Let’s commit to being with Jesus by meeting with his church every week.

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So this last week, if you weren’t here last week, Pastor Joe started us in a new series called The Deeper Life. And he started with a talk that the deeper life is an unhurried life. Who is here to hear that talk? Was it so good or what? Man, it’s so challenging, and in just a minute, I’m going to share what really challenged me from that talk.

But the next five weeks, we’re continuing this series called The Deeper life. And we’re going over five things that will help us experience the deeper life, and these five things are all things that we find the earliest disciples of Jesus doing. These five things will help us enter just like those earliest disciples did into the life that Jesus wants for us, the deeper life.

So these five things are called meet, seek, serve, give, and share. Meet, seek, serve, give, and share. So meet together in church and in groups to meet with God. We seek God daily in prayer, Bible, and journal. We serve just like Jesus came to serve. We give our lives away just like Jesus gave his life away. And then we share the good news just like the first disciples did. They were always sharing the good news. So these five things will help us experience the deeper life that Jesus has for us.

When people come and ask about membership at Life Center, they say, “How? How do I become a member here at Life Center?” We say, “Well, we don’t have formal membership, but we have functional membership.” If you’re doing these five things, if you’re meeting, seeking, serving, giving, and sharing, you’re a functional member, a functional owner here at Life Center. But I want to challenge you.

You can do all of these things, all five of these things and still not experience the deeper life. You’re like, “Why did you waste your intro talking about them then?” Here’s why I think so often we’re focused on what we’re doing, but God is more focused on our being. We’re so focused on what we’re doing going from one thing to the next, we’re thinking about meeting and seeking and serving and giving and sharing. And we forget that God is more focused on who we’re becoming rather what we’re doing because what we’re doing is an overflow of who we are becoming.

See, out of the overflow of your heart, the mouth speaks. And we’re supposed to guard our heart. For everything we do flows from it. See, God is concerned, is most focused on who you are becoming, not what you’re doing because what you’re doing is an overflow of who you’re becoming.

So I have a question, who are you becoming? We can easily name what we’re doing, right? Oh, I’m doing these things today. But who are you becoming today? You can name what you’re doing this year. I’m doing these things this year. I’ve got this planned. It’s on my schedule. But who are you becoming this year? What is your being? Where are you moving towards?

So Pastor Joe talked about the unhurried life, and I hope that as a church we’re becoming more unhurried. That we’re able to slow down and be with Jesus. But here’s the thing that really stuck out to me. So he talked about how you can slow down your life, you can even be laying on the couch doing nothing and still your internal RPMs are high. It’s like you’re revving your internal engine. Did anyone hear him when he said that?

When Pastor Joe said that, it’s like the holy spirit punched me in the face and was like, “Wake up, bro.” Because that was the reality for me. When he showed me that I’m almost always revving my internal RPMs, then I’m thinking about what I’m going to do, the next thing. I could be in a conversation with somebody, and I’m thinking about what I’d rather be