Responding to a Divided World
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
4.7 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
As Christians, how do we respond to a world full of division and conflict? How can we stay rooted in our faith while living in a constantly changing culture? In the second week of our series Hey God!, Pastor Andy Wood reminded us that if we want to know how to live, we must first know who, or what, we follow. Whether we realize it or not, we’re all being shaped by something. We can choose to follow Jesus and build our lives on the firm foundation of God’s Word, or let the world shape us instead. Who we become starts with what we follow. Pastor Andy challenged us to ask two key questions: Who am I following? and Who am I aiming to please? We can’t live to please both people and God. Living for God’s approval brings peace, purpose, and strength to stand firm in truth. Jesus modeled both grace and truth—loving people deeply while never compromising what was right. To follow him means being willing to stand apart from the world and reflect his love, truth, and compassion in all we do.
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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. |
| 0:24.0 | Together for church this weekend. I do want to take just a quick moment to acknowledge all the Dodger fans in our midst today. |
| 0:32.4 | Yeah, glad you're here. |
| 0:34.9 | Glad you're with us. |
| 0:35.9 | You know, we have this thing called Saturdays are for church, |
| 0:39.1 | except when the Dodgers are in the World Series. |
| 0:42.3 | So welcome back to Sundays. |
| 0:44.2 | It's a great weekend. |
| 0:45.6 | God's doing incredible things in our church. |
| 0:47.5 | We say that all the time. |
| 0:49.2 | We want to lift up the work of God to celebrate his faithfulness. |
| 0:52.3 | And this weekend, we launched a brand new campus |
| 0:55.0 | in Davao, Philippines. They had 460 people show up for their grand opening. And what I love |
| 1:02.8 | about this story is it's a campus that was launched out of our Santa Rosa campus in the Philippines. |
| 1:08.4 | And it was a campus that was launched with lots of prayer, |
| 1:11.4 | lots of people asking God to move, and many of you contributing to that. |
| 1:15.8 | Earlier this year, we had the Dream Now initiative, and so many of you took the step to give |
| 1:21.6 | financially to that. |
| 1:23.2 | And this weekend at the devout campus, there were people that made decisions to follow Jesus. |
| 1:28.5 | They're people whose lives will never be the same again. |
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