S2:E8 Relocating for the Mission, with CJ Epperson

So kinda what we wanna do in this program, and as Dave said, our goal is to help churches be on mission, hyper-focused, okay? Nobody wants to just exist, okay? Existing is biological, living is spiritual.

Churches that just exist, uh, are not making an impact for the kingdom.

They're just not.

So we created this podcast to assist, coach, pray with, cheer churches on to be on mission with Jesus Christ, the founder of the Church.

And the Book of Acts is all about churches on mission.

Right.

So I wanna start our program off today with a passage, okay? It's an Old Testament passage, and it's, it's, and it's found in 1 Samuel 14.

The Bible says, "It happened one day that Jonathan," uh, the, which was the son of Saul, "said to a young man who was his armor-bearer," he said, "You know what? Let's go over to the Philistines' garrison on the other side." Uh, but his dad he didn't tell.

Now, the Bible says Saul was actually sitting on the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree, uh, which is in Migron, and the people who were with him were about 600 men.

So he's got his whole army, or a bunch of his army, and they're just eating fruit.

It's like a big, uh, church dinner, you know, a big potluck dinner under the tree.

And Jonathan's like, "I c- I can't do it.

I can't have another potluck dinner.

I gotta, we gotta do something." So he takes his armor-bearer, and they go and they actually, if you just go down to verse 23, "The Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle shifted." Okay, he, he won a battle, a great battle, but, but he had to separate himself, okay, listen, separate himself from the naysayers and the visionless, okay? And so I'm so thrilled that we're lu- blessed to have two guys with us.