Tommy Barnett is the Senior Pastor of Phoenix First in Phoenix, Arizona. He talked about how the church ought to make it a priority to make people feel like they belong.

• We should be setting the pace for culture and not having culture set the pace for us
• It is easier to be a member of a country club than a local church
• I believe that God has called us to make the church a place to belong first, and then they’ll start believing
• If you don’t have many cigarette butts around your church, you don’t have much of a church
• Sometimes it takes a little while to clean people up, so we don’t need to turn anyone away
• We’ve got to learn how to get empty vessels into the house of God
• We have made the methods sacred instead of the message

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