When was the last time you felt the weight of lost souls that will be separated from God? Do you yearn for others to know Christ? Do you long to tell others about the greatest love you have ever found? Unfortunately, if we're honest, the answer is no most days. Most days we're content to rejoice in our own salvation and pray that Jesus would return, but what Pastor Leonce reminds us of is that when Jesus returns triumphant and Christians enjoy eternity with him, there will be others who will spend eternity separated from him. Pray. Pray that the Holy Spirit would open eyes as believers share the gospel, that God would save, that Jesus would become real and satisfying.

(2 Peter 3:1-10)

Jesus so thoroughly loves the whore and hypocrite that he is filled on God's will. In John 4 he says that his nourishment, his food, is to do the will of the father. God's will is that all the whores and hypocrites would be filled on living water instead of returning to broken cisterns and empty water buckets. As followers of Jesus we can draw near to him and be filled with God's love and satisfied by his mission. Based on this truth, we ought to release ourselves from the pressure of "closing the deal" with unbelievers. Christians don't save people, the Holy Spirit does. Also, as a result of this truth, we should be excited to share the gospel we've received and the love we've found in Jesus.

We have a tendency to draw spiritual water from other sources besides Christ. This week, Pastor Leonce Crump investigates the narrative of John 4:27-30; 39-42 in which Jesus calls us to put down our water buckets and drink deeply from the overflowing fountain of God's love. This love, this otherworldly, magnanimous love, looks at us in our deepest despair and our most hideous sin and says, "You are mine! I still choose you!" Our response then should be to drop our buckets and run and tell our townspeople about the man Jesus Christ who can tell us everything we've ever done and yet loves us still.

We all have a thirst inside of us that is unquenchable apart from Jesus. Yet we all drink from broken cisterns that will never satisfy. We continue to look for natural solutions to our supernatural problem. Listen as Pastor Leonce teaches on John 4:1-26, the story of the woman at the well, and ask yourself if you have truly received the living water that is offered in Christ. And if so, why do you not drink deeply from it?

When Abraham was told by God to go, he did not ask "where." He simply left to find a city whose architect and builder was God. The renewal of Atlanta depends on us, believers of Jesus, responding to the call of God to go and make disciples. It is by faith in Jesus that a city is renewed. It is by receiving the gift of faith and new life in Christ that we are able to create culture and redeem what is broken in Atlanta. Listen as Pastor Leonce challenges us to make new God's city by starting with our faith in Christ.

Do you believe that the Church is the hope of the world? Do you believe that the church is the only eternal institution that begins in this lifetime and carries over into the next? Do you believe, as history shows us, that where vital, Jesus-centered, healthy churches exist, schools, hospitals, social improvements, and advances in civilization have followed? Listen as Pastor Leonce Crump II challenges us to live lives for the multiplication of His church and the making of disciples.

Renovation’s vision is "To make Atlanta a great city for all people through a holistic gospel movement, making beautiful what is broken." Renovation’s mission is "To make known the glory of God in the city through diverse communities of disciples." All of creation has one purpose: to make known the glory of God. He is the Lord, that is His name, his glory he gives to no other. But what is our role in that? Why were we created? How do God's glory and our existence intersect? Listen as Pastor Leonce Crump reminds us of the reason we were made and the end for which the entire world was created: the glory of God.