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A Growing People - My City, My Church (Week 2)

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The sermon starts by introducing the series launched last week, My City, My Church. It frames the series around two aims: a new campus in Northeast Midland and the church's fall financial commitments. The preacher celebrates the Northeast Midland launch and names Pastor Obed and Camila Barrero as leaders with a heart for that part of town. He says the church wants to launch campuses across Midland and Odessa over time. The message notes that this area is the fastest growing part of town. It also says God has already opened a path to buy part of some land there. After that local setup, the sermon turns to Acts 2. The main question becomes how spiritual growth actually happens. A personal story about devoting himself to a competition illustrates what real commitment looks like. The preacher uses that story to show that growth does not happen by accident. He says you do not absorb the Word of God by osmosis. Instead, people have to devote themselves. Growth, he says, often means new practices and old practices going away. It also requires persistence. The sermon resists the easy message of just trying harder and instead asks what catalyzes growth in the first place. Its answer is a move of the Holy Spirit, like the one seen at Pentecost. That means even newer churchgoers may already be experiencing growth as they keep showing up. The preacher encourages listeners to notice their tears, questions, and sense that God is working before they can fully explain it. In the close, he thanks God for a church that has reached the Permian Basin for 43 years and prays for continued help. He ends by asking God to make the church a people that grows in faith and is sent out to reach friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers.

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Acts 2 preaching that ties devotion, Holy Spirit growth, and local mission to ordinary faithfulness.

Acts 2 is used to frame a church vision that moves between spiritual growth and the push for a new campus in Northeast Midland. The central thread stays clear: growth asks for devotion, but the real turning point is the move of the Holy Spirit.

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