UNTAMED JESUS
Jesus didn’t come to conform to culture but to transform it. He wasn’t about being nice, neat and sweet, but was all about changing hearts, minds, and lives. In this series we’ll examine how the life of Untamed Jesus is still shaking things up.
Before Jesus went to the cross, His last prayer shed light on one of the most important things on his heart: unity in His Church. In week 1 of "Untamed Jesus" Pastor Samson delivers a vivid and practical word on “Perfect Unity.”
Stepping into your calling means you have to be willing to step out of your comfort zone. As followers of Jesus, our calling is to confront evil and to comfort the broken. Jesus really is the Good News that changes everything. He’s worth leaving our comfort for, and he empowers us to live out our calling and win the lost at all costs.
God calls us to live a life of generosity. Nothing we give to God is ever wasted, and we will never be able to out give Him. We give our time, money, and talents as an act of worship because we love Him and want to obey Him.
As a church, we are known for what we are for. We are for Jesus and we are for people knowing and growing in Him. God has called us to love people when they least expect it and/or least deserve it. Without love it doesn’t matter what we say, know, believe, or give. Everything is insignificant without love.
You invest in what you value. Here at NORTH, we are committed to investing our best in the next generation because we value them. We want to raise up a generation of people with a Biblical worldview, who will not bow to culture or sin or the world. We value the Gospel, and we believe that the most important message deserves the most excellent presentation. In every area of our church and our lives, we commit to presenting Jesus with excellence so that the people around us will come to see and know Him more clearly.
Pastor Clint challenges us through a powerful word on the importance of community within the body of Christ. Jesus modeled the priority of coming together all throughout the Scriptures and we must follow His example.
We cannot let our past failures or our present fears cause us to give up on what God is calling us to do. Instead, we need to trust what God has said to us, remember what he has done for us, and keep doing our part by leaning into his presence. We move in faith, because we trust God to do immeasurably more than we could ask or imagine.
Following Jesus means we go and do what He did. We follow the example He set. Jesus showed no partiality or favoritism or discrimination. He valued diversity, so we value diversity. We are called to be people who lead the way in reconciliation and transformative change. We are called to be people who bring healing and strive for unity.
We commit to being faithful with the small things, because being faithful with the small things allows us to be entrusted with bigger things. Being faithful means believing when you don’t see it, obeying when you don’t understand it, and persisting when you don’t feel it. Little by little, as we believe, obey, and persist, we become people who are marked by faithfulness.