This week at EDGE, guest speaker Kyle Majnarič — a former WVU wide receiver turned Nashville singer-songwriter — brings a message called "Leave the Nets," born out of a trip to the Sea of Galilee where Jesus first called His disciples. Walking through Matthew 4, Luke 5, and John 21, Kyle shows students the two times Peter left his nets: once when Jesus called him, and again after the resurrection, when Peter had slipped back into old habits and Jesus met him right where he was. He challenges students to name both kinds of nets in their own lives — the ones we cast ourselves (pride, performance, identity built on achievement) and the ones that get cast on us (idolatry, addiction, anxiety, guilt and shame) — and reminds them that Jesus never needed full nets to call anyone, because faithfulness comes before fruitfulness. The night closes with an original song Kyle wrote around the message.

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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?

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

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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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