Life is Better in Community
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
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🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This weekend marks a historic moment as Saddleback launches a new Small Groups system designed to make finding connection simple and life-giving. Pastor Stacie Wood teaches us that God created us to live in community, not in isolation. Looking at the example of the early church in Acts, Pastor Stacie shows how both large worship gatherings and smaller, house-to-house communities are essential for spiritual growth. Small groups are where we are truly known, supported, and strengthened in faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, this is Andy Wood, and I'm the pastor here at Saddleback Church, and this is our podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these new messages every week, and I hope you enjoy today's message. |
| 0:14.2 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:28.5 | Well, I'm so excited to get to welcome you to this particular weekend here at Saddleback Church, because like Doug was saying earlier, this is a historic, monumental moment in the life of our church. |
| 0:35.5 | I don't even know if you realize that. This is a watershed |
| 0:37.8 | moment. And if I had to describe how I'm feeling in this moment with a photograph, this is the one I would |
| 0:45.1 | choose. I'm serious. I feel like Steve Jobs at Macworld. Like, okay, so I ran this by my teenage sons. |
| 0:55.0 | I showed them this picture. |
| 0:56.0 | I was like, do you know who this is? |
| 0:57.0 | And do you know what's happening in this picture? |
| 0:59.0 | Because it was back in 2007. |
| 1:01.0 | And they both knew. |
| 1:03.0 | They knew who it was. |
| 1:04.0 | And then I ran it past my 11-year-old daughter. |
| 1:07.0 | And she did not, her best guess was, is that Thomas Edison? I thought, no, not exactly. |
| 1:16.1 | But for all of you who are 12 and older, you know that that moment, that he introduced this |
| 1:21.5 | product, it not only changed all of the tech industry, it literally changed the world. And the way that we do life, |
| 1:29.2 | the way we communicate. And what we're introducing here, what our team has been working tirelessly |
| 1:34.4 | on for the last several months to introduce today, I feel like can have that big of a game-changing |
| 1:41.3 | effect on our church family. And so I'm here for it. I don't know how I got |
| 1:46.2 | chosen to be the spokesperson for today, but I'm here for it. I'm very excited. So our goal today, |
| 1:52.8 | this weekend, our prayer and our hope is that every single person who calls Saddleback Church |
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