Hey, hey, welcome to the church home podcast with Judah Smith. My amazing husband. My name is Chelsea,

and he is about to give you an incredible message. And I know we are going to hear about Jesus and his love for you.

And if there's anything we can do as a church home community, we would love to serve you.

You can come to churchhome.org slash pastor chat, and we would love to have a conversation with you

and just meet you exactly where you are. Enjoy the message. Hey, welcome back to church home. I'm so glad

you have joined us for weekly service. If you didn't join us last week, no worries. We actually

shared a message from my dad from the early 2000s. And now this week, we're going to

share a message from 2023 where I ended up speaking from the exact same passage, Acts 28. And I

remember vividly reading this passage and thinking to myself of that old adage, that old

statement, proceed with caution. So much of our life kind of comes

down to that. And whatever you do, be careful, be cautious, be calculated, look at all of the

science and the statistics and the details. And the truth is, even historically, human history,

the people that have changed the world, changed how we've seen each other, seen our world,

seen technology, inventions, ingenious, all these different things, artists are people

who didn't proceed with caution. They proceeded with courage with a sense that they were

going to do something that never had been done before. And if you need to be infused with some of that

courage and some of that fortitude and strength, this message is for you. And the truth is, as a community,

we were going through a chapter in a season where we needed

courageous living. We needed a vibrant sense that God was asking us and calling us to do something

new as we were pioneering new models and new opportunities and reaching new people with the story

that Jesus loves them and is already

forgiven them. Life is short. Avoiding risk and the pursuit of safety. I'm kind of over it.

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