Our Job on Sunday Morning

Louie Giglio:

That’s our job every week when we gather here.  These amazing men and women that come and lead us–they’re not here to entertain me and you.  They’re not here to play great music to make us feel good.  They’re not here to kick the gathering off with kind of a nice anthem or two. They are here to say to us “God is holy. God is higher. God is lifted up. God is set apart.”

What is my job in preaching? My job is not to come out here and give little sermonettes that make us all feel good about life, some little cute story we can take home, or to make you like me, or feel good about something in life. My job simply is to remind me every time I stand here: God is God and there is no other. He is in his own stratosphere and he alone holds the highest name above every single name in Jesus.  And when you pray don’t forget that. Make sure you shift into the “hallowed be thy name.”

Our job is to just remind us every week that God is not your “bro.” He’s not “the man upstairs.”  He’s not a little bigger, a little smarter, a little stronger, a little more mature, a little more experienced than us. He lives in a place that is hallowed. And he has a name that is hallowed.  He is higher than our comprehension. He is above anything we have ever dreamed or imagined.

Shifting from Hollow to Hallowed– Passion City Church Podcast 2/20/2013