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North Point Community Church

Deeper Wider, Part 5: Just Because // Andy Stanley

North Point Community Church

North Point Community Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Before inviting Peter to follow him, Jesus asked Peter to “put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” After a night of fishing with no success and despite his reservations, Peter agreed: “But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” At some point, every Jesus follower will face their own “because you say so” moment. Like Peter, we won’t know what hangs in the balance or our decision. It’s better to find out than miss out.

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0:24.6

So I want to welcome all of you from all of our Atlanta area churches. Those of you are watching from all over the country and all over the world, more and more different time zones. I heard from a friend of mine this morning in the UK who watched the 9 o'clock service and said, go, Andy, go. So excited about what's happening here because of the impact you're having there. And if again, if it's your first time joining us online and it's been a long time or maybe your first time ever or your first time in the building, this is the perfect Sunday and you walked in and it's a little bit different than we normally do things, but we're so excited about what's happening.

0:27.9

And you're, again, if you're in the building or one of our churches with us today, you're

0:31.8

surrounded by people who have a story to tell and the story they have to tell is how their lives, when their lives

0:37.8

begin to intersect with Jesus in a practical way, not just they've learned something in Sunday

0:41.6

school growing up and believes a bunch of stuff. But when they began to literally follow Jesus,

0:45.5

it impacted their life in such a way that they have a story to tell that Jesus in some good

0:50.1

ways upended and changed their life. Certainly the case for me. And so this initiative is all

0:55.6

about multiplying their stories all over our city and all over our nation and literally almost

1:02.2

in every single place in the world. It's not a fundraiser. It's not a capital campaign. It is a

1:08.0

generosity initiative because when followers of Jesus decide to follow

1:12.6

Jesus with their money, it is absolutely extraordinary what happens in any city, in any nation,

1:18.6

and all over the world. In fact, if you are a religious person at all and have ever intersected

1:23.6

with Christianity, it's because somebody was generous in a generation that came along before you

1:28.6

that created a church or created that school or created that Bible study or created that curriculum or

1:33.5

created that book. So we're just going to be more and more and more a part of what God is doing

1:38.1

all over the world, what he began 2,000 years ago. When Jesus entered the world became one of us,

1:43.4

died for our sin and rose from

1:45.2

the dead, and his resurrection ignited a spark that has burned all the way around the world. And again,

1:51.1

we're just trying to be as big a part of that as we can possibly be. And so, as you just heard,

1:56.1

a couple of weeks ago, we did an event on time change Sunday. It was the worst possible Sunday possible,

2:01.0

but we didn't care. We did it anyway. We made it hard on purpose. And a little over a thousand

2:04.7

people from all over Atlanta area churches came here on Sunday night after they'd already

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