Why Modern Faith Feels Empty | Week 1
Most people think being a Christian means being nice, living morally, and attending church. The early church understood it as laying down your life for Him. In Week 1 of Undomesticated, we look at Acts 1 and 2 to see what Jesus actually called His followers to be: witnesses, not just attendees.
You will hear what the Gospel really is, why a watered-down version can't produce changed lives, and what it means to hear, believe, and repent. Peter preached an undiluted Gospel, and about 3,000 people were added in one day. Over six weeks, we are asking one question: what did following Jesus cost them? 📖
Scripture: Acts 1:6 9, Acts 2:14 47, Romans 10:9 15, 1 Corinthians 11:23-29
When You Have a Borrowed Faith | Week 2
In Acts 19, seven sons of a Jewish high priest try to cast out a demon “by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims,” and it goes very badly for them. They had the right words, the right family, and the right religious background, but their faith was borrowed. Twenty years earlier, Paul had the same problem. He knew more about God than almost anyone, yet he had never met Him until the road to Damascus. In Week 2 of Undomesticated, Pastor Justin Goodson looks at how a secondhand faith becomes firsthand. It moves from knowing about God to actually encountering Him.
We’ll see that: You can experience God’s presence. You can hear God’s voice through His Word, His Spirit, and His people. Is your faith yours, or are you living on someone else’s?
Scripture: Acts 19:11–16 · Acts 9:1–21
When Pain Tries to Domesticate Our Faith | Week 3
Herod killed James with the sword and then arrested Peter. Passover week, sixteen soldiers, one fisherman. The early church had just buried one of its pillars and was about to lose another. Where was God? Why didn’t He stop it? Pain, loss, and tragedy come for all of us: the diagnosis, the phone call, the divorce papers, the prodigal, the anxiety that won’t lift. In those moments, the enemy doesn’t usually get us to stop believing in God. He gets us to believe in a smaller one. Pain tries to domesticate our faith and shrink it down to something safe that can’t be disappointed again.
In this message from Acts 12 and Daniel 3, Pastor Justin unpacks the faith of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and what it looks like to have a complete faith.
Scriptures: Acts 12:1–5, 21–24 · John 16:33 · Daniel 3:15–18