Taste and See | Chad Veach

Zoe Church LA

Chad Veach

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this message, Pastor Chad Veach launches the series “Better and Brighter,” teaching from Matthew 5 that followers of Jesus are called to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Christians aren’t meant to live for themselves, but to live on mission — helping people who are far from God encounter His love and grace. Pastor Chad emphasizes that the heart of the gospel is rescue. God didn’t send Jesus to condemn the world but to save it. Through stories like the lost sheep and the lost coin, he reminds us that being lost does not remove someone’s value — it only changes their location. God relentlessly pursues people who are far from Him because they still belong to Him. The message challenges believers to stop living small, self-centered lives and instead join God’s rescue mission. Ordinary people carry an extraordinary message — the gospel of Jesus. When Christians live boldly and share their faith, they become the salt and light that can make their cities, communities, and workplaces better and brighter.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's going on, everybody? Thank you so much for listening to this week's message from Zoe Church.
0:05.8	We are starting a brand new series today called Better and Brighter out of Matthew Chapter 5.
0:13.2	We're going to jump in in just a moment, grab your Bibles.
0:16.8	But I want to say thank you to every person that gives to and through Zoe Church.
0:21.8	We are hosting, I Love My City, this Saturday here in Los Angeles, serving people that are in need.
0:28.7	And so thank you for your generosity as it makes an impact both locally, nationally, and globally.
0:34.9	We thank you for your giving.
0:36.2	If you'd like to give today, go to the
0:37.8	website and you can give there. But let's jump into this week's message called Taste and See.
0:45.6	Today, go in your Bible, go to Matthew chapter 5. We're starting a brand new series today.
0:50.9	We're starting a series called Better and Brighter. I want to talk for the next three weeks
0:57.7	about how you and I are called to live for God, called to live in this world, making things
1:07.3	better and making things brighter. Matthew chapter 5, these are our theme verses.
1:14.7	You are the salt of the earth.
1:18.7	But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?
1:25.6	It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled
1:30.1	underfoot. You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. I want to preach
1:40.3	a message in installment number one called taste and see see see I think that as
1:46.7	believers as followers of Jesus our life should taste a little different and I think we should
1:52.9	shine a little bit brighter that we've been not called to live for ourselves but we've been
1:58.0	called to live for something bigger than ourselves. We now live for
2:03.6	God. We now live to help people find grace. This is the exciting thing about following God.
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