Cómo Dios usa tu Movimiento para traer el Cielo a la Tierra | Crossroads en Español

Hello, welcome back to week number two of Stories of Origin. Thank you for joining us today as we continue our series where we are exploring the lives of ordinary people in the Bible who today are remembered as men and women of faith, simply because they took a step to trust in God. My name is Victor Martinez, Pastor of Crossroads en Español, and today we are going to hear from our main pastor, Kyle Ransom, who will take us to study a little more about the story of Joseph. Joseph's life took several completely unexpected turns. He went from being betrayed by his own family, his own brothers, to becoming practically the second most powerful man in all of Egypt. In case you don't know the end of this story, it was God who used him to save his entire family, his entire people. His unbreakable trust in God transformed years of suffering into a story of redemption that ended up saving the lives of many people. So let's listen to our pastor Kyle as he takes us deeper into this story. The story of origin is that part of which no one speaks, the time before success and confidence, before the world knows your name. They are mistakes, deviations, and failures. It is the beginning. Everyone you admire has one. The Bible could be the best story of origin ever told. It is about how God finds people at the beginning. In the beginning, God creates. In the beginning, humanity is made of dust. In the beginning, there is possibility, purpose, and relationship. Then, everything comes down. But God restores and unites humanity to His work. The Bible is full of people who, over time,

became known by virtues such as faith, courage, wisdom, and sacrifice. We call them heroes of faith. But none of them started there. The story God tells is about Him finding ordinary people in everyday places to invite them to be part of something extraordinary. Today's story is about José, the betrayed brother who was a great provider. Hello everyone, welcome to Crossroads. My name is Kyle. I just got back from a trip to Puerto Rico, one of our mission trips where we sent ordinary people to make an impact. It was fantastic, a family trip. I went with my daughter. It seems I'm still wearing the same shirt. However, you have changed a lot during my absence. Many things change. Throughout my life, I was told that in order to be healthy, I had to eat lettuce. And I come back and everyone says, don't eat lettuce. Eat chocolate cake, fried food, anything is better than lettuce now. I say, glory to God. I don't know how it happened, but I've been praying for this moment that these are the best options. What world are we living in? This trip we made, going to Puerto Rico. At Crossroads, we send people all over the world, people who want to go and make an impact. As I mentioned, this was a family trip. I was able to go with my daughter. And on this trip, our volunteer leader, Mike Hillenmayer,

an incredible guy, every morning and night, began to say this to the whole group. He said, hey, today, why don't you do it according to the plan? What he meant was to choose something outside of your comfort zone, something that challenges you, something that could be embarrassing, difficult, scary, or something like that. He said, do it according to the plan. Do it so that it leads to a better story. Good stories are not doing the same thing over and over again. Do you remember doing something comfortable? That's not a good story. I think we all want to live a life that is the best story possible, a life of extraordinary impact. That is precisely what we are examining, these stories of origin, ordinary people who live an extraordinary life of extraordinary impact. How do you do it? There are two recipes. The first is the popular recipe, the recipe of pop culture, the one we consume in comics and movies. And its basic formula is like this. It says that the extraordinary impact happens when an ordinary person discovers that, in reality, they have extraordinary power. In comics, it is when Spider-Man is bitten by a spider and discovers that his fingers stick to the walls. My God, and he can throw cobwebs with his hands. In movies, it is the moment when Harry Potter discovers that he is a wizard. Hagrid appears and says, you are a wizard, Harry. And he says, wow.

It is when Luke Skywalker discovers that he is a Jedi, he can move rocks, and when Rey does the same, same story, I don't know why we needed a second one, but it's that moment. Right? Ordinary people discover extraordinary powers. But the second proposal of how an ordinary person achieves an extraordinary impact is different. It's from the Bible. And the Bible lists all these people that we see in this series in one chapter, Hebrews 11, known as the hall of faith. It's almost like the hall of fame of those people who achieved these extraordinary impacts. And if you review this list, you will see that it is a very varied group. There are rich people and poor people, young and old, men and women, all kinds of people. But they all share one thing in common. And it's not that they discovered that they have extraordinary power. It's not that they discover that they have extraordinary intelligence, extraordinary charisma, or anything like that. In reality, this is a list of people that would never appear on the cover of Forbes magazine. They don't have the features that define a leader. If you review the list, you will see a pastor, a shipbuilder, a wandering nomad, a housewife, and a prostitute. That is not the list of people that one would say, they have what is necessary. No, what everyone shares in common is that they are all ordinary people who decided to have an extraordinary faith. The lesson is, the extraordinary impact is ordinary people with extraordinary faith. I think this is part of why the Bible has transcended cultures, times, technological and real revolutions. And why 2,000 years after Jesus walked the earth, it is still today the most important and impactful book that we have. It's because it's not a book full of perfect people who discovered that they have power. It's a book full of ordinary people, weak, antiheroes who make an important choice, who decide to choose extraordinary faith. This series in which we find ourselves, Stories of Origin, is actually a series about how to enhance the growth of your faith. I don't know if making your faith grow excites you. I understand that we are in the church, and if I asked you if you wanted to make your faith grow, you would say, you are a pastor. So, yes, of course, yes. In Crossroads, I didn't care about the correct answer.

It's okay if that idea doesn't excite you. In fact, if it doesn't, that makes you normal with a normal understanding of what faith is. I think faith is one of the most misunderstood concepts that exist. We tend to think of faith as a belief that I keep in my mind. If I mark the ten correct boxes and I have the correct beliefs, that is the correct faith. When we think of faithful people, we probably think of people who stay within the line. But that's not how the Bible describes faith. What is faith? Chuck Mingo started this series last week. He did a great job talking about Gideon. If you missed it, watch it on the Crossroads app, the web, or YouTube. And he cited this verse where Hebrews 11, the chapter on the heroes of faith, begins defining faith. It says this, Hebrews 11, verse 1. Now, faith is the guarantee of what is expected, the certainty of what is not seen. That word, guarantee, means confidence. And the word, certainty, means, more precisely, evidence. And so, what the Bible is saying is that faith is, in reality, confidence based on evidence. I think that people who are against faith tend to think that faith is like this. Close your eyes, turn off your brain, and simply dream about things. It's like a fairy tale. No, not at all. We hear this in the story of Hyden that we just heard. He followed a scientific path that made this affirmation against faith, and it's simply not true. I would say that my faith is based on evidence. The confidence I have in God is based on what I have seen Him do in my life, in creation, while I was studying science, all those things. Because it gives you confidence to go out, move, and act. Now, how would you know if someone really trusts something? My wife, Sarah, and I have been renovating our house for eight years. Thank you very much.

We're almost done, but there's still a long way to go. In the process of renovating our house, we have removed three load walls. And when I say we, I mean us, okay? I mean us. For the first one, a contractor asked me for $15,000 to remove the wall. I said, wow. I saw a five-minute video. I went to the Menards website, bought wood for $80, and I did it. And it's okay, relax. We hired a structural engineer. I did it well. It's okay. By the way, removing a load wall and putting supports is not complicated. I can teach you how to do it in five minutes. It's not difficult. The process is very simple, you remove the plaster panel, the image above. Before cutting the mounts, you build, image in the middle, a temporary support wall. Because you need something that supports the weight while you place the load beam, that is the image below. All this is very easy, but there is a step in the process that shows if you have confidence in your work or not. And it's the last thing you do. The last thing you do is remove your temporary support wall. And that's when you discover if your house is going to fall or not. And you can say, I have confidence that I did this right, but what you say doesn't mean anything until you cut those mounts. It's the same with faith. You can say that you have confidence in God as a provider, but it doesn't mean anything until you follow what he says about your finances. You remove the supports in your life, you stop controlling everything. You can say that you have faith in the concept of grace, it doesn't mean anything until you go to the person you feel doesn't deserve any, and you give it to them anyway. You can say that you have faith that what you should do with your life is serve people. Clearly, Jesus says this, but it doesn't mean anything until you double your life to really do it. Look, faith is not what you believe in your mind.

It's not about your mind, it's about your hands and your feet. It's about what you do and where you go. It says in Santiago 2.18, Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith through my works. It's about what you do and where you go. If you go over the list of faithful people in Hebrews 11, it doesn't describe the things they thought in their heads. It doesn't describe that. It describes with these words, really deep and dynamic, oriented to action, what they really did. It ends like this, Hebrews 11.32, and what else can I say? I wouldn't have time to talk about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, who by faith conquered kingdoms. They did justice and achieved what was promised. They closed the mouths of the lions, put out the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword. They took strength from weakness. They were brave in war and put foreign armies on the run. Faith is action. Faith is winning land. Faith is taking risks. Faith is feeling uncomfortable. It's what you do. My hope and prayer for you today is that you act. I have been praying this for you, and I just want to say, if you are at that point where you feel that your faith is stagnant, it feels as if God and I were only fulfilling the requirements. I have been coming here for a while. I have been close to faith all my life and it has never clicked. It's just one thing. I need a spark. Or maybe you feel that your faith is strong, but you want more.

Great. Either way, I want you to join what I'm going to ask of you right now. God, I ask that you move me to action. I ask that you move us. Not only to believe something in our minds, but to do something with our hands and our feet. To go out and serve in your name. To be your partners to bring your kingdom to earth, as it is in heaven. Amen. Today, as you heard in the previous video, we are talking about Joseph. Joseph is a character very close to my heart because my second name is literally Joseph, Kyle Joseph Ranson. Joseph is the family name transmitted by generations of Ranson men. My father was called Joseph. The second name of his father was Joseph. His father was called Joseph, and so on backwards. And when my eldest son was born, I had to make an important decision. What name should I give him? Kyle or Joseph? They wanted to be both, one or the other. I thought about it and came to the conclusion that it can't be Kyle. Why? Because the world doesn't need so many Kyles. We are not known for being productive members of society. We are not doctors or lawyers. We don't run nations. We are only here to have a good time. So you want some of us, but not many.

We are like the Chad Millennial. That's what we are. So I decided to give the name Joseph to my eldest son. And Joseph is like the opposite of Kyle. When you think of Joseph, you think of a leader. strong, stable, who makes good decisions, and in whom you can trust. The reason goes back to the first Joseph we know. He is one of the oldest names in the world, Joseph. It goes back to the fourth generation of the family of faith. You have Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, also known as Israel, and then Joseph. A quick review of his life, what he did and what was remarkable. He is the youngest of twelve brothers. He was born of Jacob, and he is the favorite of his father, largely because he speaks ill of his brothers to his father. This is how his story begins in Genesis 37. Joseph, being still very young, because he was 17 years old, took care of the herds along with his brothers. The children of Bilhah and Silpah, women of his father. And Joseph informed his father of the bad reputation they had. Israel loved Joseph more than all his other children, because he had had him in his old age. That is why he had him made a very elegant tunic. When his brothers saw that his father loved him more than all of them, they began to hate him, and they did not even greet him kindly. Now, after this, Joseph has a couple of dreams in which his brothers and his parents bow to him. Joseph decides to repair the relationship with his brothers by telling them his dreams. It is going badly. So badly that they throw him into a well and sell him as a slave. Here, in the lowest moment of his life, at the age of 17,

sold as a slave, is where it seems to begin the version of popular culture about how to have an impactful life, where he discovers that he has extraordinary powers. Because he goes and works for a man named Potiphar, who puts him in charge of something small, and that goes incredibly well. She puts him in charge of more things and it goes very well. Eventually, Joseph runs Potiphar's house. Joseph has Warren Buffett's economic touch. Everything he does becomes gold. Every decision he makes gets exponential returns. Potiphar thrives, all his work thrives, his home thrives. It goes incredibly well. Joseph discovers this incredible power. Then everything goes wrong. Potiphar's wife wants to have sex with him. He runs away. All this happens. He ends up in prison. But again, in prison, he discovers another extraordinary power. He can interpret dreams. Potiphar and the pharaoh's baker are in prison. They have dreams. No one can interpret them. Joseph does exactly what he says will happen. It happens. A couple of years pass and the pharaoh himself, king of all of Egypt, has a dream. He dreams of seven fat cows eating seven skinny ones. He dreams of seven wheat spikes breaking.

No one can interpret them. No one knows what these dreams mean. And remember that there is a guy, Joseph, in prison, and they get him out. He interprets dreams correctly. And the pharaoh says that he is so impressed that he puts him in charge of everything in the kingdom of Egypt. And again, Warren Buffett's touch works. Joseph makes a tax reform. Joseph makes an economic reform, and the nation prospers. They survive the famine and become richer. And Joseph saves all of Egypt, the most powerful nation on earth at that moment, and all of his family. By the way, Joseph is in prison and is a 13-year-old slave, from 17 to 30. All of that time he remains faithful to God. Incredible things about this man. Here is the strange thing. None of those things are mentioned in Hebrews, chapter 11, as the reason why Joseph is in the hall of faith. None of them are mentioned as something that you and I should imitate. Well, what is it? Hebrews 11, 22. By faith, Joseph, at the end of his life, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions about his own remains. That is the thing. That is the remarkable part of his life.

Direction, instructions about what to do when he dies. What did he say? The answer is in Genesis, chapter 50. Joseph said to his brothers, I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and will take you out of this land to take you to the land He promised you under the covenant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The land He promised. Then He made the children of Israel swear to Him that when God comes to their aid, you will take my remains from here. See, the remarkable part about Joseph, that which led him to an extraordinary life of impact, was not interpreted. dreams, nor was it his economic touch. What is extraordinary about his faith is this very thing, that Joseph was guided and driven by a vision beyond his life, a vision of the promised land, a promise that was sworn to his family four generations before him and in which they had not seen any progress. Nothing had happened. In fact, it was wrong and it seemed to go the other way around. They were farther from the promised land than ever at this time. And Joseph affirms, I am sure, based on the evidence of what I have seen God do in my life, that God will be faithful to take us to the promised land. I am so convinced that I want them to take my bones there when we go. I don't think Joseph knew this, but it would be 359 years before his descendants left Egypt to go to the promised land, and it would take another 40 years for them to finally arrive. Crazy, that faith. The great lesson of Joseph's faith, which is applicable to ordinary people like you and me, is that our faith increases when current work is guided by a future vision. That future vision is the promised land that God says will come, that he is bringing to the trait that defines the extraordinary life of Joseph, who in some way was able to work, not for a short time by the way. He was 30 years old when he was put in charge of

Egypt. The Bible says that he died when he was 110 years old. So for 80 years he worked in Egypt with a fixed gaze on the future vision of the promised land. Everything he did was to move towards that reality. Hebrews 11 says that this is common in all the heroes of faith. They all have this vision beyond their lives, working for something that they may never see with their own eyes. Hebrews 11 verse 13 says that all, all of them died without having received the things they were promised, although they saw them from afar and greeted them as looking to the horizon beyond their lives. They see the promised land and are determined to continue working towards it. They recognized that they were foreigners and pilgrims on earth. That is why God is not ashamed of being called his God, because he has prepared a city for them. He prepared a city. That city is the kingdom of God. In the Bible there are two moments of the promised land. There is the moment of the promised land of the Old Testament, where Israel walks towards a literal promised land. And then there is a second moment of the promised land, the arrival of the kingdom of God, something future that still has to happen. It is the city that God prepares. There is a popular idea that I hear, even from many Christians, the notion that the world is going to total disaster. Things are bad and getting worse. The older you get, the more you say this. Everything is bad and the new generation is bad. They are horrible. I remember that as a millennial they looked at us saying, They are the worst. I can't believe it. And I think, I will never have that attitude. Then came Generation Z and I say, those guys stink, you know? And for some reason we have the idea that the next generation is worse, that things are getting worse. Well, friends, if you believe in Jesus, that is the most anti-Jesus belief you can have. They are not getting worse. Jesus says that he is bringing his kingdom here to earth. The prayer of our Father. Pray that, Father, your will be done, that your kingdom come to earth as it is in heaven. And the reason for that is because this is the arc of the history of what God is creating. There is a city that comes to us and in reality it comes to us. Revelation 21, 2 to 3 describes the arrival of the city. Juan, the author, says, The people of God entered the promised land, came out of here, and went there. The second time that the people of God entered the promised land, they will come out of there and come here. It's crazy. You have to understand it because it changes everything. When you rent a house, they make you sign an agreement so you don't destroy the house, right?

A security deposit. Why do they do that? Because without that, we would treat it as if it weren't ours. Because it isn't, right? And they know that when you think you're in a place for a short time and you're not the owner or the administrator, you usually treat it badly. But when you think it's your house, when you think it's your job to prepare, to inherit the land, what the Bible says we'll do, by the way, you treat things very differently. Friends, this world is our home. This land is where God will bring his kingdom one day. And we can have a faith like that of Joseph who says, I believe based on the evidence I have seen that this is the trajectory of what God is doing and therefore I will work and spend my life working to see this kingdom come. Even if, by the way, I don't get to see it in the here and now of this life, although like all the heroes of faith, I only greet them from afar at the end of my life. The great theologian T. Wright described this reality like this. He said, the resurrection of Jesus is the beginning of God's new project. Not to take people out of the earth to take them to heaven, but to fill the earth with the life of heaven. What you do in the present, when you paint, preach, sing, sew, pray, teach, build hospitals, dig wells, fight for justice, write poems, take care of the needy and love your neighbor as yourself, will remain in the future of God. These activities are not simply ways to make present life a little less hard, a little more bearable, until the day we leave it behind completely, as that hymn says wrongly. They are part of what we could call building for the kingdom of God. The work of every person of faith is to build for the arrival of the kingdom of God, even if it happens a long time after our death. It is the vision of crossroads for years.

That is why we serve in distant places. That is why we address problems that many do not want to face because they seem enormous and impossible. In fact, many allied organizations have this vision. When we find someone with a vision so great that it seems impossible, so great that it could take more than a lifetime, there we say, hey, we must talk. There we say, hey, let's work together. The work that we have done, for example, on the other side of the world, in India and Nepal, for almost 20 years, to end the industry of sexual slavery there, to end rape for profit. That is what we are looking for. Not just to help a little. Not just to help a little. We try to finish it. And as a church, we have said that we will work on it until it happens. Let's be honest. Will we see the end of that? I say, maybe God can do whatever he wants. Certainly, God says in his word repeatedly, I can do much more than you ask, think or imagine. I believe it and I pray for it. It would be amazing. And maybe we will not see it. It means that it will not happen. It means that it will not happen. It means that it will not happen. And maybe we will not see it. Does it mean that it is not worth working for it?

No. Not at all. You can go with the flow of God, the kingdom of heaven, or work against it. I prefer to work with him. This is with all our partners, not just India and Nepal. It is the CityLink Center that we started in Cincinnati and I hope it reaches more cities. We work on that. It is the idea of how it would be. To see all families in generational poverty overcome it. We have been working on this for almost 20 years. Has it happened? No. Have we advanced? Yes. Is it likely that it will end before our death? Probably not. Is it not worth working for it? Let's go to Puerto Rico. We associate ourselves with Hunger. It is an amazing organization. They have worked a lot. They have incredible leadership and have tripled their work in the last two years. Now they are restoring six to seven houses a year of people in poverty who have no hope or help.

But their goal is to see all this happen in all of Puerto Rico. Six to seven houses a year. Is it likely that they will finish that before they die? No. It does not mean that it is not worth it because you can work with the tide of God or against it. We want to work with God. Now, this year is the 20th anniversary of the first trip we made to Mamalodi, South Africa. In 2006, we took 300 people who raised funds to open the AIDS hospice that we paid from our pockets, people who trusted God with their income. We went there to open that hospice. We planted gardens, built houses and helped the children. It was an amazing experience. I was on that trip. This is my shirt from that trip, by the way. I still have 20 years left. How about that? 06 Mamalodi. And I'll tell you, man, it was an incredible experience to be able to go there. That's me with Sara on the trip, 20 years ago. I don't have that shirt anymore. That one disappeared. It was something amazing, 20 years later, to be able to go to Puerto Rico with my daughter. I would like to tell you about the trip, but I thought you would prefer to listen to her. Please welcome Gracie to the stage. Thank you. Gracie did not ask the time of the service when she was offered. It was earlier than I thought. So, it's good that you're here. Tell us what we did and for whom it was. Well, our group had about 25 people and we split up to make two different houses. I worked for a person, Maria. She was an 80-year-old woman who had no family or friends who could help her. And her kitchen was completely destroyed. The paint on the walls was coming off. There were cockroaches everywhere and, honestly, it was no longer a safe place to live. Yes, that's true. And what did we finish for her in the week? Did we finish her kitchen? No, no. Do you think it was worth it? Yes. Why? Because you have to start with something and then... I know more people will come and they will finish it.

Good. Part of the great thing about this house, by the way, so that everyone understands, Gracie is being very kind. The living conditions would impact them. I've been all over the world and I've seen poverty in all kinds of ways. These were the worst living conditions I've ever seen. No water. No one to help. Old food on the floor. I had a dog that did its needs all over the house. It was really hard. You see us wearing masks in that video. It's because the smell of the house was so overwhelming. We had to wear them to be able to be inside and do the work. We saw a lot of cockroaches and spiders. What size were the spiders? The size of my hand. Okay, and did you like that? No. Is it okay? Did you do the work anyway? Yes. Well, another great thing is that we were able to stay in the neighborhood. The house where we stayed was about five houses away from Maria's. And so we were able to get to know and see the neighborhood really, really well. How many Marias do you think there are in Puerto Rico? Maybe thousands. Thousands. And that's how we help one. Yes. Do you think it's really worth helping Maria? Yes. Okay, why? Because you have to start somewhere, and then those thousands could become hundreds. The hundreds could become dozens, and then soon there's nothing left. It's incredible, isn't it?

Thank you. Unless you have the faith of a child. Unless you take the same attitude and say, Hey, I know it seems impossible, but I serve a God who makes the impossible possible. Unless you think, Maybe it won't happen in my life, but it doesn't mean it's impossible. God says, You can't enter my kingdom. That's the faith. To say that it's worth working for it. Okay, now tell us about the trip. How did the trip change you? Well, before it was like, Oh yes, I'm going to serve, it will be fine. And after that it was like, I want to serve others. Yes, it became a mission, right? Yes. Incredible. Okay, last question for you. There are probably some other families here, and maybe they didn't even know that we make family trips. There are other people who are thinking about going on a trip, maybe as a family, or maybe not even as a family. What would you tell them? Thank you. I would tell them to go. It's great and you can spend time with your family and you can help people. Great. Thank you.

Goodbye. You should know that I didn't tell her what to say. We didn't practice. I asked her if she wanted to be on stage with me and she said yes. What do you want me to do? I said, I will ask you some questions. What are they? I said, we will talk about that when we are there. By the way, if you want to register as a family or maybe on your own, the travel registrations are open this weekend. They weren't supposed to be open. But I said, hey, can we open them in case some people want to take a step? Because again, faith is not what I think in my mind. It's about what I really do. So I wanted to make sure that you have the opportunity to register for a trip. You can go to crossroads.net and see all the different trips to all over the world. I would love for you to take advantage of that and go do it. I would love for you to do it. The time is now. It's the time now because today is also the time of the World Cup final, by the way. We haven't talked about that. We should. World Cup final. Who's going with Spain? Good. Yamal, great player. Who's going with Argentina? I'm supporting Argentina for a reason. Messi. It's because Messi is a short king like me and we have to stay together. That's why. Do you want to see him win? We'll see.

Now, when you watch the game today, you'll see a lot of people wearing shirts. In fact, all over the stadium. People in the stands and people on the field. Everyone will be wearing a shirt. But at the end of the game, there will be two types of people. People whose shirts are still clean. And those with dirty shirts. Those who stayed in the stands cheering and those who came on and made the difference. Friends, do you know that if you believe in Jesus, you have a shirt? Do you know? Galatians 3.26 says, Of Christ. They wear a shirt. In the last 20 years, when we send people on trips, we give them a shirt. It's their shirt. And the goal is that it doesn't come back clean. The goal is to get it dirty. To have paint and stains and sweat everywhere. Because you worked and because you mattered. Gracie was really angry with Sarah. Because Sarah washed her trip shirt as soon as we got back. She said, By the way, you should thank Sarah for washing that shirt. It smelled like death. She ate an egg salad and farted. It was terrible. It could smell through the screen. I promise. It was very bad. But she understands.

Your shirt shouldn't be clean. The goal of life is not to live a common story. The goal of life is to do things. To exercise an extraordinary faith. Doing things that other people are not willing to do. Living a life that others see as crazy. That's the whole point. Dirty your shirt. And when you do, by the way, that's what will make you grow. That's what will give you confidence because you'll go out and see what God did. And it will give you confidence to go back and keep doing it. Look at my daughter right there. She has returned changed. Why? Because she came out and grew. Her faith now is stronger. Your faith will not grow from a seat. It won't. Come to the church. Look at her as much as you want. Do it. It's important. Keep coming. Keep seeing. Keep bringing friends. It's the place where you can be inspired to go and have faith. To act. I hope and pray that you have the courage to follow Joseph and the confidence to say, I think God is bringing his kingdom and I am totally determined to be part of that story. I decided to get my shirt dirty and get into the fight.

I hope today you feel driven to take action. I don't know what that action is. For all of us it is something different. I mean, that is the amazing part of God. There is not one single call for everyone. You have one single call in your life. You have a place where God is inviting you to enter. I don't know what it is, but God knows. And God is not stingy in sharing it with you. If you ask what it is, He will tell you. He will tell you. Before you go, close your eyes. Cierra los ojos, pídele a Dios si hay un lugar de fe en el que Él quiera que entres, hay algún lugar al que Él quiera que vayas. Quizás sea un viaje. Si es así, comprometete con Dios hoy mismo antes de que acabe el día. Entrarás a la web y verás los viajes. Comprometete. Quizás sea servir. Tal vez haya alguien, una María, en tu propio vecindario que vino a tu mente mientras contábamos esa historia, alguien que no tiene ayuda. Comprometete a ayudar. Quizás para ti sea algo del run journey que hicimos hace unos meses. Quizás haya algo en ese viaje que Dios te impulsó a hacer. Una carrera que tenía para ti y te inspiraste en el momento, pero la vida se interpuso y aún no has dado el paso. Amigos, quiero leerles este versículo. Dice que hay una nube de testigos animándote. Eso incluye a José, de quien hablamos hoy, y a todos en el Salón de la Fe de Hebreos 11. Hebreos 12 dice,

Fijemos la mirada en Jesús, el autor y perfeccionador de nuestra fe. Dios, estoy agradecido de que nos invites a una vida de impacto. Podrías habernos invitado simplemente a ser fanáticos que animan a otros, pero nos invitaste al juego. Danos el valor para entrar, Dios. Oro por más camisetas que se ensucien. Oro por familias dispuestas a ser enviadas. Oro por más personas que estén dispuestas a intervenir, a ir al lugar incómodo, a esforzarse, a trabajar, a sudar, y a ver tu reino venir, Dios. Por eso estamos aquí, creemos. Amén. Antes de despedirnos, quiero animarte a dar un siguiente paso. No dejes que este mensaje se quede solo en algo que escuchaste. Permite que Dios haga algo con él en tu vida. Tal vez ese paso sea abrir tu Biblia esta semana. Tal vez sea apartar unos minutos para hablar con Dios en oración. Tal vez sea perdonar o pedir perdón, o simplemente decirle que sí a lo que Dios está poniendo al frente de ti hoy. Si sientes el deseo de crecer más, de influir positivamente en otros, o simplemente descubrir cómo Dios puede utilizarte, queremos invitarte a Activa. Es un recorrido de cuatro sesiones, todas virtuales, diseñadas para ayudarte a crecer en tu relación con Jesús. Conocer mejor el corazón de nuestra iglesia y desarrollar el liderazgo que Dios ya está formando. No tienes que verte como un líder para participar. No tienes que ser perfecto. Miremos todas estas historias que estamos discutiendo durante esta serie.

Si tienes el deseo de seguir creciendo y servir a otros, Activa es para ti. Nos encantaría, junto a personas como tú, invitarte a este espacio y colaborar y crecer para ver qué es eso que Dios quiere hacer a través de ti en tu vida. Así que puedes escribirnos a hola.crossroads.net para nosotros compartir más información acerca de nuestra próxima sesión. Nos da mucho gusto poder tenerte aquí y esperamos escuchar de ti.