Sep 24, 2026 · 32 min · 8 segments
The conversation covers the upcoming sermon series at Good Life Church, focusing on the need to contend for the faith and address competing ideologies. It delves into the challenges of progressive…
Dave ConnettHost
Jack O'BrienHost
We've act- like there's a couple of times we've put new words to it or new language to it, but it's really stayed the same.
Uh, we're for our city, has now become we want to transform the world with the truth and the power of Jesus Christ.
Every, uh, I'm gonna say three to six months, um, I'll go on a retreat to go, let's plan and pray and go, go, "Where are we going and how are we going about that?" And it's everything through from, uh, are we reaching a loss? Are we making disciples? What's our services like? Look through all of the things.
Are we financially, uh, viable and going forward? Are we thriving? So we go ahead with all of those things and come back with plans and, and at the end of every calendar year, I kind of have a big one that looks at the f- the forward year.
I- in a world that is swimming, uh, in false truth claims, Jack, um, and, and some of those, some of those false truth claims come from so-called Christians.
Some of them are well-meaning Christians, some of them are just deceptive people.
Paul makes lots of warnings about deceptive people and trickery and cunning craftiness of all sorts of...
So you want to be the kind of person like, uh, Paul said to Timothy, "Be a worker who need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." Which means I can be ashamed if I wrongly or incorrectly divide the word of truth, and that usually comes by deception.
You, the, of the deception is complete when you don't see it, and there's a lot of people that are blinded by the spirit of the world.
And so we've got to be sober and be vigilant because your adversary, the devil, roams around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
What we want at Good Life Church is to build people whom he may not devour, Jack.
And so we went, "What are the things that are taking people down?" And we, we just, we just walked that through to go, look, there are three key areas.
There are three key doctrines, three key religions really, that have massive truth claims that Christians are just getting, um, first of all, getting deceived by, and second of all, they're not knowing how to con- If they're not deceived, they don't know how to contend.
They don't know how to contend for the faith or contend for someone who is deceived with the truth.
We've act- like there's a couple of times we've put new words to it or new language to it, but it's really stayed the same.
Uh, we're for our city, has now become we want to transform the world with the truth and the power of Jesus Christ.
Every, uh, I'm gonna say three to six months, um, I'll go on a retreat to go, let's plan and pray and go, go, "Where are we going and how are we going about that?" And it's everything through from, uh, are we reaching a loss? Are we making disciples? What's our services like? Look through all of the things.
Are we financially, uh, viable and going forward? Are we thriving? So we go ahead with all of those things and come back with plans and, and at the end of every calendar year, I kind of have a big one that looks at the f- the forward year.
I- in a world that is swimming, uh, in false truth claims, Jack, um, and, and some of those, some of those false truth claims come from so-called Christians.
Some of them are well-meaning Christians, some of them are just deceptive people.
Paul makes lots of warnings about deceptive people and trickery and cunning craftiness of all sorts of...
So you want to be the kind of person like, uh, Paul said to Timothy, "Be a worker who need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." Which means I can be ashamed if I wrongly or incorrectly divide the word of truth, and that usually comes by deception.
You, the, of the deception is complete when you don't see it, and there's a lot of people that are blinded by the spirit of the world.
And so we've got to be sober and be vigilant because your adversary, the devil, roams around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
What we want at Good Life Church is to build people whom he may not devour, Jack.
And so we went, "What are the things that are taking people down?" And we, we just, we just walked that through to go, look, there are three key areas.
There are three key doctrines, three key religions really, that have massive truth claims that Christians are just getting, um, first of all, getting deceived by, and second of all, they're not knowing how to con- If they're not deceived, they don't know how to contend.
They don't know how to contend for the faith or contend for someone who is deceived with the truth.
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