Key points
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1Worshiping God while ignoring His Word is not worship — it is rebellion and pride.
“a religion without a relationship with God, which means loving, knowing his love, and following his love, a religion without a relationship is actually rebellion”
“if you say you're gonna worship God without listening to the word of God, you're actually at war with God”
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2Pride is most often rooted in fear — the fear of what trusting God will actually cost us.
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3God's 'judgment' at Babel was an act of grace, forcing obedience to redirect humanity toward His redemptive plan through Abraham and ultimately Jesus.
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4Jesus calls His followers to give up their own way, take up their cross, and follow Him — there is real life on the other side of what looks hard.
“You can have your way or you can have Yahweh”
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5Without a God-centered moral foundation, individuals and societies collapse into either anarchy or authoritarianism.
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6Our identities are not found in possessions, roles, or sexuality — God has already told us who we are and what we are built for.
“every seat has a person sitting in it. And every person has a story”
“not my will, thy will be done”
A story from life
Pastor's wife recounts how his late mother would allow herself to feel the grief of a hard moment, then get up and do what needed to be done
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7The church's mission — and every believer's personal mission — is to scatter, share the gospel, and make disciples, not merely gather under a tower.
“Pride builds towers, humility takes up a cross”
Application
Pastor Bill's call is direct: stop building towers — religious activity, personal empires, or identity projects designed to avoid doing what God actually said. The first step is honesty. Like Jesus in Gethsemane, admit out loud if you're afraid, frustrated, or just don't want to obey. Sit in that for a moment. Then choose humility. Concretely, that means examining whether your time and money are invested in making disciples, not just attending services. It means trusting God with the things that feel most like your identity — your security, your relationships, your sexuality. And it means saying, with Jesus, 'not my will, but Yours' — because on the other side of the hard thing God is asking is the real life He built you for.
