Welcome today, all of our life churches. I say our life churches. I mean, I'm not officially

on staff here, but I'm kind of like your little brother that you never knew that you had.

And I hope you like me. I'm Stephen Furtick, a pastor at church in Charlotte, North Carolina.

And I wanted to share something with you a little bit different last week. I told you how

Pastor Craig is like a big brother to me, how much I look up to your church, how grateful

we are for your influence. But I wanted to say something maybe to the church as a whole

that you may not know from your vantage point. Really live church.tv and all of the network

churches and everyone associated with this ministry. You are rebels and rule breakers and game

changers. Here's what I mean by that. In the early 1990s, I was about 12 years old, okay?

There was a band called Nirvana that came on the scene and they sounded so different than

everything else that was on the radio. In the 80s, everything was glam rock, long guitar solos,

eight minute songs, and multi-million dollar recording budgets. Nirvana came on the scene and

really their first hit song only had four chords in it. And it was loud and it was stripped down.

And many people would say that Nirvana, and I'm not making a moral statement about whether or

not you should buy their albums, but just from a purely musical, historical perspective.

Many people would say that that single band and their lead singer Kurt Cobain killed the 80s.

Like they totally redefined music with just one song and four chords. They brought a whole

system down. And now everything wasn't about big, huge recording budgets and big hair and tight pants.

It was about simple songs. And it was like this anti-establishment thing. And you know,

this may seem like a stretch to you. But as I was thinking about live church and pastor

Craig and Amy's leadership and what you guys represent in the body of Christ, I was thinking that

in so many ways what Kurt Cobain and Nirvana did to the 80s, you guys have done to the competitive

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