Let your light shine Day 2

Your faith might be strong, but is it insulated? Josh opens Tuesday with a challenge that hits close to home: we’ve learned how to live, work, eat, and even “do church” inside a Christian bubble that keeps us safe from messy people and messy problems. The result is subtle but serious. We start believing the goal is to protect our comfort instead of carrying hope into places that actually need it. 

We anchor the conversation in Mark 2, where Jesus tells the Pharisees he came for the sick, not the well. That one line exposes how easy it is for the modern church to perfect the very pattern Jesus avoided: building a subculture designed to serve the already well. Josh pushes us to rethink what we’ve normalized, from swapping churches the moment we feel offended to expecting outsiders to find their way in without us ever stepping out. 

From there, we get painfully practical. Stepping into darkness costs time, comfort, reputation, and energy, but that cost is part of the call. The incarnation proves God doesn’t wait at a distance. He comes near. So we name “the one thing” we’ve avoided: the phone call we keep putting off, the conversation in the break room we keep dodging, the hard moment at home where we bring light instead of staying quiet. 

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Transcript

Tuesday Greeting And Setup

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Happy Tuesday. Two days in. Hope everyone's doing good. You're back with Josh on today's episode. We're looking at leaving this bubble. We talked about that Christian bubble yesterday that we want to live in. How do we get out? Why do we pop it? How do we do this? So yesterday we talked about Jesus going to the messy places. Today I want to talk about why. And in Mark chapter 2, Jesus' arguing with the Pharisees, and he tells them point blank, I didn't come for those who are well. I came for those who are sick. In other words, you guys are good. I didn't come for you. You're just going to keep on going. And there's a lot of theological stuff there that we're not going to get into today, but you don't take a perfectly healthy person to the doctor. But for some reason, the modern church has perfected that exact same thing that Jesus avoided. We've built an entire subculture to insulate ourselves from the sick. We want to work in the Christian bubble. We want to eat our fast food in the Christian bubble. Want to only hang out with people in the bubble. We swap churches the moment we get offended. But we never leave the bubble. See, our challenge today is we treat our faith like a private country club rather than a rescue mission. We're afraid of the darkness because stepping into it costs us something. Time, comfort, reputation, energy. Like there's a cost with it. But when did our personal safety and comfort become the ultimate Christian virtues? Jesus didn't set up a healing ministry in the safe confines of a synagogue. He walked right into the hospital in the real world and went, I'm here to restore the sight. I'm here to do all of the things. He didn't wait for people to come to him. Like the entire point of the incarnation of Christ was Christ left glory with the Father to come here to the broken. Where do we get the idea that our mission is to get people from the outside of the bubble inside of it? And we expect them to do that all on their own. We didn't go to the Father all on our own. The Father came to us. You can't reach the sick if you refuse to leave the well. That one person that you know it's going to be a long conversation, that one situation where you're like, I haven't been wanting to deal with this. It may be a child that you know you're sitting here going, hey, this phone thing's gotten out of hand. We're going to step in, we're going to bring light here. Repent of the desire for a comfortable Christianity. Step into that place intentionally today. Make the phone call, walk into the break room, start a conversation, do something to bring light to that one dark area today. So I hope you have a happy Tuesday. Hope it's a good day. Can't wait to see you guys tomorrow.