How God Changes a City
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
How does a city change? In this message, we intro the book of Ephesians by looking at how God shifted the city of Ephesus.
God changes a city by changing a person
God changes a city by removing idols
God changes a city with the message of His grace
Life Group Discussion:
Have you ever felt darkness in a city you visited?
What are the idols that have your heart?
Where is one place this week you can influence people? Hold each other accountable.
Pray together to seek the welfare of our city and change the world through the power of Jesus.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, in 2011, I made what will forever be one of the best decisions of my life because in 2011, |
| 0:06.0 | I decided to go to Baylor University. There we go. Come on. I just had the best time at Baylor. |
| 0:15.2 | I really did. Four of the best years of my life. Met my wife at Baylor, got connected to Harris Creek |
| 0:19.4 | at Baylor, won a couple of big 12 titles while at |
| 0:22.5 | Baylor and just had the best time there. |
| 0:24.6 | But I'm originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
| 0:26.9 | And in 2011, I was a senior in high school. |
| 0:29.1 | Whenever I would tell people in Minneapolis that I was headed to Baylor, I would hear just about the same thing every single time. |
| 0:36.6 | Because they would all say, |
| 0:38.4 | why in the world would you want to go to Waco? |
| 0:41.4 | You know David Koresh is from Waco, right? |
| 0:44.5 | Like that happened like clockworked. |
| 0:46.0 | I experienced that about 100 times. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm like, yes, I do know that. |
| 0:50.1 | And in that time, Waco wasn't really known |
| 0:51.8 | for a whole lot of good things. |
| 0:54.0 | But in these last 12 years, things have changed. |
| 0:57.6 | Because things have changed from going, why in the world would you ever go to Waco to people |
| 1:01.3 | are moving to Waco from all over the place. |
| 1:03.6 | In fact, last week in Meet and Greet, I met a couple here who's new to Waco and they've just |
| 1:07.4 | moved from one of the most beautiful places in the country. |
| 1:10.3 | I'll let you decide where that might be. And then a couple weeks ago, I also met another couple who was |
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