Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, ‘Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.’

-Matthew 15:22

Jesus did not answer a word.

-Matthew 15:23a

So, his disciples came to him and urged him, ‘Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.’

-Matthew 15:23b

He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.’

-Matthew 15:24

The woman came and knelt before him. ‘Lord, help me!’ she said.

-Matthew 15:25

He replied, ‘It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.’

-Matthew 15:26

‘Yes it is, Lord,’ she said. ‘Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.’ Then Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.’ And her daughter was healed at that moment.

-Matthew 15:27-28

  

Who are the hippies of our day?

  

The psychedelic experience is a confrontation with the divine. It is a spiritual awakening. You come back and define God. You are reborn.

-Jesus Revolution, Film 2023

The truth is silent. It’s the lies that are always loud.

  

Jesus never went soft on sin. He always went hard on self-righteousness. He went overboard to engage the unrighteous!

Christianity is an invitation to the broken, is it not?

  

‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.’

-Matthew 11:28

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

-Luke 19:10

On hearing this, Jesus said to them, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.’

-Mark 2:17

  

How shall they hear without a preacher?

  

I know we must seem pretty strange to you. But if you look a little deeper, with love, you will see a bunch of kids who are searching for all the right things, just in the wrong places. They are sheep without a shepherd chasing hard after the lies and the trouble is, you people reject them. So, I ask you Pastor, How can they believe in the One whom they have not heard? We can only walk through doors open to us, and, your church, well, that’s a door that is shut.

-Jesus Revolution, Film 2023

This place, it is yours. If you feel you’re an outcast, join us here. If you feel misunderstood and judged, this is where you belong. If you feel ashamed, trapped, here you will find forgiveness. The door is open all the time for you.

-Pastor Chuck Smith, Jesus Revolution, Film 2023

Jesus is alive and well living in the radical spiritual fervor of a growing number of young Americans who have proclaimed an extraordinary religious revolution in His name.

-Time Magazine, 1971

  

1. We will not water down the gospel so as not to offend.

  

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

-Philippians 3:12-14

We will never compromise the truth of scripture because therein lies eternal and abundant life.

   

2. We will not neglect to teach what is appropriate in the house of the Lord.

  

  

3. Our services will not cater to the lowest common denominator.

  

“This place, it is yours. If you feel you’re an outcast, join us here. If you feel misunderstood and judged, this is where you belong. If you feel ashamed, trapped, here you will find forgiveness. The door is open all the time for you.”

-Pastor Chuck Smith, Jesus Revolution, Film 2023

  

And may they say about us:

Jesus is alive and well living in the radical spiritual fervor of a growing number of young Americans who have proclaimed an extraordinary religious revolution in His name.

-Time Magazine, 1971

  

  

  

  

  

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