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5 min readSaturated x Deepen with Pastor Jason Shepperd
Pastor Jason Shepperd spent a full year haunted by a message he knew he had to preach. Sitting in the same room at the previous year's Saturated conference, he felt the Lord tell him: "You're gonna share your story publicly here next year." For twelve months, the weight of that call hung on him. When he finally delivered it, he was preaching a sermon he had never given before, in a room where every other speaker had brought their best material. He was terrified until a few days prior. But as he put it, "It just felt like obedience."
The gap in the gospel
The core of Shepperd's message was this: when God crosses a line in your life, it exposes a gap in your gospel. That gap is pain. Most Christians, he argued, have made a silent deal with God — an unspoken boundary. They are functionally saying to God, "This far and no further." They don't know they've made that deal until the pain reveals it.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Saturated x Deepen with Pastor Jason Shepperd
- 2 (00:00) **Opening Vulnerability** - Pastor Jason Shepperd explains why he preached a new, untested message at Saturated instead of his "best of" sermon
- 3 (06:06) **The Gap in Your Gospel** - Defining the core problem: when God crosses a line in your life, it exposes a gap in your gospel—and that gap is pain
- 4 (08:14) **The Crushing That Has No End** - Addressing those who suffer continuous, unrelenting mental and spiritual crushing
- 5 (10:34) **The Lone Man Floating in the Ocean** - Why men reach out to podcasters instead of having real shepherds
- 6 (11:56) **Fight to Live, Surrender to Die** - Practical counsel for someone in the darkest night of the soul
- 7 (13:02) **The Three Questions** - Pastor Shepperd's personal turning point from suicidal despair
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Show Notes
Together with Pastor Jonathan Vinke and Kyle Thompson from Undaunted.Life, Pastor Joby and our guest pastors take a deep dive into what God is doing during Saturated. Our prayer is these conversations help to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Supplemental Resources:
• Jason Shepperd's Books- https://www.amazon.com/Church-House-Churches-Articulated-Ecclesiology/dp/B0B1K5WBLX
• Saturated Night 3: Pastor Jason Shepperd — https://youtu.be/q3lCaBx9VqA
• From Darkness to Life — https://youtu.be/8XxlQQJjVFc
• Saturated 2026 — https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM2k6bqQm3UM&si=VdRiqpNyjr3Wxl0m
The Church of Eleven22® is a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ. Eleven22 is led by Pastor Joby Martin and based in Jacksonville, Florida, with multiple campuses throughout Jacksonville and the surrounding areas.
To find out more about how God is moving in and through The Church of Eleven22, visit coe22.com
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