September 6, 2026

What if the most important question we could ask ourselves today is not about our own spiritual comfort, but about someone else's eternity? That is the challenge at the heart of this message. Drawing from Luke 15, we are invited into a powerful exploration of what it means to be burdened for the people in our lives who are far from God. Jesus tells two stories back to back, a shepherd who leaves 99 sheep to find one that is lost, and a woman who turns her entire house upside down searching for a single lost coin. The point is not the sheep or the coin. It is the person. It is always about the person. We are challenged to think of one specific individual, someone with a name and a face, someone we love, who does not yet know Jesus. When we attach a name to the mission, everything changes. The search becomes urgent, personal, and unstoppable. Heaven itself rejoices when one sinner repents, which means our one is not just important to us. They are important to God. This message calls us to move from passive belief to active, sacrificial pursuit of the people around us who are still lost.