The community and region would feel the impact of all of this. |
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Every home would have healthy conversations re spiritual issues were raised and wrestled with together. Each would become a spiritual lighthouse in its community, causing neighbors to feel loved on, appreciated, and inspired to ask questions about Christianity or for prayer (maybe even without believing in either… yet). |
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Offices, cubicles, factory lines, and the workplace as a whole would transform from “places where we did our jobs and got a paycheck” to “mission fields where the world paid us for our skills while God used us as His representatives in those fields.” |
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People would know the message of Jesus in the region, perhaps without even knowing why. Perhaps simply by the experience of going to certain places and interacting with certain people, they would have the sense of a kind of care and concern unlike anything they’ve experienced and redefine their definition of Christianity. |
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A missional spirit would invade matters of social justice, causing the battered and bruised to be cared for while proactively healing the very systems that that hurt them in the first place. |
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The church itself would be more than a building...
more than an organization.
It would be an organic environment of people and God unlike any other. |
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As He did something special in and through this mysterious union of the ordinary and the extraordinary, people distant from the Lord would be drawn near to him and spiritually dry Christians would experience the Living Water again. Everyone would get a clean slate, feel at ease to be themselves, and be loved forward to whatever step of growth was next. Instead of wasting energy being fake or making up rules that the Creator never intended for us to create, we'd laugh out loud and weep hot tears as we wrestled over the things that really matter.
I believe that this is the kind of church that pleases God...
and it is in my heart to be a servant-leader in a church that measures success: |
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By life… the continual search and rescue of new people who are trusting in Jesus as Lord/Savior. |
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By weight... the quality of a relationship with God that is always taking the next step. |
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By sacrifice... the growth curve of Christ-like character that creates selfless living. |
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By authenticity... the transparency of community where clean slates are continually offered. |
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By proclamation... the willingness to contagiously communicate the Gospel regardless of competence. |
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By extension… the continuation of the dream into all cultures and generations. |
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This is the dream I'm giving my life to. care to join me? |
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- Tony Myles, Lead Pastor |
