today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

The call to ministry and the call to be Jesus follower are always one and the same

because God only blesses you to make you a blessing.

There is no such thing as a follower of Jesus who is not actively engaged as a channel

of blessing to other people.

God is like a spiritual tornado.

He never pulls you in without also hurling you out.

Welcome back to Summit Life. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. We hope you had a great Thanksgiving day, and maybe you're

out and about working on that Christmas list right now, but the fact that you're here means that

you're ready to jump back into God's Word with us. Today, Pastor J.D. Greer answers the question,

how do we receive the blessings of God? Everyone wants to experience God's blessing. How do we really grab a hold of

that abundant life like the scriptures talk about? What is it we're supposed to do? We just begin a

series called All In, and if you miss the first message, you can catch up online at jd.gere.com.

Right now, let's get into our teaching. Pastor J.D. titled today's message,

treasure and trust. So this week, we're going to look at our second Old Testament character,

and that is the person of Abraham. And we're going to look at his story and what his story shows us

about what it means to go all in on the mission. And then we're going to look at your life

through the lens of his life. And then we're going to look at where we are as a church

through the lens of his life. So if you have your Bible, I would invite you to take it out right now

and open it to Genesis chapter 12. That's where we're going to begin. Then we're going to go to

one other place before we apply this to our church. Genesis chapter 12 verse one now the Lord said to Abraham

go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land to that I will show you

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