On Sunday, October 10, 2021, Pastor Stuart shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. Pastor Stuart concluded our series on the Spirit-empowered life. This week’s message encourages us to not depend on outward credentials or affiliations and to rather lean on Jesus by resting in the Holy Spirit, returning to the cross, and remembering that it is the Spirit at work within us to make us more like Christ.

See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!
Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh. May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation. Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule—to the Israel of God.
Galatians 6:11-16 (NIV)