So as a believer, as someone who is mature, as someone who is doing the stuff, we should be the first to cheer, to encourage, to bless, to help, to sow seeds, to be the church. So it's got to start with you and me. Now, if you're not a believer yet you should not be doing that, but I thought it made sense.
The church is all about cheers because there's a game going on, there's this spiritual warfare. Now yes, we're fighting from victory, we win and all that; yet, it's spiritual warfare. There's nothing like the local church. Well there is tension when you've got a game going on, right? There's tension. And I don't know about your family but sometimes we have tension in our family.
Tension is good. [Ed does hand gesture], Here's the church, there's the steeple, open the doors and see all the cheering people. When you have a bunch of people cheering, you're going to have some tension. People like to [Ed makes a whispery fighting noise] one another and what do you have? Tension. [Ed cheers], We've got tension, yes we do, we've got tension, how about you?
Well I want to throw out some things that will cause some tension. They do cause tension and this is good. Here's the first one. If you've got a pen or pencil you will want to write this down.
The first area of tension would be quality and quantity. That's an area of tension. Quality, quantity. Quality, does it produce quantity or quantity produce quality? You know what, we want quality. I'm into quality. How many of you were not the first born in your household? You were not the first born. What if your parents said, you know what, we're going to stop after the first child because we want the quality child. You would not be here. People say, I want a church that's into quality. Okay, good. So am I. If you think that quality is the answer then the best church would have one member.
I say quality breeds quantity and quantity breeds quality. I love to fish. I was Gar fishing yesterday. I don't want to catch one big Gar, I want to catch a bunch of big Gar. Quality Gar, quantity Gar. That's good, there's that tension. Fellowship Church, we have, you talk about quality. The core of our church is unbelievable. The cheering section that never sits down, the core here at Fellowship Church.
The other day I was in the north speaking at this church, this is a great, great church. It is really, really growing and the pastor began to say, You know what
Ed Young Pastor, some people around the community, some of the professional Christians, you know, the people that Jesus had problems with, the religious people he said, They're just taking shots at us saying that we're not deep and we're shallow. I said, Man, man, whoa, whoa, whoa, just chill. I said, Just relax. I said, I've heard all of that.
