Welcome to Wyldfyre Church!

WHAT DO WE MISS IN LIFE IF WE MISS “LIFE?”

"What about me?" That's my phrase. That's my world. That's our world. The world we live in. The world revolves around...who? My pursuit is me. Your pursuit is you. But God calls for us to give up our personal pursuit for a greater pursuit-an eternal pursuit. That deeply satisfies. That deeply fills. A personal pursuit of a person... His Son Jesus Christ. 

We exist because of Jesus Christ. We live because of Jesus Christ. We are created

by Jesus Christ. And we have eternal life because of Jesus Christ. The Father has

lifted up and glorified His Son...on the cross, His resurrection, and His imminent

return. So we too lift up and glorify His Son in everything we do, that we might be

fully satisfied in Him.

Religion calls for us to do...and we do to become perfect. And yet the pursuit of

perfection leaves us...on a never-ending pursuit of perfection. And our discovery?

We are imperfect...and we will always be imperfect.

Jesus calls for us to pursue Him. On the daily. Hourly. The moment by moment. In

the good times and the bad times. In the daylight and the night. It is in the pursuit

of Jesus that we become like Him, love Him, and live for Him. It is in our pursuit of

Him that His perfection is seen in us and covers us.

Our pursuit of Jesus is the path to become who we were created to be.

--John 12:32

--Philippians 1:21

--Philippians 3:7-14

--I Corinthians 2:2

THE WORD OF GOD ... GIVEN TO CHANGE THE WORLD ... GIVEN

TO GIVE FAITH, HOPE & LOVE ... FOR YOU ... FOREVER

Our source of Truth comes from the Word of God. We teach it, we live it, and we

are changed by it. Our desire is for the Word of God to be interwoven into the very

fabric of our souls—that we would read it, study it, memorize it, wrestle with it, rely

on it, hold onto it, and survive and thrive by it.

Because the Bible is true in everything that it teaches...and it is true in everything

that it touches. And it touches everything in everyone’s life for their whole life.

From the very beginning, the Word of God spoke worlds into existence: “Let there

be light.” And it spoke your world and my world into existence. From our first day

until our last day...and beyond...the Word of God is relevant in all things of life. It

feeds the hungry, it heals the sick, and it raises the dead. The Word of God brings

life.

As the Apostle Paul states, the Bible is “useful for teaching, correcting, rebuking, and

training in righteousness so that the man of God might be thoroughly equipped for

every good work” and that it is “able to make you wise for salvation through faith in

Christ Jesus.” (II Timothy 3:16, 15)

How do we live in this world? How do we know right from wrong? How do we get

from day to night? From summer to summer? How do we know we are forgiven?

How do we forgive? How do we live? Survive? Thrive? And stay alive? By knowing

and living by God’s Word...

God’s Word is forever eternal...and it is final.

--Psalm 119:89

--Psalm 119:11

--Psalm 19:7

--Hebrews 4:12-14

--James 1:22-25

--II Timothy 3:15, 16

COMMUNITY ... COMING TOGETHER ... COMMUNING TOGETHER ...

FOR A COMMON MISSION & A COMMON PURPOSE ... AND

FOLLOW AFTER AN UN-COMMON REDEEMER

God created from relationship for relationship. For community. A deeply

rooted community. Deeply rooted in Him. A spiritual community on a journey

coming alongside to help one another grow in our relationship with God and with

one another. To journey with us through life’s lows...and life’s highs.

Yet today, more than ever, we are losing community. We are with

people, and yet alone. We are in a crowd without community. We are suffering a

loss of how to create community and a loss of how to relate to community.

Our human tendency leans toward selfishness and leads toward isolation and

withdrawal. The world opens those doors and welcomes us in. Comparisons.

Criticisms. Divisions. Retreat.

A spiritual community invites us toward selflessness and sacrifice. Wholeness. Unity.

Health of heart and soul. Strength and hope.

A spiritual community that journeys alongside of one another as we journey

alongside our Lord and Savior.

We long for healthy relationships. Healthy communication. And healthy

expectations. We long to be loved and accepted for who we are...and loved so much

that we refuse to allow one another to remain who we are.

What would community look like without truth? What would truth look like without

community? And what would community look like without grace?

Can we be authentic? Can we be raw? Can we be “rawthentic?” And trust those we

invite into our lives to help us become the very best version of ourselves? Can we

allow ourselves to be held accountable for who we are? What we say? What we do?

Or do we fear judgment? Do we hope for love? Do we find ourselves in a community

overflowing with grace because we all are human and we all struggle and we all

mess up? Are we strong enough—and weak enough—to ask for help? To receive

help? To offer help? Are we strong enough to be vulnerable...so that relationships

and community are rooted through sacrifice, trust, perseverance, and prayer?

So that our community becomes all that it was created to be?

--Hebrews 10:25

--Colossians 3:12-14

--Ephesians 4:32

--I Corinthians 12:27

--II Timothy 2:22-24

WE BECOME ... WHO WE ARE CREATED TO BECOME ... BY

HELPING OTHERS BECOME ... WHO THEY WERE CREATED TO

BECOME ...

Some might call us human-beings. Some might call us human-doings. But are we not

called to be human-becomings? Who we are today isn’t who we were yesterday.

Who we are today isn’t who we will be tomorrow.

Life happens. Circumstances change. Loss steals. How will we respond?

Jesus’ final words in the Gospel of Matthew call us to a life of discipling...and

discipleship. Discipling, mentoring, coaching. We are to help people help people by

coming alongside and caring for people. To disciple those who are discipling others

to disciple others... Crafting. Shaping. Loving. Masterpiecing the scattered pieces into

a masterpiece. And to love, enjoy, and thrill over the process of becoming.

Because every day is the first day of the rest of our lives. Who do I want to become?

Today? Tomorrow? Who does God want me to become? Who does God want me to

help become?

And how do we best become? By helping others become...and that is what God is

doing in our lives today! Becoming...

--Matthew 28:19, 20

--Philippians 1:8

--Ephesians 2:10

--Ephesians 4:22-24

--Romans 12:1, 2

--II Timothy 2:15

NEVER STOP REACHING THIS SIDE OF ETERNITY ... IT’S WHO WE

ARE & WHO WE ARE CREATED TO BE ... BECAUSE WHEN YOU

TAKE AWAY THE “RE,” ALL YOU HAVE LEFT IS THE ACHING ...

God created humanity to have a relationship with humanity. From Genesis to

Revelation God is seeking out and restoring humanity to Himself in His Great Rescue.

God the Father sent and sacrificed His Son, Jesus, to restore that broken relationship

with you and me. And God does the impossible—the miraculous—to crash into our

worlds—to restore you and me to Him. God found you by sending others to you.

And He wants to use you and me to restore those who are broken, hurting,

doubting, and far from Him. Restore them to Him...through caring, loving, & sharing

His love for them.

What are your limitations? What are your fears? What holds you back? Death

couldn’t stop Jesus from reaching you. And it didn’t stop others from reaching out to

you. What is keeping you from reaching those around you? And whose life will be

reached because of your relentless pursuit of them?

--Luke 15

--Luke 19:10

--Mark 2:17

--John 3:16-18

THERE IS A STORY OF RESTORING WAITING TO HAPPEN IN ALL

OF US ... WILL YOU LET YOUR STORY OF RESTORING BE TOLD?

Failure to fail spells failure. Victory results from failure. Failure can be costly.

Yet still we fail. We all fail. But what do we miss without failure?

The story of restoring is the tale of victory. Over failure. The triumph of

forgiveness. The freedom from guilt and the celebration from shame.

Despite my failures and my faults, I am loved. I am forgiven. And I am given a

second-chance. Despite your failures and your faults, you are loved. You are

forgiven. And you are given a second-chance. Our failures and our faults don’t

define us. And they are not a surprise to God even though they may be a surprise to

those around us.

But restoring doesn’t come without repentance. Restoring doesn’t come without

recognizing our wrongs. Restoring doesn’t come without asking for help. Humility.

Submission. Trust. And a chance to journey in a new direction.

We seek to be restored. And we help those seeking to be restored. That is the

essence of what God is doing in us and through us. Restoring one another to

wholeness and health...with one another. And with God.

The story of restoring is the story of God our Father defining our lives and our

futures and our forevers...because of His forgiveness for us.

--Matthew 5:23-26

--Matthew 18:15-18

--II Corinthians 2:5-11

--II Corinthians 7:10, 11

--Galatians 6:1, 2

WHY ARE WE ALIVE ... AND WHO GIVES US LIFE ... THAT WE MAY

BE FILLED & FULLY ALIVE?

Many live life without “Life.” Is it any wonder we don’t feel more fully alive? Jesus

proclaimed, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” He promised, “I have come that

you might have life, and life to the full.”

We all live for something. Is what we are living for what we are willing to die for?

And is what we are living for and willing to die for...has it given up its life for you? For

me? How does what we are living for give us life beyond our death?

Jesus—eternal “Life.” How do we miss Jesus? We are passion-filled because of the

One who fills...and fills to the full! If we are not filled by Him, then what “life” are we

filled by?

The world promises us life, but gives death instead. “I need more.” “Do more!” “You

are not enough.” Discouragement. Anxiety. Fear. Depression. Exhaustion.

Jesus gives life. Hope. Peace. Joy. Love. Truth. Forgiveness. Are we where we can

experience Him...and enjoy Him...notice Him...and aware of Him? What distracts us?

What demands pull on us? What emergencies and urgencies deflate us? Fatigue us?

Exhaust us? What noise and noises shout at us and shout us down?

We live in an age of image and indifference. Where indifference is image. And where

we want our perceived reality to be our reality. A false-self with a false-identity

promising only a false-future. Hollow. Shallow. Surface-deep. No sacrifice, no risk,

and no great reward.

Can I be where I am? Can you be where you are? Fully present. And aware of where

you are. In His Presence. Always and all the time. Overflowing with praise and

thanksgiving? And can I be—can you be—fully present and overflowing with those

you love and enjoy? Fully? And fully filled?

And again, rediscover life. Love. Passion. Filled...and full.

--John 10:10

--John 14:6

--Galatians 5:16-25

--Psalm 73:25, 26

--Psalm 84

OUR PURPOSE—YOUR PURPOSE—CAME INTO BEING ... BEFORE

YOU CAME INTO BEING ... SO FIND IT! CAPTURE IT! AND FULFILL

IT!

We are created for relationship with God and others and crafted for a purpose.

Have we captured the purpose for which we were designed for? Do we live on

purpose because we were created on purpose for a purpose... “for such a time as

this (Esther 4:14)?”

You are not an experiment or an accident. And neither is your purpose. We were

put on this earth for a reason. Not just for the now, but for eternity. How will you

change this world? How are you changing your world?

What captures your heart? What and who do you sacrifice for? What eternal impact

do you live for? What and who does your prayer life revolve around?

Your purpose. Search for it. Pray over it. Pursue it. And capture it!

--Esther

--Psalm 37:4

--Psalm 139:13-16

--Romans 12:3-8

--Philippians 1:6

--Ephesians 2:8-10

--I Corinthians 12:4-26

WHAT IF LIFE WAS FOUND IN FOLLOWING WHERE “LIFE” LED

AND NOT WHERE MY LIFE WANTED TO LEAD?

We say we believe in God...but what about God do we say we believe in? A God who

keeps us comfortable, safe, and happy? Or do we believe in this God who calls us to

walk on water, raise the dead, and light the fire in the wild?

Are we listening for His voice? Do we hear His call? When He says your name and

calls for you to carry His flame? Do we only discover God in His Word—or also

discover God in our obedience to His Word? To His call? To the spiritual adventure

before us all? In sacrifice? In the dark? In our pain?

Obedience. The “make” and the “break...” Do I trust Him to obey Him & follow Him?

Has my spiritual life grown blah, neutral? Does it taste like vanilla? Jesus died and

rose again not to give us blah and neutral, but to bring us to life—and abundant life.

“Life-Life!” And to bring this life into this world. To do so we are called to obey. And

to trust. Will we? Where is He sending you to bring this LIFE? The spiritual

adventure. Where will He lead you next? What will He lead you to do next? Because

the only way you bring this LIFE is by leaning into His LIFE and going where He leads.

Are you ready?

--Jonah

--II Corinthians 6:3-10

--James 2:14-19

TO BE ... THE LIGHT IN THE DARK OF NIGHT ... AND DESIRE THE

FIRE THAT BLAZES SO BRIGHT

A Fyre in the Wyld...where our core values, community, and ministry are called. To a

world in the wild where the Gospel is desperately desired and desperately desired to

be found to be true. Where the Gospel is sent to ignite the night.

A Fyre in the Wyld...lit in a world without light and without life. A world where the

world seeks to escape and hide. A world where the world is overcome by fear,

anxiety, worry, and dread. A world of uncertainty and no eternity. A world where

hope is sought, healthy relationships dreamed of, and wholeness longed for.

The Fyre in the Wyld...it burns for the younger generation who are without God and

living for another god; for those who have experienced pain and loss in life and are

hurting to understand God; for those who have lived and wondered and even

wandered...and still have questions about God; for those whose life is nearing the

end and their heart has not yet opened. And this fire continues to grow and spread,

to offer light and warmth...to call, invite, and welcome.

In the wild. A world where ministry isn’t always safe and ministry is never mild. But it

is who we are and where we are called—a Fyre in the Wyld.

--Acts 1:8

--Acts 20:23, 24

--Ephesians 5:8-16

--Ephesians 6:19-20