Taste & See Part 3
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This Week at The 316 Church
Date: February 22, 2026
Speaker: Pastor Cameron Jackson
Sermon Series: Taste & See
Message Title: Church of Good Intentions
Scripture Focus: Psalm 34:8, Matthew 161
Message Summary: This powerful message confronts a critical gap many of us experience: we know God is good, but we struggle with the church. Drawing from Psalm 34:8 and Matthew 16, we're invited to explore why we can love Jesus yet feel wounded by His people. The teaching unpacks the dangerous philosophy of 'good intentions' that can infiltrate church culture—where belonging and believing become conditional on behaving. This performance-based spirituality mirrors the Pharisees' demand that Jesus prove Himself through signs, rather than simply trusting Him. The sermon reveals how this 'yeast' of legalism spreads, creating environments where we either comply or fake it, hiding our struggles while exhausting ourselves trying to prove we're worthy. But Jesus offers a radically different path: not rules, but values; not external behavior modification, but heart transformation. He cares more about the condition of our hearts than our outward performance. The liberating truth is that we're called to a journey of becoming—sanctification as a process of learning, practicing, and growing more like Christ. When we shift from striving to please God through performance to simply trusting Him, we discover true freedom. Our identity isn't found in what we do once, but in our repeated patterns as we abide in Christ. This message challenges us to examine whether our intentions match our direction, and whether we're trapped in exhausting performance or resting in transformative trust.
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