Is Believing Enough | A Place to Belong 2026
What if simply BELIEVING was enough to make a difference in life?
Doing is what makes all the DIFFERENCE in life.
If we believe all the right things, but don’t do anything with what we believe, our FAITH becomes FEEBLE and FRAIL and FRAGILE.
Jesus’ Invitation: FOLLOW Me, not BELIEVE Me.
God is most HONORED by our LIVING, active, in-spite-of FAITH.
Over the course of a lifetime, what are the key INGREDIENTS of ENDURING faith?
- PRACTICAL Biblical teaching.
- PERSONAL Ministry
- SPIRITUAL Disciplines
- PROVIDENTIAL Relationships
- DEFINING Moments
The Sermon on the Mount:
Matthew 5-7 (pg. 1,501-1,506); Luke 6:17-49 (pg. 1,601-1,602)
Your Heavenly Father is saying: You won’t ever EXPERIENCE Me, until you TRUST Me.
v.24: “Therefore, everyone who HEARS these words of mine and puts them into PRACTICE is like a WISE person who built their HOUSE on the ROCK.”
v.25: “The rain came down, the stream rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; and yet it DID NOT FALL because it had it’s foundation on the ROCK.
v.26: “But everyone who hears these words of mine and does NOT put them into PRACTICE is like a FOOLISH person who built their house on sand.”
Just BELIEVING, can be DECEIVING.
Groups are where we practice our DOING.
Relationships grow from shared VALUES.
You can BELIEVE in Jesus all by yourself.
You can’t FOLLOW Jesus, all by yourself.