Encounter Henley Welcomes Preacher: Josh Petrie

"Am I meant for more than this?"

It’s the question that drives every cinematic superhero from Tony Stark to Peter Parker, but as Josh Petrie explores in this challenging message, it is also the deepest question of the human heart. Drawing a line from the silver screen to the Great Commission, Josh examines the weight of conviction—that deciding moment where we choose to let our old selves die to become something new.

Sharing his own journey of joining Encounter Church in 2019 with "no intention of staying," Josh illustrates how a single choice to move from spectator to participant changed his life’s trajectory. He challenges us to stop "domesticating" Jesus by treating church as a Sunday box to be checked. Instead, he calls for a community of Monday Invaders—people who carry the pr ...