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Week 1: Uncomplicate Your Faith
February 25, 2026 · 16 min
Faith doesn’t have to be complicated. In Part 1 of Hosanna’s Uncomplicate It series, explore how to connect with God uniquely. Free resources + book at hosannawong.com/uncomplicate-it.
Series Uncomplicate It: A Small Group Video Series February 25, 2026 · 16 min · Uncomplicate It: A Small Group Video Series
Faith doesn’t have to be complicated. In Part 1 of Hosanna’s Uncomplicate It series, explore how to connect with God uniquely. Free resources + book at hosannawong.com/uncomplicate-it. ...more Show the full description Show less Faith doesn’t have to be complicated. In Part 1 of Hosanna’s Uncomplicate It series, explore how to connect with God uniquely. Free resources + book at hosannawong.com/uncomplicate-it.
Series Uncomplicate It: A Small Group Video Series
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Uncomplicating Your Connection with God 0:19 For so much of my life, connecting with God seemed so complicated. I wasn't quite sure how to do it perfectly. I would see other people in my life connected with God, my parents, my friends, my0:30 pastor, my heroes, and the people I follow on social media. And I would assume that however they engage with God was the gold standard. That there was 1 elite way I had to connect with God or else.0:42 I thought, do I need to worship like her? Read my bible like him? Pray like them? I thought there was a box I had to fit into, a certain kind of Christian I had to look like. But there was 1 question I couldn't ignore.0:53 What if I don't fit in their box? What if my personality is different? What if my schedule is crazy? Is there a way for all of us to know God? Or is that just reserved for the spiritual elite? Only the1:04 extremely disciplined. Only those with prim and proper lives and perfect routines, only those who are morning people and embody the perfect balance of extrovert and introvert. Is that what it must take? What about those1:16 of us who cannot add 1 more thing to our to do list? What about those of us who can't start 1 more thing we feel like we're going to fail at? What about those of us who are juggling so many family and work1:27 responsibilities and there doesn't ever seem time for a minute with God? There is a way for all of us too. As it turns out, many of the expectations we put on1:39 ourselves do not come from God. My name is Hosanna Wong and I used to overcomplicate what enjoying God and enjoying my life had to look like. But I wanna tell you what I wish someone would have told me a whole lot1:51 earlier. You can uncomplicate it. Your relationship with God does not have to look like anyone else's relationship with God, and it doesn't have to look like it did 10 years ago. God wants to have a real2:03 relationship with you in your real life, with your real personality, in your real schedule. Yes. In your current chaotic season, with all that you're carrying and all that you're questioning and all that you're going2:14 through with your piles of deadlines and piles of laundry with what's weighing heavy on you and what's bringing you joy. The best way to have a real relationship with God is to have 1 with him in the middle2:26 of your very real life. And the word of God tells us this. Ephesians 1 4 says this, God shows us to be in a relationship with him even before he laid2:38 out plans for this world. Before God made any other plans, his plan was to be in a real relationship with you. Ephesians 2 10 says this, we are God's2:49 masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. God planned good things for us to do and he made us purposefully to do those3:01 good things. And then in Psalm 1 39 13 14, you made all the delicate inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for3:13 making me so wonderfully complex. Your workmanship is marvelous. How well I know it. So God made us on purpose for a purpose and made us purposefully unique3:26 complex. He made us wonderfully specific. So here is my question. Why would God create us differently wonderfully, and uniquely if he ultimately wanted us all to connect with him in the exact same way?3:38 The word of God says we were created to be in a relationship with God and we were created with complex and wonderful specifics by God. So why don't we see our uniqueness as a part of3:49 how God wants to have a relationship with us? Who told you that your uniqueness stood in the way of you connecting with God? The opposite is true. God created you. God4:01 handmade your details. God loves your details. God thought all your details were important in order to know him, love him, love others, and live a full purposeful life.4:13 Friend, I am sorry for the ways enjoying God and enjoying the life he has called you to live has seemed too complicated. But throughout this mini video series whether you're watching this video alone with a4:25 small group or if you're watching it as a companion to my book uncomplicated. I hope to help you break free from unrealistic expectations. Drop the guilt, shame, and comparison that has come from the4:37 lie that your relationship with Jesus must look 1 certain way or else and unlock the freedom and connecting with and enjoying God for real in your real life. Consider this your permission slip4:49 to enjoy God in your unique way. For this first mini teaching, I wanna reveal to you how it's not just okay or allowed for you to be yourself with5:01 God, but it is vitally important. In fact, I wanna unpack for you something Jesus once said that I have heard most of my life. I've read it in my bible before and I've heard itAbiding in the Vine: Lessons from the Vineyard 5:13 preached on before and hey, I even used to teach on this passage myself. But it wasn't until this past season of my life that I saw something in it that I used to miss. And I have discovered some important details about5:23 this 1 passage that has helped me see God in my life and my connection with God in a whole new way. When Jesus's disciples, his students who followed him, asked him how to live and how to live5:35 well. Jesus said this in John 15, Abide in me and I will abide in you. He continues a branch cannot bear fruit if it is disconnected from the5:47 vine and neither will you if you are not connected to me. I am the vine and you are the branches. If you abide in me and I in you, you will bear great fruit. Without me, you will accomplish nothing.5:59 Now I will tell you that for a long time, I didn't fully understand what abide meant or how to live that out practically. So to me these words were good but a little fancy and not very practical. But then I6:11 went on a journey to unpack what it actually looks like to abide, to be connected to God and to have flourishing and enjoyable life. And I wanna tell you what I unpacked in modern day vineyards. In fact, I used to teach6:23 on abiding in Christ before I had this specific revelation. And I'd like to update my teaching on abiding and reveal to you some freeing truths I unearth in the vineyards of6:35 Italy. My husband Guy and I took a trip to a small family vineyard in the hills of Tuscany. We met Niccolo because of course his name was Niccolo who had worked in that vineyard for6:47 years and was now basically like family to the family who owned the vineyard. And Niccolo pointed to 3 vineyards surrounding us. He explained that the owner of the vineyard, Anibale,6:58 had planted 3 distinct vineyards on different parts of his hilly land and named each after 1 of his 3 daughters. Each vineyard had its own unique type of7:10 soil, environmental factors, and weather quirks just like the 3 girls each had different interest, temperaments, and personalities. It was the differences in each vineyard that brought out the unique7:22 qualities in their grapes and created the unique rich flavors in their individual wines. Well, now remember I'm here trying to research about vineyards and branches and vines and ultimately how to apply it7:34 to abiding in Christ. So I asked Michelo, hey, what if I wanted to start a vineyard? And he said, oh, you do? Which we couldn't help but laugh because like, look at me. Nothing about me gives off a deep in7:45 the dirt farmer kind of vibe. So I said, no. But what would you say to the person who wanted to start a flourishing vineyard? And I'm thinking his answers will help me with this metaphor7:57 from Jesus, help me uncover like the 10 steps of how you and I can connect with God, how we can abide in Jesus, how we can enjoy God and enjoy our lives. But he didn't give me 10 steps. He didn't8:09 give me perfectly packaged advice. He said, I don't have advice for you. He said, first I have 2 questions. What kind of soil do you have and what is your vision?8:22 Every soil is different, he continued. All over the world, you'll find very different soils. Even in the area we're in, the vineyards down the road and the ones a few miles after that, all of us might share8:33 similar weather patterns and resources, but our soil is different. Even our 3 small vineyards right here have different soils. So you must ask yourself, what are you working with? What are you starting from? If you want8:45 to start growing, I will first ask you about your soil. And then he asked about our idea, our vision, our dream. What was the goal of our vineyard? To produce a certain wine or grape or product or restaurant or8:57 community or experience? What was the goal? Those are my 2 questions, he said. Because your soil and your vision will dramatically change your next steps. He said there is no next step that9:09 works for every soil and every vision. So first know those 2 things then you make a plan And he explained all the different soils of the vineyards named after the 3 daughters and then he said, Hosanna.9:21 There is no specific next step written exactly for every living organism with every single soil and every single vision and every season. There are different roadblocks from the changing9:33 environments, weather and limitations. And there are also different advantages that all the vineyards have. We have many different ways of accomplishing what we set out to do. But you must know where you're starting from9:44 and where you want to go and then we're gonna go from there. He said everything after that it depends.Your Soil: Roadblocks, Shortcuts, and Real Faith 10:00 Friends, I wanna bring these truths from the vineyards of Italy to right where you are. The same goes with us when it comes to connecting with God. Yes, it can be easy to compare ourselves to others. To10:12 look at other flourishing vineyards or other people's routines or how someone else lives out their faith. And we might think, okay, I could do exactly that or else I want their 10 perfect steps to flourishing.10:24 But that might not help your vineyard. That might not help your faith or your relationship with God. In fact, it might not help it. It might hurt it. Instead, let's ask 2 questions. What kind10:36 of soil do you have and what are you made of? Where are you starting from? How has your past shaped you? How has your lens of God or the church shaped you? What is happened10:48 in your life that you've overcome? Not everyone comes from your soil. So what in your present is important to you? What do you need from God right now? The best way to flourish? Know your own soil. Know what you're made11:00 of. And then what is your vision? What do you want your life to produce? What are your hopes for your future? Your relationships? Your life? Have you named it? Have you thought about and identified the kind of life11:12 you wanna live? There are not 10 strict steps for every person to perfectly follow to flawlessly connect with God. But there is a way for all of us to uniquely11:24 grow and flourish. How? As Nicola once said, it depends. It depends on who you really are and what God is calling you into next. And how you connect with God might look different than how I connect with11:36 God and different than how your friend connects with God. And that is a good thing. Our soil is different. Our vineyards will be different, but we can all11:47 be flourishing. I wanna tell you what to expect for the next few teachings and what to expect in the pages of my book, Uncomplicated. I sit out on a journey to unpack the various ways11:59 that people all over the world experience God. That journey is why you are watching this video now. I asked over 1000 people from around the world these 2 questions. 1, what12:11 has stood in the way of you connecting with God? And 2, what is a unique way you have found to connect with God? And do you know what I discovered? Over 1000 different answers12:23 from over 1000 different people. People with different schedules, different backgrounds, and different personalities. People from different soils, different environments, flourishing in their own12:35 way. And my book is filled with so many of those unique stories. So make sure you get a copy. But in this mini teaching, these mini teaching videos, I wanna unpack for you a12:47 bit of what I learned from all of them. And so I encourage you to do both together the book and the videos. But today, I wanna tell you this. Through 1000 conversations, I discovered 6 of the most common roadblocks12:59 that stand in the way of people feeling connected with God. 1, busyness. 2, distractions. 3, grief. 4, shame. 5, silence13:11 not hearing from God. And 6, expectations. And I discovered 6 shortcuts as well. 6 ways that we can bulldoze through the roadblocks and unlock how we can each uniquely13:22 connect with God with our own personality, our own schedules, our seasons, and our soils. The long windy rocky road to connect with God is to try to have a relationship13:34 with him like someone else does or like you used to in a totally different season. But we will discover through God's word that the shortcut to be who you really are and connect with God in the middle of your real13:46 life is this, your soil. Your soil is your shortcut. Your season is your shortcut and your specific details are indeed your shortcut. The best way for you to have a13:58 relationship with God in your real life and for you to really flourish. At the end of each video, I'm going to ask you a couple questions to consider. The best way to dive deeper and fuller into14:09 this message is to also read my book, Uncomplicate It. There's so much more for you there but today think on these questions. And if you're in a group have these conversations. In what way has14:21 connecting with God seem too complicated? In what ways have you felt unrealistic expectations about what a life with God must look like or else? What is your soil and what is your vision? For14:33 example, what are you made of? What are things about yourself that make you uniquely you? And what are your hopes for your life? What do you hope to get out of this study? What is the danger of vineyards trying to grow14:44 like vineyards with different soils, environments, and resources just the same? What is the danger if we all try to have a faith exactly like each other's even though our schedules and personalities are14:56 different? What comes to mind when you think of uncomplicating your relationship with God? Let's all pray together. God, thank you for creating15:08 us, each of us uniquely. Thank you for reminding us that we don't have to perform or pretend to earn your love. God, thank you. Help us to embrace the way that you've wired us. Help us to15:20 release comparisons. Remind us that you want the real us, not a polished or perfect version, but the 1 you already love and created to enjoy you. In Jesus name, Amen15:32 and amen.In this video 0:00 Uncomplicating Your Connection with God5:04 Abiding in the Vine: Lessons from the Vineyard10:00 Your Soil: Roadblocks, Shortcuts, and Real Faith
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