In A Jesus Culture: Live and Love Like Jesus (1 John 4:9–12), this message sets the tone for the kind of church culture that doesn’t happen by accident. Culture is the current you live in, and over time it carries you somewhere. So the question is uncomfortable on purpose: if someone studied your life for 30 days, what would they conclude you love most? Not what you claim. What you move toward, protect, spend on, and get worked up about. Because culture isn’t your mission statement, it’s your Monday. And a Jesus culture isn’t a vibe or a brand. It’s a way of life where the values of Jesus become the normal rhythm.

The foundation is God’s love. 1 John 4 reframes real love as something God initiated, not something we earned. The message drives it home with a story from the day Ezra bought Kendra’s ring, watching a dad patiently help his little girl keep getting up on the ice. That moment becomes the lens: confidence in every relationship rises or falls on confidence as a son or daughter. If you don’t know you’re loved, you’ll turn love into a performance, relationships into competition, and people into projects.

From there, the love of God moves in a simple flow: received, then released. Jesus’ summary of the good life isn’t one command but two, love God and love your neighbor. The message breaks that into three directions that shape a Jesus culture: upward love for God in daily devotion, inward love for believers marked by real sacrifice, and outward love for those not yet in the family, treating them like they already belong. The close is practical: you don’t drift into this, you decide it, and you build it with a plan.