00:00:10.000You can find out all the information for our upcoming Strong Church event, Strong Church Dream Conference, February 26, 27, 28, tpfaith.com.
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00:00:22.000It will be a game-changing conference.
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00:01:47.000And man, we have a great lineup this year.
00:01:50.000It's a conference really that is about standing strong in all the cultural issues at the same time, how to show love and compassion to your city.
00:01:58.000And I think that's the great balance we're looking for is, you know, being a pastor these days is really kind of walking a tightrope a little bit.
00:02:06.000It's balancing the love and compassion of Jesus with holding strong to the justice and the truth of the Bible.
00:02:15.000So we talked about that this past Sunday in church and we're talking about the Dream Conference as well.
00:02:20.000And we just keep saying we can walk and shoot gum at the same time.
00:02:23.000We can be strong in values and strong in compassion.
00:02:26.000So just kind of tell us, by the way, anyone on the audience, there's lots of different URLs they could check out.
00:02:31.000Tpfaith.com knows one way to get there and you know this is this is an exciting time to do it.
00:02:38.000It's in Phoenix Arizona, in a couple weeks.
00:02:41.000Talk about the original vision, how this all came to be.
00:02:44.000Years ago in Davenport, Iowa that's where our first pastored our church exploded.
00:02:51.000I went there and we had a 76 in attendance and we started reaching out to people and nobody wanted.
00:02:58.000We reached the children and I bought a no bus and began to bring them in, and then I bought another and then I bought 10 and then I bought 20 out of 47 buses bringing, Bringing in people that a lot of people wouldn't even want to their church.
00:05:50.000I always wanted to go to a city that you could reach everybody and never reach everybody.
00:05:58.000I wanted to go to a city where you'd never fish it out.
00:06:03.000And when I heard about this city, everybody thought I was crazy because I was going from a church of 4,000 people to a church of 200 that had been...
00:06:14.000So you were in the quad cities, major church.
00:06:18.000And they say, hey, come to this place.
00:08:33.000I'd found a need that nobody was fulfilling it.
00:08:36.000And every time I find a need, I get excited because it's an opportunity to do something for God and go someplace that nobody's ever gone before.
00:08:57.000The driver jumped out, ran around, opened up a door, pushed a button, and a lift went up, and they rolled out a little lady in a wheelchair.
00:09:07.000And she looked like Queen Elizabeth on her throne.
00:09:11.000And they pushed the button and down it came.
00:10:34.000And honestly, it's a big show and tell.
00:10:37.000It's so practical that we want to show you exactly how to find needs in your community and fill those needs, find the hurts and heal those hurts.
00:11:10.000What can people expect if they come to strong church?
00:11:12.000Yeah, it all begins at 6:30 on Monday night.
00:11:15.000Pastor Jensen Franklin is our guest speaker.
00:11:18.000But before it even begins, we have what we call the parade of ministries.
00:11:22.000And we have about 175 ministries of our church represented by 3,000 workers in our church who will parade across the stage, you know, carrying their sign with all their workers.
00:11:36.000And it takes 30 minutes to get all the people across the stage.
00:11:39.000And it's just a real visual of what can happen in a church when every member becomes a minister.
00:11:46.000And, you know, we always say that's our job as pastors to equip the people and send them out to do the ministry so they get to do the fun stuff.
00:11:57.000And you will love it because those thousands of people that come across while we're worshiping, the worship team, and some of them will be in wheelchairs, some of them will be in motorcycles.
00:12:09.000And they must be so excited to have the chance to be honored, right?
00:13:28.000It's coming back because of the gospel there.
00:13:32.000So really, you can get trained in the basic ministries of the church, but there's new ideas and new ways to reach your city that some people have never thought about before.
00:13:43.000I'm going to just list off some of the speakers, obviously.
00:14:07.000Hi, i'm Adriana, a politics major at Hillsdale College.
00:14:11.000Here's Hillsdale president, dr Larry Arn, with a constitution minute.
00:14:14.000America's founders recognized an obvious fact of life, human beings differ in terms of physical attributes and talents.
00:14:20.000Because of this, some people will be better at some things than they are at others.
00:14:24.000But they also recognize that the tall and the short among us, the swift and the slow among us are still human beings if we are recognizable as human beings and therefore we are equal in terms of the rights that pertain to human beings, rights attached to human nature, rights that come from God.
00:14:40.000Declaration Of Independence names three of the big ones, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
00:14:45.000Exercising these rights is necessary if we are to be truly free in our own time.
00:14:50.000Many influential people believe that only government can decide what our rights should be.
00:14:55.000Understanding our rights and how the constitution protects them is vital to our freedom.
00:15:00.000To learn more and get a free pocket constitution, visit constitutionminute.com.
00:15:07.000We just had an email here from Deborah.
00:15:09.000Charlie, this really touched my heart so much because I haven't been able to go to church for almost three years because I'm in a wheelchair.
00:15:14.000I call churches and they say I can watch online.
00:15:24.000But hey, we actually might be able to connect.
00:15:26.000I'm going to respond and ask where she is because we have a network of pastors, so maybe we'll be able to find someone that could pick her up.
00:15:31.000Everyone deserves the right to be able to go to church if they want to go to church.
00:15:35.000I believe that if we can't accomplish that very basic, it's not the same watching it online.
00:16:13.000So, we collaborated, and we launched Freedom Night in America.
00:16:17.000And every month, the first Wednesday of the month, we have one of the great, outspoken Christian or at least conservative.
00:16:27.000I think everyone except Dennis Prager has been Christian, if I'm not mistaken.
00:16:30.000Well, James Lindsay, we had two, but I'd say almost everyone's been Christian.
00:16:33.000Yeah, but they're speaking to the issues of our day.
00:16:36.000And what it has done for our church is it's brought into our church, first of all, people that would have never come.
00:16:42.000And a lot of these people aren't even church-going people, but they have conservative values.
00:16:46.000And they're like, hey, there's a church here that's standing up for what I believe in.
00:16:50.000So it's really helped to grow our church.
00:16:52.000And what it does for our young people is it gives them ammunition to go into their schools, into their communities, and just talk with great relevance about what the subject is and what they're dealing with.
00:17:04.000Yeah, and do you have a thought on that, Tommy?
00:17:06.000I'm just saying when I first met you and I heard you, you really touched me because for years we did a lot of what you're talking about.
00:17:16.000I remember when we were having the Vietnam War and people were calling policemen pigs and everything else.
00:17:24.000We had what we call Stand Up for America Sunday.
00:18:41.000Either one of you, I mean, going all the way back to the Vietnam War, that's more courageous than anything we've done together, by the way, bringing up tanks in the midst of the anti-war protests.
00:19:13.000That's what he wants of the church today, to do justice.
00:19:18.000There's only one voice when it comes to justice and fairness in the world today, and that is God and God's Word.
00:19:23.000So all that we are doing is we are trying to be the thermostat for the culture.
00:19:29.000The culture is supposed to read the thermostat.
00:19:31.000So if there's chaos in the culture, it's because the church has set the thermostat way too low.
00:19:36.000Okay, and so we're saying that we're not going to compromise on the word of God, and the word of God speaks to every issue in our culture today, and we're going to stand on that.
00:19:45.000Now, if that gets into what some people call political issues, abortion and things like that, that's the culture coming into our domain and taking those issues and making them political.
00:20:57.000It's the largest human sex trafficking organization in North America.
00:21:00.000So I think that if a church can have a balance of mercy and compassion and loving kindness for the community, but also holding to the truth, you know, we're not called to be parakeets just parroting what the world tells us.
00:21:16.000We're called to speak the truth and stand by the truth and have mercy.
00:21:19.000Yeah, our God is a God of order as well as love and forgiveness.
00:22:42.000There's never been a conference like this when it's going to be because we have the church and we have what we need to do is culturally, your part.
00:22:54.000And I want to say that the pastor who is really smart is one that brings all of his staff and brings the leaders in his church to this conference because they'll go back and change their world by being here at this conference.
00:24:29.000Because I can tell you right now that you send a kid to a public school, especially to a college, and it's a 70% chance that when they come back, they'll no longer be the values of the church.
00:25:04.000We are of the world, but we don't have to be in the world.
00:25:07.000But we have a place where young people can come, gymnadias, zims, and places, and they can gather together and be strong and go out now with a strong faith and reach others for the gospel.
00:25:24.000Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here from the New York Times best-selling author, Eric Metaxas, comes a riveting new film, Letter to the American Church.
00:25:30.000The film explores the parallels between 1930s Nazi Germany, Mao and Stalin regimes, and the infiltration of cultural Marxism in America today.
00:25:37.000The church's decision to stay out of politics undermines the very message of the gospel and its power to transform human existence.
00:25:43.000Metaxas issues an urgent call to the church.
00:25:46.000Stay silent and abandon the mission of proclaiming liberty or stand up to the forces of evil.
00:25:50.000Join Eric and me and many others in the film as we explain how America and the church are at the precipice of destruction and the need to wake up and take action.
00:26:13.000We confront wokeism, we confront critical race theory, and we talk about what you, the believer, can do.
00:26:19.000Go to lettertotheamericanchurch.com for more information.
00:26:25.000So Luke, some people are saying there's a growing Christian movement where they say we're not in the world, we're not of the world, we're not of the world, we just happen to be here, and we shouldn't really care about politics, is that it's just divisive, it's Christian nationalist.
00:26:45.000In fact, we have begun a brand new ministry in our church called the Civics Ministry.
00:26:49.000And we are actively right now, we had 125 people show up night one of the ministry.
00:26:56.000And we are doing our best to make sure that we get young people informed and middle-aged people running for school offices, school board offices.
00:27:05.000And we had an elected official winning carefree this past year, a very important position there.
00:27:12.000So we are doing our best to get our people on the ballots and so that we have righteous people, people who love the Lord leading our city.
00:27:22.000So we feel completely different about that.
00:27:27.000The reason why, you know, Paul says in Romans 13 that the rulers should be godly rulers who make their decisions on right and wrong, good and evil, based on the Bible.
00:27:57.000We're going to do our best to get the right people in these positions to lead our state.
00:28:02.000And some people will say, but it will torpedo our church that people will stop coming and stop attending.
00:28:07.000Have you found that to be true, either of you?
00:28:10.000Well, you know, when we took this stand, and by the way, when you came to our church and began to speak into our church, it changed the city.
00:30:07.000One of our listeners said, Charlie, my son and I recently visited Dream City Church for the first time.
00:30:12.000I had tears spilling down my face through the entire service.
00:30:16.000I just want you to know that your interaction with this place found me a new home to worship our God and be with other like-minded patriots.
00:30:22.000It's not political, but it's founded in truth.
00:30:24.000I saw all races and economical and social barriers broken.
00:30:28.000It's beautiful what you guys have created.
00:32:16.000And what we found was, yeah, there were some carnal people who just said, I don't want to be a part of this, and they left.
00:32:24.000But they were not influencers in the church.
00:32:26.000And they were just people who just, you know, they just want to kind of dip their toe in the gospel.
00:32:31.000And but what we found, Charlie, was that there were people who were movers and shakers in our city who were not yet Christians, but they appreciated the stand that we took and that we wouldn't compromise and just be canceled.
00:32:44.000So they began to come to our church and we just saw everything explode overnight at our church.
00:32:53.000Right now we're building three buildings at the same time, you know, at three different campuses.
00:35:35.000It's relationship with the Lord, relationship with Jesus.
00:35:38.000And when you meet him, when you experience his love, when you experience his forgiveness, and then you get a hold of his purpose for your future, it truly is a game changer.
00:35:50.000And, you know, knowing Jesus is very simple.
00:36:38.000It's only through the grace and the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed on the cross.
00:36:42.000And knowing him is as simple as acknowledging that, that I'm flawed, I messed up, but there is one who loves me, and the currency of his blood can pay for my sins.
00:36:54.000So when someone comes to that realization and comes to the end of themselves, and they ask for Jesus Christ and his work on the cross to forgive and atone for their sins, it's a new day.
00:37:06.000Apostle Paul said the old goes away, the new comes.
00:37:10.000So I would hope that anyone who's listening would make that decision today because it truly is the most important, life-changing decision of your entire life.
00:38:14.000Please bring your team and come with great expectation.
00:38:18.000The final night of the conference, we go on the side of the mountain on Prayer Mountain, and we write down our dreams on pieces of paper and we drop them at the prayer pavilion.
00:38:26.000And all year long, our prayer team prays for your dreams all throughout the year.