The Most Important Sentence In the Bible | Romans 3:23-26 | The Whole Disciple
Summit Life with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear Ministries
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🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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“Getting back to the basics” is an often repeated phrase—and for good reason. Whether you’ve been following Jesus for 10 months or 10 years, it is always beneficial to be reminded of the essential truths of the gospel, upon which our faith is built. In this week’s message, the first in our series on “The Whole Disciple,” Pastor J.D. helps us unpack some of these foundational truths from Romans 3:23–26. As true disciples of Jesus, these are the things that we cherish and continually learn from, rather than master and move on from.
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| 0:00.0 | Captivity feels like addiction. |
| 0:02.1 | It feels like relationship dysfunctions that you can't break. |
| 0:04.9 | Captivity feels like the inability to be happy or to find satisfaction or that something's not right. |
| 0:10.5 | Jesus purchased your redemption with his blood and that blood can set you free. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome. Welcome to the Summit Life podcast. I've got an exciting update for you today. Up until now, |
| 0:37.2 | this podcast has been a rebroadcast of our daily radio program five days a week. But starting today, |
| 0:39.3 | things are changing just for you, our podcast listeners. From now on, you'll hear full sermons instead of new episodes every weekday, |
| 0:45.3 | and you can look forward to hearing your two brand new, full-length sermons each week, releasing |
| 0:50.5 | every Monday and Wednesday. We hope this makes it easier for you to follow along |
| 0:55.3 | and really go deeper into God's Word. And what better time to make the switch than today? |
| 1:00.7 | We're kicking off a brand new teaching series that walks us through what it truly means to be a |
| 1:05.5 | disciple of Jesus. Dallas Willard once said the most important question a church can answer is, what is your plan for making disciples? |
| 1:14.2 | At our church, the Summit Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, we call our plan the whole disciple. |
| 1:19.8 | No matter who you are, no matter how long you've been following Jesus, you can take your next step in becoming a fully devoted follower of Jesus. |
| 1:28.9 | Because Jesus isn't after a 50% disciple. What he's always wanted is the whole disciple. The first message is titled |
| 1:35.8 | The Most Important Sentence in the Bible. Let's get started. It was July of 1961, and the 38 members of the Green Bay Packer football team had |
| 1:51.1 | assembled for their first day of training camp. |
| 1:54.1 | Their previous season had been fantastic. |
| 1:57.0 | They'd been somewhat of a Cinderella team, but they had made it all the way to the national football championship, what we today call the Super Bowl, and they had lost that championship game and a heartbreaker just by a fraction of a few minutes. |
| 2:10.3 | The returning team, the Green Bay team returning for this season in 1961 was even stronger, and it was almost certain that they would make it to the championship |
| 2:17.9 | again. They were, they were the top team in the nation. In other words, this was a group of elite |
| 2:24.1 | athletes at the very top of their sport, which is what made what coach Vince Lombardi did when he |
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