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Perhaps you’ve been disenfranchised how you’ve seen the church or Christians or pastors engage with politics. As humans, we’re enamored with “The Empire.” We're attracted to power and influence. We're fascinated with authority and control. Sometimes it’s been used for good and sometimes it's been abused for evil. But what happens when The Empire comes up against The Eternal? It turns out…they’re not even speaking the same language. 

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Jesus used his influence to teach his disciples humility, to teach them how to serve. and to show them what it looks like to put others before yourself. When you leverage your power and influence for the benefit others, you reveal a kind of character that is uncommon in most people. How we use our time, our energy and our gifts reveals a lot about who or what we love.Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com

Have you ever felt stuck? Are you clinging needlessly to the methods and instincts that got you stuck in the first place? Maybe you need someone to nudge you in the right direction… If you're feeling unsatisfied or if you're running on fumes, today’s story is good news for you. The character at the center of the story discovers the truth about her situation. History calls her the woman at the well, and if we listen closely to her interaction with Jesus, I believe that we too might discover a better way.

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What are you going to do with your greatness? What is it going to be used for? How are you going to steward it? Who is going to benefit from it? Why are you striving for it? 

Today we are continuing our series called JESUS: The storyteller, and in this series, the storyteller is the Gospel writer John. Not to be confused with John the Baptist, about whom Matthew writes, “among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist.” John (the Storyteller) writes about him too, and that's where we'll get to see John the Baptist in action. 

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What is it about John 3:16? Some of you know it by heart. Some of you may only know the reference: John 3:16. For others, this is totally new. So let’s just read it together. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. - John 3:16.

By the time we’re done today, I hope you’ll see this passage in a new light. I hope you’ll understand it’s more than a memory verse. You can know what a verse says and not live what it teaches. You can write it on a poster without it being written on your heart. 

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There are four accounts of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, but no one tells the story quite like John. In his up-close and personal account as one of Jesus’ disciples, John gives us an inside look at the most intimate details of Jesus’ ministry. During this series, we’ll uncover stories about Jesus that are only found in the book of John, and we’ll find that John’s story of Jesus intersects with our own story.This series, JESUS, is part of a Five Year Journey we're on as a church, where we'll take a look at the life of Jesus through the eyes of each of the Gospel writers and stories that are unique to those gospels. Then in year five, we'll hear the crossover stories. Each year, this series will lead us up to Easter Sunday, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and his promise of eternal life through him.Download the Study Guide: https://mountaintopchurch.com/events/jesus-john-the-storyteller/ Messages from the previous two years can be found at https://mountaintopchurch.com/watch/Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com

If everyone has to look alike and think exactly alike, and if there’s no room for disagreement or nuance, we might be bowing to the altar of conformity. The next generation does not want a faith that is so narrow that they have to conform to secondary issues. That’s never the way it’s supposed to have been since the beginning, but even Jesus’ disciples struggled with this.

Deconstruction. Many people who once believed and had faith have made a decision not to believe, and often that decision comes as a result of what they have experienced around believing communities. In this series we'll talk about five reasons for deconstruction, and how a firm foundation can keep faith from crumbling.

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Deconstruction. Many people who once believed and had faith have made a decision not to believe, and often that decision comes as a result of what they have experienced around believing communities. In this series we'll talk about five reasons for deconstruction, and how a firm foundation can keep faith from crumbling. 

More and more, American Christians are finding Identity in OPINIONS about politics. Their very sense of self is wrapped up in it. And a younger generation is looking at the Church and walking away from faith because of what they deem Political Idolatry. They don’t see a church that looks different from the world. They see Christians with the same rhetoric as non-believers, the same hostility as partisan politics, and the same talking points as 24-hour news channels.

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Deconstruction. Many people who once believed and had faith have made a decision not to believe, and often that decision comes as a result of what they have experienced around believing communities. In this series we'll talk about five reasons for deconstruction, and how a firm foundation can keep faith from crumbling. 

Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com

Deconstruction. Many people who once believed and had faith have made a decision not to believe, and often that decision comes as a result of what they have experienced around believing communities. In this series we'll talk about five reasons for deconstruction, and how a firm foundation can keep faith from crumbling.  

Learn more about Mountaintop Church at https://mountaintopchurch.com