Welcome to the Vood Church Podcast. Have you ever played the game of telephone? Often what

once started as a clear message becomes a distorted coy of its original meaning. Mixed messages

are all around us, but our faith is built on one message alone. Jesus. More than just a message,

a person, changes everything. Today Pastor Donnery continues our collection of talks. This is Vood.

We're exploring what it looks like to live a life built on Jesus in this sermon, the message

of a lifetime. One of the greatest ways we walk out our faith is in Vood Cruz, in Crew Start next week.

Learn more and sign up at Vood Church.com slash Cruz. Remember, Jesus gives us new life and a new

perspective. Let's lean into the message together. Last week Rick kicked us off in a brand new

collection and it's called This is Vood. Or you could call it This is Us. We're talking about the

values of our church. The values that we founded, this community upon and we're really focusing on

who we are. And our prayer today is that whether you're in this room or watching online or at one

of our other locations, that this collection would be a reset for you. That you would realize

your purpose and your destiny and your calling and that you would realize that we are all together

called to be the church. Look at your neighbor and say, be the church.

See church is not about a place. It's about a people. And we are human beings. Sometimes we look

a lot like human doings. We get caught up in the doing that today as we look to God's word,

we're focused on who are we becoming? We are the Ecclesia. We are the church. And when we gather

in this house, we come to minister to God and might have been chaos and all hell broke loose

this morning for you to get to this place or for you to turn on the TV and have a moment of peace

to look to God's word. But this is your moment. We are the Ecclesia. We minister to God. We worship

God. This is a place where we equip the saints to go out and to carry the message of Jesus.

Rick spoke so powerfully last week. If you didn't hear it, you need to hear it. He talked about

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