today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Hear this, at its core, Christianity is not about giving to God or doing things for God.

Christianity is about what God has done for you.

The heart of the gospel is not spelled Do. The heart of the Summit Church in Raleigh,

Durham, North Carolina. As always, I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

As we continue in the book of Second Samuel today,

Pastor J.D walks us through both King David's desire to build the temple

and God's response to him, one that serves as a

good reminder for us even today.

What David learned and what we often forget is that our relationship with God is not based on how much we do or give for

him. Instead, it's based on what God has already done for us and given to us. An important distinction for those of us worn out by religion.

Remember you can catch up on this teaching series online anytime at J.D.grier.. But right now grab your Bible, take some notes, and let's let these truths

speak to us today.

Second Samuel chapter 7. Several years ago we had a church member that worked at ancestry.com

and one day she came up and handed me a big folder with my name on it and she said

here is a little history of your family in America. I was a little

bored at work she said and got curious about the spelling of your last name Greer

because it seems to have that extra vowel in it, G R E A R.

And by the way, whether you know how to spell my last name

is always assigned to me

of whether you actually know me or not.

She said, I did a little research.

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