Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. If you look at the current state of the church in America,

on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate our witness to the rest of the world?

In this week's teaching, Francis Chan confronts the very things that do damage to the church

and reminds us that we can embody the

can embody the purity and love that God desires

through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Hey, I want to follow up on a few things from last week before I get into the passage

because we covered a lot of things and afterwards I thought okay I want to make

sure we understand this.

Like, like last week it was so great how we ended service, just praying for our house church

pastors and leaders.

I hope that that wasn't just like, oh that was cute, that was a great way

to end the service, but that it becomes a pattern of life. What I'm praying is that we become people who value prayer and

actually believe in our prayers more than our opinions. You know we live in a time where everyone wants to talk and give their opinions and go up to

leaders and say, this is the way you should do it, this is the way you should do it.

But for you to actually believe that when I pray I actually am talking to God Almighty who

says that the King's heart is like channels of water and I turn it where I please. And the power, I mean a church

will just absolutely implode if the people are not praying for the leaders and believing in their prayers and

actually going this will do more than me trying to convince them of something.

I'm going to ask God to change their hearts and to reveal to them anything in their lives that's off in his life.

Because we as leaders, we want that. Like I don't know where I'm off and I just can't trust everyone's opinion because everyone

will tell me something that's off.

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