Walk Series Week 2

Motion Church | Walk, Week 2: "Walk This Way... At a Different Pace"

What does it look like to walk through life with both purpose and compassion — at the same time?

Continuing the Walk series, this week picks up right where we left off with Jacob, who "wrestled with God and he didn't kill me." That encounter left him with a limp — and a completely different way of walking through life. "Jacob had an experience with God, and he walked differently after that experience."

This week we dig into two seemingly opposite ideas: walking at a pace of purpose, and walking at a pace of compassion. Can you really hold both? Looking at Jesus and the woman with the issue of blood, the answer is yes — Jesus was fully on mission, yet "he was walking at a pace of compassion," stopping in the middle of a crowd for the one person who needed him.

On purpose: "Your purpose is found in the person who was willing to give his life up for you on the cross and then expects you to go and do the same." Walking out that purpose isn't complicated — it's about living a life that honors God, as Romans 12 puts it, presenting your life as "a living and holy sacrifice... which is your spiritual service of worship." As Paul writes in Ephesians 4, we're called to "walk worthy of the calling with which you were called."

On compassion: that limp Jacob carried wasn't for show — "he didn't limp because it was stylistic… he limped because he was hurt." And that's the point. Our own limp — our past, our pain, the moment God met us and changed everything — isn't meant to make us look down on people still walking where we used to walk. Instead, "your limp is a reminder of where you've been, and that you should have compassion for people who are walking like you used to walk."

Also in this episode: a celebration of what God's been doing at Motion Church — Palm Sunday, Easter, and 23 baptisms in one week. "Can we never take that lightly?"

So — let's walk this way: at a pace of passion, and a pace of purpose, simultaneously. "At the end of the day, people are our mission."