Rhythms of Grace: Follow Jesus
Sep 6, 2026 · 26 min · 10 segments
We begin our new series, Rhythms of Grace. In this episode, PJ talks to us from Luke 9:23-26
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Sep 6, 2026 · 26 min · 10 segments
We begin our new series, Rhythms of Grace. In this episode, PJ talks to us from Luke 9:23-26
Who are you becoming? Not, uh, what have you achieved or what do you believe or whether you're a Christian or not, but who are you becoming? Because whether we realize it or not, we are all becoming someone.
We're not static people.
We change as we get older, whether we like it or not.
Um, Hannah kindly pointed out the gray hairs on my head, uh, during the summer.
Um, we're all changing.
We're all becoming something.
So the question is what and who are we becoming? Every day things are shaping and forming us, whether it's the things we watch, the people we spend time with, the things we worry about, the voices we listen to, our habits, the way, uh, we respond to people when we're grumpy, the time we give to things, where we give our money.
All these things are forming and shaping us.
Some of them good, some of them not.
Take things like our phone.
We don't wake up in the morning and make a decision that we're gonna look to it 75 times that day.
But somehow habits form.
We pick it up and look at it and put it down again and again and again, and suddenly those little decisions, one after the other, form habits within us, and they shape us and form who we become.
In the same way, sadly, I can't decide I'm gonna be an amazing pianist and just jump on the piano and perform beauti- music- beautiful music to you.
That would not happen.
Takes time, takes practice, takes day in, day out, practicing the little things, and eventually your fingers get to know what they're meant to do and be- get piece together beautiful piece of music.
Who we're becoming takes time, but we get to be involved of what those input factors are, in a way.
Our vision as a church is to be the heart of Valley Park, filled and alive in God's presence, formed as disciples, and sent with His love.
And this, uh, term we're focusing on that idea of who are we formed as? What does it mean to be formed as disciples? And thinking particularly in our series is titled Rhythms of Grace.
And over the coming months we're thinking about how do we become people more like Jesus? Because Christianity is not simply about believing certain things or turning up at church or knowing knowledge from our Bible.
All those things matter, yet Jesus doesn't say, "Believe in me." As we saw in our passage, He says, "Follow me." Following someone means that we become like them as we walk in their footsteps and are shaped by them.
This term we're thinking about some of the things that, uh, disciples throughout the centuries have done to intentionally form themselves.
They've been called different things, where you might know the phrase spiritual disciplines or, um, practicing the way.
I love this phrase of, uh, rhythms of grace though, 'cause it cuts, I think, to the heart of it.
Things like prayer or silence and solitude or worship or generosity, and they're not an ex- exhaustive list.
Who are you becoming? Not, uh, what have you achieved or what do you believe or whether you're a Christian or not, but who are you becoming? Because whether we realize it or not, we are all becoming someone.
We're not static people.
We change as we get older, whether we like it or not.
Um, Hannah kindly pointed out the gray hairs on my head, uh, during the summer.
Um, we're all changing.
We're all becoming something.
So the question is what and who are we becoming? Every day things are shaping and forming us, whether it's the things we watch, the people we spend time with, the things we worry about, the voices we listen to, our habits, the way, uh, we respond to people when we're grumpy, the time we give to things, where we give our money.
All these things are forming and shaping us.
Some of them good, some of them not.
Take things like our phone.
We don't wake up in the morning and make a decision that we're gonna look to it 75 times that day.
But somehow habits form.
We pick it up and look at it and put it down again and again and again, and suddenly those little decisions, one after the other, form habits within us, and they shape us and form who we become.
In the same way, sadly, I can't decide I'm gonna be an amazing pianist and just jump on the piano and perform beauti- music- beautiful music to you.
That would not happen.
Takes time, takes practice, takes day in, day out, practicing the little things, and eventually your fingers get to know what they're meant to do and be- get piece together beautiful piece of music.
Who we're becoming takes time, but we get to be involved of what those input factors are, in a way.
Our vision as a church is to be the heart of Valley Park, filled and alive in God's presence, formed as disciples, and sent with His love.
And this, uh, term we're focusing on that idea of who are we formed as? What does it mean to be formed as disciples? And thinking particularly in our series is titled Rhythms of Grace.
And over the coming months we're thinking about how do we become people more like Jesus? Because Christianity is not simply about believing certain things or turning up at church or knowing knowledge from our Bible.
All those things matter, yet Jesus doesn't say, "Believe in me." As we saw in our passage, He says, "Follow me." Following someone means that we become like them as we walk in their footsteps and are shaped by them.
This term we're thinking about some of the things that, uh, disciples throughout the centuries have done to intentionally form themselves.
They've been called different things, where you might know the phrase spiritual disciplines or, um, practicing the way.
I love this phrase of, uh, rhythms of grace though, 'cause it cuts, I think, to the heart of it.
Things like prayer or silence and solitude or worship or generosity, and they're not an ex- exhaustive list.
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