What if your church's culture is shaped as much by what you allow as by what you promote?

Welcome to Week 7 of Ecclesia: The Church Can Change the World at Sozo Kyle Church. In this message, guest speaker Dustin West (Sozo San Marcos) asks what kind of culture a church is building, and why the answer has to come from the King, not from us. He starts with the gospel Jesus actually preached, the kingdom of God come near, and what it means to repent: to change the way you think about everything. Then he walks through Acts 13:1-3 to show five marks of the culture that made Antioch a church that sent people out to change the world.

Culture is a combination of what we build and what we guard. This message is a challenge to do both, and to ask what part you play in building it.

In this message, we look at:

- Why culture is what we promote and what we allow
- Mark 1:14-15: the kingdom of God has come near, and what "repent" really means
- A five-fold culture: Ephesians 4 and Jesus giving Himself to His church
- A culture of worship and prayer: Exodus 33, Paul and Silas in prison, Peter's release
- A culture that hears and obeys the Spirit: why it's "probably God," not "probably just me"
- An empowering culture: the priesthood of all believers and laying hands on Paul and Barnabas
- An apostolic culture: sending our best, and why you are on assignment wherever you are
- Your kingdom calling and your part in building what God is doing in this region

A kingdom culture doesn't just build a church people want to come to. It builds a church people are sent from.

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

📖 Mark 1:14-15
📖 Acts 13:1-3
📖 Ephesians 4:7-13
📖 Exodus 33:15-16
📖 Acts 16:16-34
📖 John 10:27
📖 Matthew 28:18-20
📖 Numbers 11:24-29

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