Mathew Gahm
@growgodsway · 5:00
What kind of church you are looking for will say a lot about what your spiritual walk is going to be.
Everyone comes from the heart that I want to create a ministry, I want to create a church, I want to create a community. Whatever the language is isn't as important, but the intent is I want this to transform the lives of the people, the hearts and the minds of people for Jesus. That's what it starts out as, transforming the hearts and minds of people for Jesus. And I believe that's what everyone, including myself, starts out as
Mathew Gahm
@growgodsway · 5:00
But evangelism is really powerful. When we share our witness, our testimony, do acts of kindness with no strings attached. And then when somebody is part of the church and makes that decision to follow Jesus, we disciple them to apply the true subscription in their lives. And when it comes to the senior pastor or leader of a church, they need to focus and worry about the message God has for his people
Mathew Gahm
@growgodsway · 5:00
People there knew a lot about Jesus, but they didn't really know him. And sin wasn't being corrected in their lives. Rather, it was dismissed as a cliche thing, like, oh, we're all sinners. We had staff members living with someone who is not their spouse. We had abuse happening between relationships. We had all kinds of ungodly things taking place, even within the staff, because it was just dismissed. We were worried more about attracting
Mathew Gahm
@growgodsway · 4:56
So how does this apply to you as church members? So here's some questions I have for you. Are you attending a church that's focused on transformation first, or does it appear that attraction is the main thing? Is it all about the fanciest, coolest, hippiest looking things to make people feel comfortable? If it is transformation, that's first. Do others call out the visible transformation happening in your life, or do you have to tell them how God's transforming you?
When you give it back to the person that gave it back to you and say, I give myself to you, my lord, the fruits are different. They're much better than the things that the devil offers. But people become so enamored with this, dare I say, entertaining aspect of human existence that they completely ignore the transformative part. And what your church should really be doing is drawing people in, transforming them. And then they should be going and spreading the gospel
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
And God brought an individual in my life named Keith Green. And if you're not familiar with him, I would suggest go and studying him, his biography, what he did, he was a very talented musician, but he recognized that everything that he was able to do was simply a gift of the Holy Spirit. It's an incredible story
