A lawyer asks Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?" — not looking for information, but for a boundary, a place where love can stop. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike Plunket walks through the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10) and shows why social compassion isn't optional for a Spirit-filled church — it's the fruit that proves the tree is alive.

Mike unpacks how Jesus deliberately flips the lawyer's whole framework, putting the despised outsider in the position of power and the religious insider in the position of powerlessness. He traces this same call through Matthew 25's sheep and goats and James's blunt warning that faith without works is dead — not as a way to earn favor with God, but as visible evidence of a justification that's already complete in Christ.

The episode closes with a simple, personal story: Mike's five-year-old son giving away his entire allowance to a homeless man in Costa Rica, understanding something many adults miss — "that's all right, Daddy. You have more."

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You were built with what Mike Plunket calls an "adoration apparatus" — you were made to worship. The only real question is what you'll worship. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike turns to Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4) to answer three questions: what is worship, how do we worship, and what does worship require of us?

Mike shows that worship, at its root, is "worth-ship" — recognizing something's worth and responding to it, the way a new mother responds to her newborn without being taught how. He offers a simple diagnostic: what makes time disappear, what you worry about most, and where your money goes when things compete for it all reveal what you actually worship, whether or not it's what you'd say you worship.

The heart of the episode is Jesus' call to worship "in spirit and truth" — what Mike calls order and ardor, structure and fire held together. He closes with a question Jesus put to a woman who came to a well expecting judgment: what obstacles are we putting up, when God wants so much to give us Himself?

Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance.

Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA.

This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival, a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket.

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Three thousand people baptized in one day. That's not a strategy — that's a visitation. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival, Mike Plunket sits with a question most of us skip when we read Acts 2: not "how do we admire this?" but "what would it look like if this happened to us?"

Mike shows that revival isn't better programs or getting the culture right — it's the Holy Spirit making Jesus real, not theoretical, to a people and through them to a watching world. Drawing on Tim Keller's "five vitamins" for a living church (teaching, koinonia, worship, evangelism, and social concern), he makes a sobering point: a church can have all five and still be dead without the Spirit's presence animating them together.

The episode lands on a single foundation underneath everything else — a righteousness not our own. Mike draws on Richard Lovelace's observation that most professing Christians, even with sound theology, quietly shift the weight of their acceptance with God onto their own performance instead of resting entirely on Christ's finished work.

Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance.

Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA.

This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival, a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket.

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