Pastor Jesse Lockhart preached from Acts 20 about Eutychus falling from the window, using that moment as a warning for a church age content to live on the edge—half in, half out—close enough to feel religious but far enough to keep hold of the world, and he traced that pattern through Scripture from the sons of the prophets who stopped at the riverbank to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half‑Manasseh who chose comfort over Canaan, showing how people lose spiritual energy, lose conviction, and eventually fall because more of them is hanging outside than inside. He pressed hard on the modern church’s drift toward convenience—Sunday‑only faith, Wednesday nights abandoned, families raising children on everything but God—and reminded us that the problem isn’t the government or the schools but homes that have settled for the edge instead of crossing over. With urgency he called the church to quit hiding little sins in their pockets, quit straddling the fence, quit waiting for a push to fall out, and instead step fully into the life God intended, because there is “much more” on the other side for anyone willing to leave the edge and go all the way with Him.

Fairview Union Church — Whitwell, Tennessee