Gateway Church - MO

Listen in on the culmination of this two-week series about what type of church God calls us to be.

Between the three archetypes of churches, these two are not what you are wanting to be! Listen in this week as Pastor Scott W. clues us in on how to identify if we are either caretakers or undertakers and how to avoid their fate!

Have you ever been given a job to do, but you didn’t have the strength to do it? At work, at school, in life in general that’s a tough reality to face. But it’s not new. In the book of Acts, we see that Jesus gave His followers a mission they could never fulfill in their own strength. But, before He sent them out, He promised them power through the Holy Spirit. Pentecost is the moment that promise was fulfilled, and the mission of the church began to move forward. The same Spirit who empowered the first believers still empowers us today to go, to witness, and to tell what God has done. The mission is ours, but the power is His.

Tune in as Pastor Lisa imparts wisdom on the significance of humility in prayer and the ultimate goal of repentance. Through our actions, we have the opportunity to set an example for the world and inspire them to follow Christ.

When Jesus rose from the grave, He didn’t just give His followers hope to hold onto — He gave them a mission to carry. In the final message of our Collision series, we’ll look at the resurrected Jesus’ command to “go and make disciples” and discover that the church was never meant to be a place where people simply gather and consume. We are a people sent under the authority of Jesus to pour His grace, truth, and hope into the world around us. When resurrection collides with the church, fearful — and even comfortable — followers become sent disciple-makers.

In Mark 5, two desperate stories collide with Jesus: a father pleading for his dying daughter and a woman who has suffered for twelve long years. Both are reaching for hope, both are facing situations that seem beyond repair, and both discover that delay does not mean defeat. Despair says brokenness, sickness, waiting, and even death get the final word—but Jesus tells a different story. Through His power, compassion, and ultimately His resurrection, we are reminded that what is broken can be redeemed, what is lost can be restored, and what is dead can live again. Because of Jesus, hope has the final word.

In Luke 7, we meet a woman defined by her past and weighed down by shame—but Jesus meets her with grace, forgiveness, and peace. This powerful message reminds us that Jesus doesn’t ignore our past; He deals with it. At the cross, He paid for sin, and in the resurrection, He proved He has the authority to forgive and restore. Shame tells us to hide, but grace invites us to draw near. And when our shame collides with the grace of Jesus, its power begins to break.

On Easter morning, what looked like the end became the beginning. The cross appeared to signal defeat, the sealed tomb seemed to silence hope, and Saturday felt like God had lost. But early on the first day of the week, everything changed. The resurrection of Jesus is the moment when death itself was confronted and overthrown. Because the tomb is empty, death no longer has the final word—and neither do fear, shame, grief, or failure. Easter is the announcement that hope is alive and that the same power that raised Jesus from the grave can transform our lives today.

Have you ever felt like there’s a distance between you and God? Palm Sunday is the story of Jesus stepping directly into that distance. As crowds welcomed Him into Jerusalem with celebration and hope, Jesus knew the road ahead would lead to the cross—the place where God would close the space between heaven and humanity once and for all. On this Palm Sunday, we’ll reflect on the truth that while we could never bridge the gap between our brokenness and God’s holiness, Jesus came to us and made a way. Through communion, we remember that the cross is more than a moment in history—it is the bridge that brings us back to God.

From the very beginning, God built a rhythm into life: six days of work followed by one day of rest. In the creation story, God sets apart the seventh day as something special—a day meant to restore life rather than drain it. But in a culture that never slows down, most of us have lost that rhythm. We live busy, exhausted lives that rarely pause long enough to enjoy what God has already given us. Sabbath is God’s invitation to step off the treadmill for a day—to stop working, rest deeply, enjoy what is good, and remember that the world keeps turning because God is in control, not us.