My Story – Week 5 | I Decided to Go

When the safety net you’ve built—career plans, credentials, routine church attendance—starts to feel like it’s holding you back, the pull to step out can be terrifying. This sermon names that exact tension: choosing between personal security and the messy, uncertain work of following Jesus into something new. You’ll hear a pastor’s honest story about leaving a comfortable seminary path, the awkwardness of stepping into campus ministry, and the sting of family and friends who called it reckless. The message isn’t sentimental; it’s practical and urgent. It reminds people that the same power that launched the earliest followers is offered to ordinary people today, that sometimes you need a nudge from others, and that the command is simply to go—start, stop, stay, serve, and finally go. If your next turn feels risky, this talk reframes what courage looks like and what your story might become next.