Ekklesia, Part 2: Opening Day // Andy Stanley
North Point Community Church
North Point Community Church
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🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
When the church first began, a natural question surfaced right away: What shall we do? The answer had to do more with understanding who your faith was in more than what needed to be done.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, |
| 0:06.0 | everybody it's Andy. Welcome or welcome back to the North Point Community Church podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, at the end of this episode, please take a moment to subscribe to our YouTube channel |
| 0:15.7 | and download our free North Point app where you can access all of our recent message |
| 0:19.8 | content and actually the app is the easiest way to share all this content with a friend and it's the easiest way to keep up with everything going on around here at North Point. |
| 0:27.0 | But most importantly, I hope the following presentation inspires you to take your next step in your faith journey. |
| 0:35.0 | Enjoy. |
| 0:40.0 | So here's something that more and more Americans are turning to for past time and |
| 0:46.9 | turning to for entertainment predicting outcomes for money. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah gambling it's just a different way of saying gambling right, but I just felt like that's such a harsh term to open a sermon with so |
| 1:00.1 | we're just gonna go with predict outcomes for money. |
| 1:03.2 | In fact, just real quick confession, |
| 1:05.0 | how many of you predicted outcomes for money |
| 1:07.0 | on the Super Bowl? |
| 1:08.4 | Just kidding. |
| 1:08.9 | No, no, don't raise your hand, just kidding. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah, we shouldn't confess sin this early in this |
| 1:12.8 | term anyway and I'm not saying to sin but for most people it's just kind of a you |
| 1:17.0 | know it's just a harmless past time but for others it is a dangerous pathway |
| 1:20.9 | and of course the problem is you don't know if it's a |
| 1:23.3 | dangerous pathway for you until you start so for many people maybe it's why it's to |
| 1:27.4 | never begin to begin with but my reason for bringing it up is this. |
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