You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come.
Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.
When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.
There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.
A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.
