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Kingmaker: How We Can Build Something for God's Glory
July 2, 2024 · 32 min
Pastor John Mark discusses Joash's passion for restoring the temple and how he built it for God's glory. John Mark also talks about how Cottonwood Creek Church is about doing this very same thing.
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Pastor John Mark discusses Joash's passion for restoring the temple and how he built it for God's glory. John Mark also talks about how Cottonwood Creek Church is about doing this very same thing. ...more Show the full description Show less Pastor John Mark discusses Joash's passion for restoring the temple and how he built it for God's glory. John Mark also talks about how Cottonwood Creek Church is about doing this very same thing.
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The Legacy of King Joash 0:00 If you are new here, we have been in a series entitled Kingmaker. And as we've looked at this series, we've looked at some kings that have done some very good things. And those good decisions and0:12 positive policies caused them literally to be great kings. But, we've also looked at kings that made poor policy, and horrible decisions. And those became0:24 king breakers. And what happens is when there's bad policy or bad things at the top, it ultimately makes its way down to the bottom. And so based on the kind of king that the children0:36 of Israel had, they were either experiencing blessings or curses. They were having good times or bad times. And so as we've looked at these kings, if you missed them, I wanna encourage you to go back. Now I've had0:47 probably more people email me or text me or say, love the series, pastor, because we're choosing kings that most people haven't heard of. Today, I'm going to look at a guy named Joash, because we're in the middle of0:59 this building campaign, we're going to break ground today. And Joash, we told his story a couple of weeks ago on Father's Day. That Joash was ultimately in the line to be the king. But,1:11 you had a, you had a royal family that wasn't that royal. They tried to eliminate Joash and his entire family. And it was a priest that took Joash,1:23 hid him in the temple, made sure that he was okay, and then brought him out to be king at the right time. And so as we think about where we are, in the story, Joash takes1:34 over after there had been a number of bad kings that did not spend time in worship, and ultimately the people hurt. So let's dive in, let me just show you this. Look at 2 Chronicles chapter1:46 24 verse 1. Says Joash was 7 years old when he became king. Remember he was hid away? They hid him in the temple, they taught him God's word. When he was 7 years old, he became king and he reigned1:58 in Jerusalem for 40 years. Here's the key phrase, verse 2. Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years of Jehoiada the priest.2:10 And so what happened is this priest took Joash in, hid him in the temple, taught him God's word, taught him to worship, taught him to love everything, and what happened as a result is Joash became a godly king. And I2:21 love this idea that Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. But notice, it wasn't just the king, it was also the priests that were together. Boy, there's a lot of talk2:33 today that politics and religion don't mix. Let me tell you what, if you get religionless politics, you're gonna have bad policy. How many of us understand that? Alright? So what you2:45 don't want, is you don't want politics influencing church, but you do want, in the framers of the Constitution, allow this, the church to influence politics. Why? Because that's where we're gonna get good and2:57 godly decisions that become kingmakers and country makers, and not king breakers or country breakers. And so as we think about Joash, here he has this priest that is helping3:09 him make good and godly decisions all the way through his life. Now fast forward a couple years, notice what it says. Verse 4, Sometime later, Joash decided to restore the temple of the Lord.3:21 See, prior to Joash, there had been 1 bad king after another bad king after another bad king. They neglected the temple, they neglected worship, they know it, neglected a lot of things. As As a matter of fact, some of3:31 the kings who were before Joash would go into the temple and say, you know what, I would really like that gold cup for my own self. And they really robbed from the temple and put it in their own house. And so3:43 Joash looks up, because he has a passion for the people, he says it's time for me to restore the temple. If you look in the Old Testament, there are 4 major3:55 revivals that we see of God's people and God's word in the Old Testament. And it certainly goes with where we are today about groundbreaking. The 4 great revivals were all wrapped around building or rebuilding.4:08 If you go to second Chronicles and you see Solomon building the temple, it says that the people worshiped and celebrated, they confessed their sins, and God poured out his blessings on them when they built the4:19 temple. Fast forward to after the exile, when the children of Israel come back, a guy named Zerubbabel, you don't have to spell that to get into Heaven, but that's his name. The temple had been left in ruins.4:31 And so a guy named Zerubbabel called the people together, restored the temple, go read it. It says, the people worship God in powerful and amazing ways. There was another guy that built something, it wasn't the temple,4:43 he didn't restore or rebuild the temple. A guy named Nehemiah. He came back and he rebuilt the wall, and remember it says, and those people worked next to those people who worked next to those people, and over and over4:54 again. And what happened at the end of that? Man, the Ezra stood up, they began to read God's word, the people worshiped in a powerful way. Says they brought, they brought the choirs out, and it was an amazing thing.5:07 And the fourth revival is this 1 right here. This 1 right here, where Joash looks at the temple. And he wants to do right in God's eyes,5:19 and he's got a passion for people. And he says my people are going astray because they have no place to worship and spend time. And so Joash rebuilds the temple. You say Pastor, why do you think it is that there seems to5:31 be a correlation in God's Word between something being built, restored, or rebuilt, and revival taking place. Let me just tell you, I don't know for sure, but here is a5:42 thought. If you go in Matthew chapter 6, Jesus is teaching and he says, you can't serve 2 masters. You can't serve God and mammon. And what5:54 happens is when people decide they're going to build something, and we're going to see it here, the people get singularly focused on worshiping God and serving God, and instead of having this dual commitment,6:06 they say, you know what, God, you have called us to this. And I think because they put away that second commitment, and they seek to serve and worship God, and him alone, the revival breaks6:18 out. And I will tell you, this is, as I look at our church right now, man we're in the midst of a season of revival. Do y'all see that? Do you sense it? God give God a hand. Man,6:30 every time we have baptism services, 50 people, 35 people, 25 people, man God is good because we are singularly focused on honoring him and loving him. So as we think about this,6:42 there are some principles I want us to glean, I want you to see, as we just quickly walk through the restoration of the temple under Joash. And then I want to talk to you a little bit about make room, tell you some good6:53 things that are happening, give you some exciting news, maybe some information that you didn't have. If you're new here, you'll know what's about to happen and what's going on. But thought number 1, so how are we gonna7:02 do something or build something for God's glory according to the pattern that we find right here in second Chronicles chapter 24 verse 5. Number 1, if you're really gonna do something for God's glory,7:14 you can't just expect a few people to do it all. A lot of times there have been seasons in churches and spaces, well you know what, you know, they can just do it. They can take care of it. As a matter of fact, that's7:26 what Joash starts off trying to do. Here, pick it up verse 5. Says he called together the priest and the Levites and said to them, go and repair the temple for your Lord. If you read what happens,7:38 the next few verses after that, it says they failed mightily. Why? Because he says, hey you guys go get this done. And he says, just a few of you, go get this done, get the priests, get the Levites, y'all get it7:50 done and everything can happen. Y'all can be the contractors, the laborers, y'all can raise the money, y'all can do it all. And guess what? Total failure. Why? Why? Because only a few people were8:02 asked to do it. Listen, when God calls us to do something as a church or as a people, he wants all of us to be a part of it. Boy, if you look in the old testament, this temple they were gonna be rebuilt, this place of8:13 worship, was for everyone. If you look in the New Testament, that's called the church. The church is for everyone, it's not just for a few. And when we all come together and make powerful commitments and decisions to8:25 serve God, God shows up in powerful and real ways. So thought number 2, thought number 1, don't just choose a few people to build something. Number 2, communicate the vision and the need to all the8:37 people. Just tell everybody what it is. And we've been saying for a while, man, we need a student building. We need, more atrium space. We need more senior adult. We need more parking. How many of you know we need more8:48 parking? Yeah, and a good way to get on and off the campus. I mean, just communicate the vision. So here's what he did, he communicated. At the king's command, now again, he put a few people in charge, they failed.9:00 He calls them back together and says they got a better plan. I'm gonna communicate to everybody. And so notice what it says, at the king's command, a chest was made. If you've ever heard of the chest of Joash, this is9:10 where this comes from. Placed outside at the gate of the temple of the Lord. And then a proclamation, that means to pour forth the king's message. To tell the people9:22 the vision. To invite people to embrace the vision of restoring the temple in that day. So a proclamation was then issued in Judah and Jerusalem, all over, that's everyone. That they9:34 should bring to the Lord the tax that Moses, the servant of God, had required Israel to give when they were in the wilderness. So here's the successful part of the plan. He didn't choose just a few, he says everybody's9:45 gonna be involved. Communicates the vision, communicates the need, everybody embraces it, they step forward. Man, a vision is powerful. But where there is no vision, it says the9:57 people stumble. And so, I'm just going to tell you, we're putting a vision before you. That ultimately, we want to reach students. They are struggling, they're hurting. If you have little children right now, maybe10:08 they're 3, 4, 5 years, we're building a building where they can grow up. I want you to know that we want to build young men in our church, that when they go to college, they don't become men in a fraternity.10:20 They become godly men right here and they show up in college as God's men. We want to do the same thing with ladies. Teach ladies to grow up as young, Godly women. We don't want them10:32 to grow up and become women at college. We want them to understand how important they are, and how God created them. And that's our vision. That's our call, that's our ultimate vision for doing10:43 everything we do. And so as you think about it, they restored it, proclamation to everybody, everybody begins to embrace it. So notice this, here's number 3, everybody participated.10:55 Everybody participated. And now as you think about their participation, everybody didn't participate at the same level. Some people probably had very little and they put in very little. Some people had a whole lot and11:07 they put in a whole lot. But everybody participated. Pick it up, we'll read this in verse 10. It says, all the officials, that's the king, the priest, and the Levites, but it doesn't stop there, that would11:19 be just a few. And all the people, everybody say that's us. That's us. And all the people, so here you have the leadership, the leadership's not saying y'all do it. And the people aren't saying y'all do11:31 it. They're all saying let's do it together. So here it is, all the officials and all the people brought their contributions gladly, dropping them into the chest until it was full. So what caused the11:43 success? That everybody embraced the vision. Man, we need, they needed to restore the temple, they needed a place to worship, they needed to serve God and Him alone. And that's what they wanted, and they also wanted to11:53 leave a legacy for the generations to follow of what it really looks like when God's people embrace God's vision. And so that's what happened, all the people participated, they brought in, made12:05 contributions, notice it said gladly. Man, the 1 thing that we're not going to do is not, we're not going to hound you for money. We're going to invite you to embrace the vision, say hey, we're going to build this for12:16 the next generation and the generation after that, and we're gonna invite you to show up and say we're gladly willing to do this. To embrace the vision, to reach senior adults, to reach kids, to get on and off the12:27 campus. That's what we're gonna do. And we're not gonna force it to you. Now, I love this, we're gonna see here in a second, this chest would get filled up, they would bring it to the king and all of the officials, and12:39 they would empty it. Then they would set it in his place, and it would get filled up again, and it would get filled up again, and it would get filled up again, so much so that there was a large amount of money. So notice12:48 this, the leaders and the people ultimately gave until the project was complete. You say, where do you see this? Look at verse 11, let's just continue to read. Whenever the chest was brought to the13:00 Levites, brought by the Levites to the king's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money. That large amount of money means a whole lot. Alright? The royal secretary, maybe13:11 in our church, the financial secretary and the officer of the chief priest, would come in and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this regularly and collected a great deal of money. They didn't13:22 collect the money all at once. People would come in, give, it would get full, they would empty it, they would put it back out there. People would come in, they would give, they would empty it, then they would take it13:32 back out there. And so notice what it says, a large amount of money. The king and Jehoiada, remember the king and the priest, the king and the priest together, the king and Jehoiada then gave it to those who carried out13:43 the work that was required. Contractors. You say, what kind of people were those? For the temple of the Lord, they hired masons and carpenters to restore the Lord's temple, and also workers in13:55 iron and bronze to repair the temple. So here's the deal. The process was, communicate the vision. The people embraced the vision. They put out a chest, they give you an14:07 opportunity to give. The people gave gladly. They continued to give, all the people, not just some of the people, until the project was ultimately completed. And so you14:19 see in this passage, you see a number of things. You see their leadership. They had kings, and they had priests, they had a lot of those things. Listen, when you think about stewardship in the Bible, there are 2 things14:30 that we see. We've got an image we'll show you. Certainly, there's what is many referred to as the tithe. The tithe is the most fair way of giving and stewardship as you could possibly imagine. It just14:41 says, give a tenth. A tenth. If you make very little, your tenth is smaller than someone who makes a whole lot. That's a tithe, that goes into the general offering or the general budget, that's where we do missions,14:53 that's where we do children's ministry, student ministry, all of those things. But then there's a second thing that you see over and over again, and that's what you saw with the people here. That's called an offering. An15:04 offering is above and beyond the tithe that goes for a specific project. And so when you think about our make room and the student building, these are called offerings. You're giving your offering to say man, I wanna15:16 help build that building. I wanna help build those education rooms. I wanna help continue to reach people for God's glory in a powerful way. Now, you also looked in this passage, there was a lot of emphasis put on the15:27 leadership. That you had the king, you had a priest, you had Levites, you also said you had a financial secretary that was there. Let me tell you, I've showed you this before. Here's how our church leadership is handled.15:39 We'll put it up there for you. Notice, the first thing you'll notice up at the top, those are called trustees. Those are all lay people, they are trustees, they sit at the top of the org chart. I am not at the top of the15:50 org chart, alright? Do you understand that? I am under authority, and I'm under the trustee's authority. The next thing you'll see are stewardship team and the personnel team. Those are 2 standing committees. Stewardship16:02 team, obviously, oversees all the money. So as the money is collected and we look and see where it goes, they track this every week, they look at it, they get reports that's sent, and know exactly where the money is16:13 gonna be spent. Personnel team oversees, all the staff and all the personnel. Then under that, you'll see the senior staff. That's where I and Greg and Scott and Justin and Justin, and Chase and Dave all16:25 come in there along with Janna. And so that's where your senior staff is. We We are under authority. And as we're under authority, we then have to ultimately be held16:37 accountable to them for doing good as we lead the organization, lead the church. And then below us, as a senior staff, you'll see staff, and then ultimately ministries. So if you wonder, when you give, what16:49 happens? This is the process. Trustees are going to oversee it. Stewardship team's going to be watching it. We're basically, you don't want me building this thing. How many of you know that?17:01 Okay? You ever seen me build anything? It's not a good thing. Alright? But that's the process. Their process in the Old Testament, you had the king and the priest were working side by side together, restoring the temple.17:13 Then you had the secretaries, you had all of those other people. Alright, so here's the final thought as you think about what made it successful. They celebrated with continual worship. Once it was done, they celebrated.17:25 Says when they finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king in Jehoshoda, and and with it were made articles for the Lord's temple, articles for service17:37 and for the burnt offerings. So what happens? They then brought the rest of the money and they bought fixtures. For us it'd be tables, chairs, those kind of things, right? Not donuts, tables, chairs, actual fixture17:48 things, right? Articles for service, burnt offerings, and dishes, and objects of gold, and objects of silver. As long as Jehoshaphat lived, burnt offerings were presented continually in the temple of the Lord. I love18:00 this idea. That you had the king and the priest working together, and as long as Jehoshaphat was a priest, there was constant worship. You say, pastor, how can we constantly worship? Here's how you do it. If you're a18:11 part of Make Room, every time you come in and you look, and you see all those people, I'm a show it to you in a second, that are worshiping up there, you know you had a part in that. When you walk in some Sunday18:23 and you see students in that student building, you can know that you had a part of that. When you see senior adults in an education space, you can know that. That's an idea of continual worship. We come in and say, God,18:34 thank you so much. Guys, we are in the midst of revival as a church. But if you look at those 4 seasons in the Old Testament, when18:46 something starts getting built, God shows up in a powerful way. Because people ultimately say, we're not serving 2 masters. We're going to serve 1 God. And God's going to18:58 show up and powerfully bless us. So, I want to talk to you about make room. Some of you are brand new, won't know anything about it. I want to share with you really what make room is all about. And I want to start with a19:09 video from 1 of our trustees. So look to the video and we'll see Ryan.19:15 Hi. My name is Ryan Richardson. I'm a trustee and deacon here at Cottonwood Creek Church. In September, our church kicked off a 10000000 dollar capital campaign called Make Room. The purpose of this campaign was to do19:26 exactly that, make room for how God is blessing Cottonwood Creek with tremendous growth and spiritual renewal. The Make Room campaign has 3 phases. Phase 1 includes 825 stadium seats in the19:38 back of the worship center, which are already in place thanks to the advanced giving of our church membership. Also included are additional sidewalks, parking, and ingress and egress points in and out of the campus to19:49 make traffic flow easier. But the most exciting news of phase 1 are the additional restrooms, which I think we can all agree are much needed. Phase 2 includes a new extended atrium that provides a lobby throughout the20:00 entire back of the worship center and creates a new entrance on the west side of the building. There will also be a much needed New Creek student ministry space for our sixth through twelfth grade students. This space20:11 will have 500 plus seats, an LED wall and other new technology, movable glass that allows movement to the sand volleyball courts and also to the new outdoor courtyard where small groups can meet or events20:23 can be held when weather permits. Ultimately, these new student spaces will be a place to pour into and develop our students 7 days a week, not just on Sunday mornings. Phase 3 includes a ministry support and20:35 administration building. Currently, the staff is spread all over the building. This new space will bring staff together in 1 location that will create more collaboration, efficiency, prayer, and Bible study. The new20:47 administration space also creates 4 additional life group rooms to be located where some of the administrative offices are currently located. Now if you like even more details about the Make Room campaign, visit20:58 cottonwoodcreek dot org forward slash make room. God is doing some amazing things in the life of our church, and we'd like to invite you to be a part of it by giving above your tithe to the Make Room campaign as21:10 we prepare to minister to the growing number of people coming to our church. Thank you. And I can't wait to see how God is going to continue to bless Cottonwood Creek.21:21 Alright. Give God a hand on that. And let me just, as you saw some of that, I know we were going quickly through these, let me just walk you through so you can have a better grasp and then you can ask21:33 questions, if you want to outside a bit. Just a better grasp of everything that's take place. Let me give you, first of all, we want to put a site plan up there. Let's put that site plan up there. Notice, a couple of21:43 things. First of all, the blue that is the back of the worship center, that's all of that worship seating that is being utilized now each and every week. You'll notice phase 1 he also said, new bathrooms, the most21:54 exciting part. I I did notice y'all chuckled so you got the joke, but you also, that was your amen along the way. But then the phase 2 was the student building. Then phase 3 was new22:06 education for senior adults as we put the staff together in an admin building. So, want you to see that. That is completed. We are ready to break ground on the student building and the atrium new bathrooms.22:18 That's what we're gonna do immediately following the 11 o'clock service. So that's, that's really what's coming if you don't get it, alright. Now 1 of the things that you'll see or notice, when we started this about a22:28 year and a half ago with architects and planning, they basically had a student building that's the same size as our chapel. Okay? That was, then we got into the data after we had already looked through it and we22:40 realized they fill that up every week. We don't want to build them a building that they immediately are are are larger than. So we increased the student building. We needed to increase the student building by 4022:51 percent. So you'll see some of the numbers later. Why did they go up? You'll see here in a second. Alright, so that's that's first. Site plan. Here's number 2, current parking. How many of y'all love parking at23:01 Cottonwood Creek? Alright. Everybody raise their hand, you show up with me at 6 30. Right? It's really easy. If you wanna come to church 6 30, you can have any parking lot you want. Let me show you a current23:13 parking map and notice a couple of things. Number 1, you see the green up at the top? That is Harley. If you don't want to get in the mess, you can go park at Harley right off 123:24 21. Alright? It is always open, there is usually 1 Sunday a a month that they will close 1 1 entrance, but you can still get around it. They do some motorcycle23:36 driving and testing and stuff. But, if you wanna park up at Harley, notice the red line, we put a sidewalk all the way down. Now notice all the red is stuff we've already paid for and completed. If you look at the south,23:47 we added another lane just out back. You'll also notice we added a brand new exit, ingress egress point out to Ridgeview, and then notice going off to the side, you see that big red23:59 gravel? We have now made that county road where you can drive on at any time and it's wide enough for 2 cars to pass each other. So, if you want the secret sauce on how to get off this campus, use that county road. I24:11 will promise you, you will be glad that you do. Now notice the gravel parking, but then that's ready, that's right out there. But notice we're about to put in a part of this whole plan, is an enlarged24:23 new parking facility that will park about 260 cars. So that's where the yellow, and that's 1 thing that is coming. Alright, let's go, oh and while I'm on parking, we are in24:35 the process of trying some things new. Okay, we want to make sure that when we are getting people on and off our campus, we are as efficient as we can. So I want you to know, the month of July, we24:47 are trying some new things. Alright? So don't run over our volunteers. Okay? We're just saying, you know, what if we what if we have people do this instead of that? What if we have people do this? So, example,24:59 if you parked in the west parking lot, after this first service only, we are gonna try to direct you to leave out of the south. Why do we want you to leave out of the south side of the church? Well, we have 225:11 concrete exits and gravel that you can exit. So, if they're telling you to go out south, it's because we're just trying something new. Okay? So so don't don't yell at our volunteers. Don't yell at25:23 the pastor either. So if you've gotta choose, yell at the volunteers. Kidding. That was a joke. Alright. Here's something that's been all over the neighborhood blocks. Alright. How many of you have25:35 heard that there's a Costco coming that is going to be our neighbor? Alright, let's go ahead and put that image up there. How many of you are Costco fans? Okay, you're in luck.25:48 So, there it is. The Allen Economic Development Committee, we'd always been looking at some, to design some things. The Allen Economic Development Committee actually owned that property. Costco is in the process26:00 of finishing up, their final approvals with planning and zoning. They're looking to get started in the fall. So unless there's a total collapse somewhere within the city and Costco, which no 1 says is26:12 gonna happen, Costco is about to be our neighbor. Now, a lot of what is being said on the, on the blogs is that it's gonna make it worse for our church. It is not. Okay? Let me26:24 show you why. Because in our negotiating, this Costco drive that is now the gravel drive, it is now gonna be full concrete lanes all the way,26:36 notice the yellow or lime green, whatever it is, all the way to the new drive that we just poured. And it's gonna be all concrete. And then notice when you get to the end of the end of Costco, it's26:47 gonna turn and go north into our west parking. So basically, in about a year, we will have gone from 2 entrances to 4 concrete entrances in and out of our church. So,26:59 if you like, give God a hand on that. So if you do like Costco, you can come to church and get spiritually fed, and you can leave and go get physically fed. Alright?27:11 And since Chick fil A won't open, you can go to Costco on Sunday and not feel bad about it. Alright? So let's see, alright let me go to the next 1. Just keep telling Oh, if if you27:23 also want to stay out of, we also have shuttle parking. If Alliance Bank, shuttle parking right down there, and you can go never have to worry about getting on and off this campus. You27:35 can park there. It's easy. My wife Gina prefers this, over everything. You just get on down there, turns around, drops you off right at the front of the church. So if you want to get involved in that, you can do that.27:46 Alright. Remote shuttle parking is also available. Alright. Now, let's go to the last 1. Here here's the thermostat. This is where we are and this is where we're going. Alright. You will notice as you look up there, we27:58 have already had 6600000.0 dollars given to the project. Give God a hand on that. You will notice the amount that is28:10 pledged is 11128000. Alright? Then you will notice the next 1, which is 14, okay? You say what's the delta in there? What changed?28:21 Well, we expanded the student building because we didn't want to build something they were immediately going to be out out, be too large for. And the second thing is, when we started with our consultants and our28:33 people, probably 2 years ago, they just missed the number. They just missed the number. Everything's coming in more expensive. I do have good news for you. Our construction team has been28:44 interviewing contractors. As of Thursday of this week, a couple of days ago, they signed, they put the ink on the paper with the contractor. Give God a handle on that.28:57 So, you say where are we at, Pastor? You see already given. You see amount pledged. You see a delta up at the top. The invitation for you is God's people. If you want29:09 to join, if you want to give, if you want to participate, we'd love to get all the way to that 14000000 dollar mark. And so that's really where we are. And so, I I just wanted to share that with you, take a little29:21 time, tell you how good God has been. I want to encourage you to stick around for groundbreaking right after the 11 o'clock service. Alright? But if you have children,29:33 go get your kids before we come to groundbreaking. Don't make our volunteers stay there very long. They might just release your kids anyway. Alright. But, here's what's so awesome.29:45 So our middle school happens to be at middle school camp. And so, they were very disappointed that they were going to miss groundbreaking. But they29:56 recorded y'all a video, and so let's check-in with them.30:02 Hey, church family. My name is Chase Durham, student pastor here at Cottonwood Creek Church, and we are so so excited about this Make Room campaign and the breaking ground event that we are about to have. Because this30:13 campaign is not just about building a bigger building, it's about making more room for your friends, for your family, for your coworkers, for your neighbors. And the people that I'm most excited for, that we30:25 are making room for, is the next generation.30:42 Church family, join us for the breaking ground event as we pray and as we celebrate the gospel going forward through Cottonwood Creek Church.30:51 Alright. Give God a hand for that. Chase did tell me, I won't tell you the name. Chase did tell me that 1 of the people said they're breaking ground, will it be done by the time we get back from camp?31:04 I won't tell you whose daughter that was, but I'm gonna tell them because I now know. But anyway, man, it is so awesome just to think about the opportunity we have. So the invitation to you is pray31:16 and give. When you give, let's give gladly. And then every time you walk in here and see people sitting up there worshiping, know that that's your continual worship. Every time you walk by a student building, see it31:26 filled to capacity. That's your continual Every time you drive on this campus, just celebrate how good God is being to us. So, let me just pray, and then we'll be back right after the 11 o'clock service, right out31:38 there for a groundbreaking. God, thank you so much. Just for a church that is filled with people who are passionate about serving you, God, worshiping you.31:51 God, we want to honor you in everything that we do, everything that we build, Because, God, the needs are great. Students are in desperate need of32:03 truth, real truth. God, people are longing in their marriage, or in their life, whatever, to understand their value and significance as created beings of32:15 the 1 true God. Let us be a church that is faithful. Let us be a church that prays. Let us be a church that gives. Let us be a church with joy. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.In this video 0:00 The Legacy of King JoashComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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