. It is so much easier to detach and be like, this does not concern me. This is not my responsibility. It's easier to stay naive and to pretend that I don't know what's going on, to stay removed so that I don't have to bear the weight of doing something to make it better. Listen, I know detachment so well that I have accidentally made a catchphrase for it, which I have was told lately that I say this a lot in meetings.
And it is this phrase, I can't be bothered. I can't be bothered. Apparently, this is something that I say a lot. And I paid attention this week and I say this phrase when people let me down and I don't wanna feel it. I'm like, I can't be bothered. I can't be bothered to care. I say this phrase when I am already overwhelmed by the amount of people who need something from me, and then something else pops up and someone needs me and I just can't handle it. And so I'm just like, I Can't be bothered. I can't be bothered. But see, actually what's at the heart of that is apathy. It's choosing to go ahead and look away from something because it's easier. And I think many of us in the world right now are looking around. A lot of people are looking around and just saying, I can't be bothered. But when we turn away from things that are wrong, then we become complicit in those wrong things. See, complicity is an association of wrongdoing. That's all it is. It's an association. So maybe we didn't do the wrong thing, but if we didn't stop the wrong thing from happening either, and so we become complicit, I think if we really paid attention to right and wrong, if we didn't rewrite the real story, then we would recognize it when people are mistreated and we would call it out when systems failed to do what they are created to do. I think we would not only know the difference between right and wrong, but we would care about helping to right those wrongs.
Instead of being complicit, we would be compelled to act.
When we allow our complacency to rewrite what's real, it dulls what's right. And then it also compromises our credibility as reliable narrators of the gospel. See, when we say that we believe in God's love and grace and mercy and forgiveness and all of these things, but then we don't live our lives in a way that shows that we become unreliable narrators, not just in our own lives, but in the story of who God is. And it makes the people around us, it makes the whole world that's watching us and our story wonder if they can believe that any of the things that we claim Jesus life shows us who God is. And as Christians, as believers, our lives are meant to do the exact same thing. Lived in his power within us, we get to tell the story of who God is.
Now, luckily, the writer of Hebrews goes on a little bit, and so he's gonna give us some to dos, some practicals, right, of how we can actually make sure that we are not living lives as unreliable narrators. So in Hebrews 6 he says, so let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become, what is this word?
Mature in our understanding. Surely we don't need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. You don't need further instruction about baptisms the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. And so God willing, we will move where forward to further understanding.
Now, really quickly, I want to remind you that he is talking to a people of Christians, a people group who have known God and have known faith and grown up in faith their whole entire lives.
So if you are newer to the faith and you're like, I actually need some instruction on baptism, that is okay. And that does not mean that you are in the wrong place or that your faith is weak or not good enough. Okay? I wanna make sure I say that very, very clearly. If you are at a place where you're like, I do need basics and I do need fundamentals. We would actually love to help you. We've got resources, we've got all kinds of things. We would love to help teach you and let you kind of fill you in on what some of these things are. Remember in this instance, he's talking to people who have known this for a long time.
We all have to keep moving forward. We have to become mature, to move forward so that we can grow spiritually and we have to grow up so that we don't let complacency take us back.
So what does that look like? It can look like different things for different people. The good news is, is that it's not about striving to do more. It's actually about surrendering our narrative to God's reality. And so maybe for you, what that looks like is just opening your Bible. Not to research, not to proof text someone in the comments, okay, but just opening your Bible to listen to, to ask questions, to ask the Holy Spirit what it is that God wants to reveal to you, maybe you need to open your Bible and open your mind to new interpretations. Because maybe if you thought you understood all of the stories, but you are open to the Holy Spirit showing you new things, God might reveal something that you've never thought of before.
I know for me, it was actually my lifelong faith that accidentally caused me to rely on my own self righteousness instead of being willing to have my narrative rewritten so that I could sound more like Jesus instead of just like the Christian that I was raised to be, with all of the right answers and all of the right catchphrases.
Maybe for some of you, your step forward is to take the Holy Spirit seriously and that can mean different things for different people. Maybe it's allowing yourselves to feel and to be bothered by what's actually happening in your story or in the story of the world. I think God puts different burdens on different people's hearts for a reason. And I need you to know that you can trust Holy Spirit within you. So whatever that thing is, even if no one else around you gets it or understands it, doesn't mean that you're wrong or silly for caring about it.
Maybe for you, taking your faith to the next level means that you want to get baptized. This is a spiritual practice that. Spoiler alert. We're gonna clean up, but actually hold onto this is not one that we're going to get rid of. Because baptism is a really powerful moment where you will surrender your unreliable narrative and start living in the reality of God's story. And at the end of this series, we're actually having a baptism Sunday. And so we would love to talk to you about that and what it looks like and what it means, if that's a step that you feel like it's time for you to take.
And then maybe for some of you, what you need to surrender is your comfort. Maybe it's choosing to do what is right, regardless of how it will affect your relationships or what other people will think. I think for some of you, maybe it means in the room, you guys are here, and that's good. I know you've got friends, you've got some first timers, some visitors. Also, for people that are watching or listening this back later, I think that this could be your sign that it's time to go back to church.
And I know that is a very dangerous thing to say in the Christian landscape right now because there are a lot of people who have left the church for very good reason. And I understand that church hurt. And I believe the stories of the people who say that they have been victimized or hurt or have experienced things within a church institution that should have never happened. So I am not calling anyone to go back to a person or a place where damage was done. But I also wonder that if that was you, if you were accidentally misled by.
Misled by an unreliable narrator who was telling their own version of Christianity, we need to make sure that we are not going into unsafe places. But that doesn't mean that we're not called out of our comfort zone to be uncomfortable.
You know, remember, like we learned in our reality show here, Jesus said, you will know them by their fruit. That is a real thing that Jesus said. So we can trust that. But just because there was church hurt done by someone doesn't mean that your story with God or with the church even has to be over that break or that Hurt might not ever heal fully until you are brave enough to go back and try again.
I think that something about wanting to know God and working to right the wrongs, to try again in a community where people are telling God's real story can only be done in a church community like this one, where people are showing up and saying what's real and fighting for the credibility of Christianity through the humble model of Jesus.
So maybe for someone that's watching or listening, this is your sign to try again.
I know that all of you are here, whether you're in person watching, because at some point you heard this story of Jesus and you were intrigued. Maybe you were even like, I actually want to be part of this. I want to know more about this God and this Jesus. But at some point, maybe it just kind of dulled.
We're about to sing one more song and enter into what we call our response time. And I actually want to encourage you in these next couple of minutes to take a moment and to go back to the beginning of your story with Jesus.
What was it that caught your attention then?
What was the wrong that having Jesus in your life made right again? What was the truth that set you free? Or the thing about the heart of God that actually captured your heart? Because whatever was true then is still true now. And God is just as available to you now as he was back then at the beginning of your story.
So that is something that you can sit with, you can just kind of think on your own as I pray for you. Or if at some point you want to go over to the cross, we've got post its. If you want to even write down, take the, post it with you if you want. Maybe stick it on your bathroom mirror. Stick it somewhere else that you're going to see it this week. Just that reminder of the moment of when your story with Jesus started and what it was that made you want to be involved to begin with. Let me pray for us. God, I thank you so much for who you are. Lord, we thank you that whether we feel stuck, God, whether we feel like our story has ended and the book has closed, God, we thank you that you are still present and you are still moving and you are still working.
God, I pray for tender hearts, Lord, that if there was challenge, if there was conviction, God, that. That you would shut out any lie of the enemy that tries to come in with shame. Because, God, that is not your heart and that is not what you're about. But God, would you show us ways that maybe we've relied on ourselves, God, maybe we've relied on just being in relationship with you. Maybe we've relied on things, things like going to church every now and then, God, or calling ourselves a Christian. Lord, would you show us the ways that we have just kind of become dull in our spirituality and Lord, show us the next step so that we can continue to mature God in our faith. So that as we tell the world around us who you are, God, that not only would we say the right things and look the part, God, that we would tell the story that's real. So that people in this world who are desperately looking for you, God, would know that they could trust our narrative because of who you are. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thanks for listening to this message from Mosaic church in Charlotte, North Carolina. For more audio and video content, visit us at MosaicChurch TV.
