Costly Discipleship

Pastor Clayton York · Aug 14, 2022

Drawing from Galatians 6 and Psalm 133, Pastor Clayton York argues that authentic biblical community is both essential to God's design for human flourishing and one of the hardest things to sustain. The enemy works to pull us away from community through lies — convincing us we are fine on our own and that real community shouldn't involve struggle. Yet Scripture, the example of Jesus, and the witness of Paul all show that deep, costly, messy community is exactly where God does His most formative work in us and displays Christ most clearly to the world.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jan 27, 2020

In week three of the 'Won't You Be My Neighbor' series, Pastor Daniel argues that the greatest obstacle to loving our neighbors is not lack of opportunity but our unwillingness to say yes when those opportunities feel inconvenient, disruptive, or expensive. Drawing from the parable of the good Samaritan and two healings in Luke 5, he shows that Jesus modeled exactly this kind of costly, interruptive love — and calls every believer to follow suit, trusting that a life surrendered to divine interruptions yields a harvest of blessing beyond anything we could arrange for ourselves.

Pastor Linn Winters · Jun 4, 2018

Pastor Linn Winters draws from Luke 5 to press a crucial distinction: being a Christian (a label) versus being a follower of Jesus Christ (a direction and a commitment). Using the story of Simon Peter's miraculous catch of fish, he shows that following Jesus will always feel like fishing in the middle of the day — risky, sacrificial, and counterintuitive. True followers are those who, having seen Jesus' faithfulness, respond to His invitations not because they fully understand them, but because of who He is. The sermon calls every believer to move past selective obedience and endless wrestling with God, and to say: 'If anybody else were asking, I wouldn't do it — but because it's You, I'm in.'