One Quick Thought

The Church That Changes the World

Embark on a captivating video podcast series that will teach you to build a church that follows in Jesus’s life-changing footsteps.

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“His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

— Ephesians 3:10-11 NIV

The church in the New Testament was bold and heroic; they changed their world in just three decades.

Every Christian should believe that we can do the same. This series will inspire us to radically change the way we think about church so that we see the church the way God does. Church is not just about getting together; it’s about building a powerful community of people whose simple decision to live like Jesus did brings lasting change to the world around them.

You and I can each be part of this if we choose to believe in and build the church that changes the world.

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Watch every episode on either YouTube or Spotify, or listen to them on your favorite podcast app. To enhance your experience, we have provided companion posts below that contain the scriptures and detailed notes for you to follow along with while engaging with the series.

  • For our purposes, “Destiny” is the ultimate goal of your life, while “Purpose” is the path you will take and things you will do to get there.

  • What ways can you see God has been gracious in your life? What should we do with God’s grace?

  • “Deep Awareness” is a spiritual sensitivity to God and his Word that awakens our conscience, and stirs up the transformative power of the Holy Spirit for change. This awareness keeps us from slipping back into old patterns of life or attitudes of mind.

  • Change is only possible if we embrace “Deep Spirituality,” and relying on God watch the miraculous transformation only he can work in our lives.

  • “Deep Transparency” is a spiritual state of security with God, where we overcome our fear of being emotionally honest with him and people.

  • We must recognize, reject, and conquer our easy inclination toward ‘religious humanism’ if we are going to experience “Deep Change.” If we do not, then like the Pharisees we will become opponents of “Deep Change.”

  • Conquer is a word descriptive of but rarely used to define Jesus. It means “to defeat an enemy, or take control or possession of a foreign land.” In this sense, Jesus comes as the light to conquer a world filled with darkness.

  • How different might you or your church be if courage was taught, encouraged, and expected from everyone in every area of their lives?

  • Redefining our view of Jesus should include not only identifying compassion in his life, but exhibiting compassion in our own.

  • Jesus's confidence was in God, so when people were fickle he remained faithful, which is why I think so many people found him attractive. We must read the scriptures with greater intensity to learn this confidence, so we continue to keep the dream of Jesus alive and build his kingdom, regardless of whether we are many or few, important or irrelevant, succeeding or failing, being criticized or praised.

  • When an individual can “hold the attention of someone by being extremely interesting, exciting, charming, or attractive,” then that person is captivating. This brings us to a question. How captivating was Jesus?

  • Jesus was cagey and colorful all the time. We seriously need to evaluate how we see Jesus!