What if you don't have to wait until everything is in place before you start?

Welcome to Week 10 of Ecclesia: The Church Can Change the World at Sozo Kyle Church. In this final message of the series, Chris Ball asks the question underneath it all: how do you actually build a church that sends? Starting with Jesus' words in Matthew 16, "I will build my church," he shows that Jesus is the builder, the foundation is already laid, and our job is to build with care and join what He is already doing.

Using the Wright brothers' first flight, Chris makes the case for building the plane while it's in the air, and lays out the order Antioch-style churches build in: discipleship first, then vision, then leaders, then training, and only then the systems. Most of us build that pyramid upside down.

In this message, we look at:

• Matthew 16:13-21: "I will build my church," and why the church is announced before the cross
• 1 Corinthians 3 and Ephesians 2: the foundation is already laid, and we are living stones being built together
• The Wright brothers and Luke 10: why Jesus sent people out before they were fully ready
• The five-layer pyramid: discipleship, vision for mission, developing leaders, training, then support systems
• Why a leadership shortage is really a discipleship problem
• Four values for building in the air: trajectory over technique, everything on purpose, room for a learning curve, and staying on mission
• Acts 13:1-3: the Spirit sends, but the church had been preparing for a whole year
• Three churches, three directions: Emmaus (retreat), Jerusalem (success that stays local), and Antioch (a fire that has to be told) in Luke 24
• Which city are you walking toward?

This isn't a nice bow on the series. It's an invitation to realize we are sent, and to live like it.

Our goal at Sozo Kyle is simple: a family on mission, re-presenting Jesus to the world around us.

📖 Matthew 16:13-21
📖 1 Corinthians 3:10-11
📖 Ephesians 2:19-22
📖 1 Peter 2:4-5
📖 Ephesians 4:16
📖 Luke 10:1-17
📖 Acts 13:1-3
📖 Luke 24:13-35
📖 Acts 11:19-26

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Does the church exist to care for people or to send them? What if the answer is both?

Welcome to Week 9 of Ecclesia: The Church Can Change the World at Sozo Kyle Church. In this message, Chris Ball looks at the two expressions of ministry on display in the Antioch church: pastoral ministry, which helps people become healthy in Christ, and apostolic ministry, which helps healthy people become fruitful in Christ's mission. Barnabas spent a whole year teaching and caring for the church before anyone was sent out, and it was Antioch's one message, Christ crucified, risen, and the kingdom come, that earned believers the nickname "Christians" in the first place.

This message shows what happens when one is missing. Pastoral care without sending produces comfortable spectators. Sending without care produces exhausted sheep. And every believer, not just church staff, can learn to ask the Holy Spirit a simple question in the moment: does this person need care, or do they need a challenge?

In this message, we look at:

• Pastoral and apostolic ministry in Acts 11: what each one does and why Antioch needed both
• The danger of too much of either: comfortable spectators or exhausted sheep
• Care or challenge: Job's friends, Jesus restoring Peter, and Jesus with the woman in John 8
• How to ask the Holy Spirit what love requires in the moment
• Acts 11:26 and the nickname that stuck: why the first Christians were called "little Christs"
• Disciples versus believers: the secret sauce of Antioch
• Acts 20:20: teaching publicly and from house to house
• Colossians 1:24-29 and Galatians 4:19: preaching to form Christ in people, not to transfer information
• An activation: who is the Holy Spirit highlighting to you, and what does love require?

Don't just receive the message. Be the messenger.

Our goal at Sozo Kyle is simple: a family on mission, re-presenting Jesus to the world around us.

📖 Acts 11:19-26
📖 Acts 20:20
📖 Colossians 1:24-29
📖 Galatians 4:19
📖 1 Corinthians 2:1-5
📖 Job 2:11-13
📖 John 21:15-17
📖 John 8:1-11
📖 2 Corinthians 9:6-8

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What if the enemy's best strategy was never to destroy the church, but to keep it unarmed?

Welcome to Week 8 of Ecclesia: The Church Can Change the World at Sozo Kyle Church. In this message, Chris Ball unpacks one of the most overlooked verses in the Old Testament: "Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel." The Philistines didn't need to out-fight Israel. They only needed to remove the people who made the weapons. This message shows why that same strategy still plays out today, and why the church was never meant to be a crowd watching a few people play.

From Jonathan climbing the hill with his armor bearer, to Jesus walking through a locked door and sending His disciples, this message calls every believer to be a blacksmith: someone who passes on what they carry and equips the people around them.

In this message, we look at:

• 1 Samuel 13:19-22: why the Philistines took the blacksmiths, and why Babylon did the same in 2 Kings 24
• Why a stadium of thousands watching a few play is the wrong picture of the church
• 1 Samuel 14: how Jonathan's climb mirrors what Jesus did at Calvary
• Three lies that keep us in the cave: "I'm not qualified," "it's the pastor's job," and "my story is too messy"
• The sword is the Word: Ephesians 6:17, Hebrews 4:12, and Revelation 19
• Colossians 2 and John 20: Jesus disarms the enemy and sends us out
• Using the sword well: trained, tailored to you, and carried in love and gentleness
• Many ways to wield the sword: blacksmiths, distributors, trainers, champions, demonstrators, armor bearers, supply line givers, intercessors, sharpeners, pioneers, and the next generation
• Why a sword is for the forgiven, and an invitation to become a son or daughter

Nobody gets left in the cave. Nobody is destined to be a spectator. Every person is a sent one.

Our goal at Sozo Kyle is simple: a family on mission, re-presenting Jesus to the world around us.

📖 1 Samuel 13:5-22
📖 1 Samuel 14:6-23
📖 2 Kings 24:14-16
📖 Ephesians 6:17
📖 Colossians 2:13-15
📖 John 20:19-21
📖 Hebrews 4:12
📖 Nehemiah 4:17
📖 1 Peter 3:15
📖 Ephesians 4:11-12

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