Gavin Lubbe - The Main Thing Is To Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing

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If you go to church and all you get is a sermon, you've never met God—do you want to know Him more?

The episode is a sermon by Pastor Gavin Lubbe at Living Faith Church, focusing on maintaining Jesus as the central priority in Christian life. He opens by questioning listeners' daily experience of God, urging a move beyond theoretical belief to personal encounter. Lubbe introduces Stephen Covey's maxim 'the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing' to frame the discussion. He identifies Jesus as the main thing, referencing John 14:6 where Jesus says 'I am the way, the truth, and the life.' The sermon uses the Old Testament tabernacle—with its outer court, holy place, and holy of holies—as an analogy for spiritual progression, linking it to Jesus' roles. Lubbe explains that knowing God is experiential, involving His life within believers, while encountering God involves His corporate presence in gatherings. He contrasts understanding God through knowledge versus knowing God through experience, sharing a personal story about his son trying coffee in Rome to illustrate the difference. The speaker warns against focusing on denominations or good works instead of Jesus, emphasizing that holiness comes from God's nature, not moral actions. He distinguishes between the written Word of God as a menu and the living Word as transformative life within. Lubbe discusses spiritual growth engines from Ephesians 2:8—grace as God's provision and faith as engagement—and encourages childlike reliance on God. The sermon concludes with an altar call for decisions about relationship with God, including prayer for new believers.

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A sermon about faith moving from religious theory into a life shaped by God's presence, righteousness, and renewal.

Living Faith Church frames faith as lived contact with God, not an idea left inside church language. The message presses toward knowing, feeling, experiencing, and being led by God, then ties that movement to divine life, love, righteousness, and renewal.

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You want faith to feel like a daily encounter with God, not a theory from a sermon.

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