When God says no, that no is wrapped with love and wisdom and His knowledge of what’s best for us and we can trust Him, that He has something better in mind for us. And that kind of trust is believing for impact too.

The impact of community is accumulative. It’s not what you do. It’s not what I do. It’s not what the person next to us does. The impact is when you add up all those things together that the gospel ball gets moved forward. That’s the impact of community!

Jesus is the best king and obeying Jesus leads to the best life. To the life that stands when storms come. To the life that isn’t barren and empty and meaningless. To the life that isn’t demolished, the life that doesn’t have nothing to show for it, the life that has nothing left that remains. Jesus came to give us life and that more abundantly.

The good news of the kingdom is that all who believe in Jesus and place their trust in him are freed from Satan’s grip, delivered from his dark, miserable, hellish domain, and transferred to the kingdom of the Son God loves.

Gospel impact isn’t just something God works through us, gospel impact is also something God works in us. Impact needs to flow outwardly and inwardly if we’re going to be healthy believers.

Impact is defined as the act or force of one thing hitting another, or a powerful influence or effect. The book of Acts is all about impact! In fact the impact of the gospel, and the Spirit, working through the church is so great that even their enemies had to admit they were turning the world upside down!

The trajectory of our lives have been affected so much more than we can even imagine by the impact others have had on us, and we have affected the trajectory of others in ways we may not even realize.

Jesus took our sin upon himself, and he gave us his precious Holy Spirit to empower us say no to sin and to live unto God. Jesus lived a scandal-filled life so that we might live a Spirit-filled life.

Jesus came not only to save our souls, he came to save our stories. Let’s believe Jesus, ask God to fill us with the Holy Spirit, and live our stories to the glory of God!