This week at EDGE, leader Josh Madzy opens with a math-class analogy every student knows — copying the homework, acing the assignment, then bombing the test — and uses it to ask a harder question: what if we're doing the same thing with our faith? Teaching from John 4 & the Samaritan woman at the well, Josh explains why inherited faith always leaves us thirsty again: it's shallow, it doesn't produce fruit, it's easy to abandon when life gets hard, and it can't stand in for actually knowing Jesus. He points students to the solution — individual surrender to the Savior, which simply means repenting and believing Jesus is Lord — and gives four practical next steps: ask the tough questions, know what you believe & why, use the faith of your family as fuel rather than a substitute, and bring friends to Jesus instead of just telling them about Him. The night ends on one challenging question: do you know Jesus only because someone else does, or have you met Him for yourself?

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This week at EDGE, guest speaker Josh Sonoga — a longtime friend of Pastor James Sabin who serves with Fellowship of Christian Athletes and as WVU's football chaplain — teaches from John 15 on what it actually means to "remain" in Jesus. Using Christ's picture of the vine, the branches, and the Father as the gardener; Josh shows our students that staying connected through prayer, Scripture, worship, and real community is the only way a life produces fruit, because a branch cut off from the vine can't produce anything on its own. He also talks openly about pruning — how the things God cuts out of our lives sting for a moment but always lead to better growth — and shares candidly from his own past that God has since redeemed. The night closes with two questions worth sitting with: what are you connected to, and what is your life producing?

For more information on EDGE Student Ministries, please visit www.edgestudents.org.

For more information on Kingdom: a Community Church, please visit www.kingdomemc.com.

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In week three of our series on Jonah, Pastor James Sabin unpacks the slippery slope of compromise — intentionally living lower than who God created you to be. Reading through Jonah 1:1–9, James shows how the sailors each cried out to their own gods while Jonah slept below deck, and he challenges students to name the "little gods" they trust instead of the one, true & living God: people, devices, or their own ability. Students learn the two marks of compromise — centering life on something other than God (idolatry) and giving lip service instead of true worship — and hear why Jonah called himself a Hebrew before a worshiper. The takeaway: obedience is the Lord's love language, and repentance is always just one step away, no matter how far you've run.

For more information on EDGE Student Ministries, please visit www.edgestudents.org.

For more information on Kingdom: a Community Church, please visit www.kingdomemc.com.

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