September 21, 2026 WEST

What does it look like when God tears something down not to destroy it, but to rebuild it? That is the question at the heart of this session, and it is one that cuts right to the core of where many of us find ourselves today. Drawing from the closing chapter of Amos, we are reminded that even a book filled with judgment concludes with an unmistakable word of hope. God raises up what has fallen. He repairs the breaches. He restores what was lost. The dismantling we experience in seasons of difficulty is not the end of the story. It is the preparation for something greater. We explore how this theme of restoration is not just personal but cosmic, pointing all the way back to the Garden and forward to the fulfillment of God's original intention for His people. The session also draws a powerful parallel between the fall of Babylon in Isaiah 14 and the pride that rises in the human heart when we begin to live for our own name rather than God's. The contrast between a heart that declares 'I will ascend' and the posture of surrender modeled in the Lord's Prayer could not be more striking. If we find ourselves in a season where everything seems to be falling apart, this gathering invites us to see it through a different lens entirely.