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Into God's word.

Every one of us, I was meeting with the person after the first service

and they said, my co-worker, they said this about Christianity. As long as you're a good person,

you're a Christian. Many people, when they think of Christianity, they think it's all about good

behavior. I don't have to go to church. As long as I'm a good person, I'm a Christian. Whether, what I believe, it doesn't matter at the end of the day, as long as you're a good, good person. That is not what is what it means to be a Christian. Amen. Maybe it's what it means to be an American, maybe what it means to be a religious person, but to be a Christian is something different. Two months ago, I remember I was driving to Vanacci, took some time off to be with God. And as I'm driving there, I'm crying out deep in my heart and I'm praying in my car in my car. And I'm saying, Lord, I want to be closer to you. God, I just want to be closer to you. I'm taking next three nights and I'm closing everything off. I just

want to be closer to you. And I felt like I heard God speak back to me. And he said, you can't get

closer to me than you are already because you are already in me. You can only get deeper. You can

get rooted and grounded in me. But he says, you're trying to get to

a place you're already in. He says, I want you to live out of this place. Don't get into this

place. And that's what I want to talk about today. I believe what I'm going to share with you,

if you listen with your heart, it can forever change how you view your relationship with God. And I believe it's more

gospel-centric and scriptural than whatever the ideas we grew up with. For example, the Bible mentions

word Christian three times. But the word in Christ is mentioned over 70 times. In fact, if you were to use the

Bible to define what it means to be a Christian, it would not be Christian. In fact, the word

Christian, twice out of three times it was mentioned, it was given to us by the secular world.

The word Christian is not God's word for you. God's statement and definition of you is in Christ. Not Christ like, first in

Christ. And when you are in Christ, you spend time with Christ so you can be like Christ.

It's not trying to be like Jesus, be with Jesus so I can one day get into Jesus.

It's being in Jesus so that I can be with Jesus to be like Jesus. This is not mental gymnastics. This is not a play of words.

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