Culture of a Surrendered Heart - Zach Nash - CR Summer School 2022

Zach Nash continues the series on the book of Acts talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He shares his own experience encountering the Holy Spirit for the first time in Teen Challenge. He clarifies some of the misconceptions about the infilling of the Holy Spirit and explains why it's so important for us. It's an important message for us to allow God's Spirit to fill our lives and treasure his Spirit in us.

Peter Louis begins the second day teaching about the perfection of the cross. He talks about how our old self has been buried and how we must walk in the new inheritance he’s given us. He talks about how we must release the power we’ve given to man-made ministry and behold the power of the cross. He dives deep into a revelation of the cross and the resurrection of Jesus and he tells us to surrender to the crosses all encapsulating love of God.

Peter Louis starts day one of gospel week explaining how we must not only know the gospel, but we must also consume and take part in it. He urges us to never look beyond the cross and the sacrifice of Jesus for everything, because everything else will fall short of our expectations. It’s an invitation to allow the gospel to offend, change, and speak truth into our lives and never move past the blood of Jesus.

Michael Pierce teaches during Voices week on the importance of understanding the significance of Christianity in all races and cultures. He goes into the scriptures to highlight the evidence of people from many different backgrounds that were affected by God and the Bible. He confronts the belief that Christianity belongs only to white men by talking about the history of missions while also addressing the history of injustices done by people who've warped Christianity.

Yasmine Pierce teaches on understanding on having a worldview of how important it is to use the power of our voice to empower the marginalized. She teaches how biblically the scripture teaches us that Jesus has a plan to have all nations come to himself. She emphasizes the fact that laborers are few and that many people have been disempowered to preach the gospel because of their ethnicity. It’s an important topic because it was the heart of Jesus’ ministry to empower the marginalized and broken, and believers it is something we must emulate.

Matthew Nelson teaches on the topic of injustices from the Freedom Manual. He explains how injustice is usually the root of strongholds and sin patterns and teaches us to aim for the roots of injustice to experience true freedom. He teaches us how to recognize injustices in our lives and uses the Freedom Manual to create a framework for pulling the root of injustice.

Matt finishes off the week teaching on power and authority, defining both and teaching on why both are so important as a Christian. He goes into scripture to reveal how both power and authority have been given to those who believe in Jesus and how to operate in both against the schemes of the enemy.

Matt Nelson teaches the CRX about the importance of taking authority over words and phrases that come out of our mouths. He teaches us how powerful speaking words of life are in spiritual warfare and how dangerous words of death can be.

Matt Nelson defines for us what strongholds are in spiritual warfare and he gives us tools to operate in spiritual warfare. He gives us practicals for walking in breakthrough with the 4 r's from the Freedom Manual.

Matt Nelson overviews freedom and teaches on Original Design from the Freedom Manual. He draws our attention to the freedom and deliverance that Jesus brings to us by our identity. It goes against our own perception of freedom that we expect a harsh rebuke or correction and is done in love.