Urgent sermons for active discipleship.
3C Church is a sermon feed built around urgent, scripture-heavy preaching from the 3C Live Experience. Recent messages press the commission, personal obedience, worship, submission, and the claim that every Christian carries leadership responsibility.
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3C Church presents Christian sermons from the 3C Live Experience with the momentum of a live pulpit. It moves fast. The messages speak to a congregation that is expected to answer, repeat, receive correction, and act. Recent episodes are dominated by The Leader Within, a series built on Matthew 28 and the claim that Jesus' final command defines the church's purpose. The repeated refrain is that every Christian is a leader. Leadership here does not mean status. It means taking responsibility, watching over others, making disciples, submitting to Christ's authority, and turning belief into obedience. The sermons contrast active discipleship with lighter forms of religion: gathering crowds, building brands, hosting events, taking notes, saying amen, and still failing to do the Word. That contrast gives the show much of its urgency. It is not interested in detached study. It wants doctrine to become conduct. One episode on obedience uses the rich ruler's question about eternal life to challenge listeners who want salvation without following Christ. Another on submission argues that authority flows through alignment, using the image of a police uniform that only carries power in the right jurisdiction. The worship message returns to the disciples before the risen Jesus, including their worship and their doubt, then keeps pressing the commission to make disciples of all nations. Easter teaching in The Risen King widens the frame, moving from the cross and burial to resurrection, victory, sinlessness, and the believer as a new creation. Gather To Grow opens with fear, timidity, discipline, power, love, and a sound mind. The show can be warm. It can also be severe. A tribute service for Kumo Matule brings grief and honor into the feed, reflecting on the impact of a young person who served the Lord. Across the sample, scripture is quoted rapidly and returned to repeatedly, while ordinary analogies make the theological point practical. The best fit is for listeners who want forceful Christian preaching with clear imperatives, not conversational interviews or academic theology.
Made for: For Christians who want high-energy sermon teaching that pushes belief toward obedience, service, worship, and disciple-making. It suits listeners comfortable with direct correction, repeated scripture, and a live church cadence.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its insistent Matthew 28 focus: discipleship is treated as the church's central assignment and every believer as responsible for others. Its live-service rhythm gives the teaching a pressing, call-and-response intensity.
Pastor Bert Pretorius, with his wife Charné are the founding pastors of 3C Church - a dynamic, multi-racial, multi-site, vibrant and fast-growing church with over 30,000 members in the City of Tshwane, South Africa. The ministry has since expanded into multiple cities as well. Bert and Charné are blessed, with sons, Pearson, Damian and Tristan, and their daughters Caitlyn, Jordan and Madison. And grand-children Nayo, Josiah-Bert, Imani and Elijah.Their love for God and His people are evidenced in the many welfare and social development projects including the Compassion for Children project feeding 6,500 underprivileged children every week day.Their television program “3C Live” is broadcast o…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Energetic church preaching turns biblical teaching on authority, resurrection, and discipleship into direct calls for obedience and changed priorities.
3C Church carries the momentum of a live service into audio, moving from congregational participation to emphatic preaching and a closing invitation to faith.
When family drops by on Sunday, this pulpit wants your church plans to stand firm.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A forceful sermon makes obedience the visible cost of following Jesus.
Obedience sits at the center of this PlayNext single-episode review, framed as the hinge between calling and Christian leadership. The message works from Matthew 28:16-20, holding together disciple-making, baptism, and teaching obedience, then widens the point: every Christian…
A vigorous Easter sermon connecting Christ's sinlessness and resurrection with Christian identity, endurance and everyday life.
This Easter sermon treats resurrection as the ground of a changed life. After communal prayer, it moves through Christ's death, burial and resurrection, arguing that believers become new people.
A forceful sermon ties spiritual authority to obedience, submission, and responsibility.
The review presents leadership as a Christian responsibility rooted in care for one another's souls, not in titles or formal appointment. It follows the sermon through Hebrews 10:24, Matthew 28, Matthew 10, and Luke 10, drawing out how Jesus' command and delegated power shape…
An urgent sermon linking spiritual renewal, communion and the cross to a life of service.
This sermon treats putting God first as a call to renewal, not a neat spiritual resolution. Moving through prayer, the need for "fresh oil," communion, forgiveness and the cross, the preacher makes service to others part of Christian purpose.
A direct sermon on putting God first through Sunday worship, personal responsibility, and visible transformation.
God 1st frames putting God first as something visible and practiced, not merely held as a private intention. The message moves from the parable of the ten virgins to the warning against depending on someone else's oil, pressing each believer to take responsibility for fresh oil…
A charged live sermon moves from embodied communal praise to spiritual victory rooted in Jesus' sacrifice.
A live church service sets the episode's pulse early, presenting faith as something shared and physical: clapping, raised hands, turning, linked arms, movement, and praise all come before the sermon begins.
A forceful sermon on how submission places Christian leadership under godly authority.
The Leader Within treats leadership as a spiritual practice rooted in responsibility, then narrows its focus to the posture that makes such leadership possible: submission.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Bert Pretorius continues the series 'The Leader Within' with a sermon on submission as the third element of the Great Commission.
Pastor Bert Pretorius delivers a sermon titled 'Redeemed by the Blood of Jesus' at 3C Church.
A sermon on the Great Commission emphasizing that every Christian is a leader called to make disciples through obedience to Jesus' commands.
A sermon celebrating Easter, emphasizing Jesus' resurrection and the victory it brings to all areas of life.
A sermon on biblical leadership, emphasizing submission and taking responsibility as a leader.
A church service celebrating the life of 16-year-old Kumo Matule, highlighting her impact as a devoted believer.
A sermon on the Great Commission, emphasizing that every Christian is a leader called to make disciples and watch over others.
A sermon on Matthew 28:16-20, emphasizing the Great Commission and the call to make disciples.
A sermon emphasizing the importance of being a doer of God's word, using the parable of the wise and foolish builders from Matthew 7.
A pastor delivers a sermon on overcoming fear with God's spirit of power, love, and a sound mind, encouraging believers to gather and grow in faith.
Communion is not a ritual; it is "a demonstration of the power of God."
3C Church frames "God first" through Matthew 6:33, Acts 2:42, and the call for "fresh oil" in 2026.
A sermon on being filled with the Spirit and imitating God by walking in love, light, and wisdom from Ephesians chapter 5.
A sermon on finding peace with God through faith in Jesus Christ, based on Romans 5:1.