How We'll Get to Where
God Wants Us to BeFour-step Strategy:
So, where do we start? How do we do what God wants us to do and become what He wants us to become? Through our four-step strategy:
98 percent of churches in North America have no strategy for accomplishing their mission… the number one cause of ineffectiveness in a healthy church. - Will Mancini
Our four-step strategy (missional map) functions
as a locator and a guide for us and for others.
To build a
bigger heaven and
better lives:
1. Go
Matthew 28:19 - So go and make followers of all people in the world. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. (NCV)
Mission: to go to those who are not pursuing a relationship with Jesus Christ, demonstrate Christ’s love with our lives and tell them about Him, our faith and our congregation.
If the finish line is heaven then the starting line is going to people.
Luke 19:10 - The Son of Man has come to seek and to save people who are lost. (GW)
We become most like Christ when we help Him seek and save people.
Tasks or TEAMs:
New Missions Support (TPIM & BMS)
Backpacks of Snacks for Hungry Kids
Individual Missionary Support
Mission Trips
Witness Training
Witness Bibles & Tracts
July 4 Outreach
Welcome Gift for New Homeowners
Holiday Meals/Gifts
Neighbors in Need
RACAP
Advertising
Leader: Toby Molina 210-705-9587
2. Worship
Colossians 3:16 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. (NIV)
Mission: to help others receive God’s Word, His sacraments, His forgiveness and respond with their sacrifices of praise, tithes, offerings and prayers.
Worship is receiving.
Acts 4:13—After they found out that Peter and John had no education or special training, they were surprised to see how boldly they spoke. They realized that these men had been with Jesus. (GW)
Worship is responding.
Nehemiah 8:6,9—Then Ezra praised God, the great God, and all the people responded, "Oh Yes! Yes!" with hands raised high. And then they fell to their knees in worship of God, their faces to the ground… All the people were weeping as they heard the words. (Msg Paraphrase)
Worship transforms us from:
an audience to an army!
members to ministers!
chair sitters to chair fillers!
Tasks or TEAMs:
Prayer
Greeting/Hospitality
Praise TEAM
Nursery
Communion Setup & Takedown
Communion Distribution
PowerPoint Design
PowerPoint Tech
Setup/Takedown
Pull Trailer
Sound Tech
Welcome Gift For First Time Visitors
Decorations & Props
Drama
Resource Table
Leader: Bill Krueger 210-290-8820
3. Learn
Acts 5:42 - Every day in the Temple and in people’s homes they continued teaching the people and telling the Good News—that Jesus is the Christ. (NCV)
Mission: to help people learn and apply God’s Word through home-sized groups or classes.
Being in worship is like being a brick.
If you’re in the building, you’re not really part of the building until you’re connected. All the connected parts support each other.
Ephesians 2:19-22 - God is building a home… He used the apostles and prophets for the foundation. Now he’s using you, fitting you in brick by brick, stone by stone, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone that holds all the parts together. We see it taking shape day after day - a holy temple built by God, all of us built into it, a temple in which God is quite at home. (Msg Paraphrase)
Tasks or TEAMs:
Movers & Shakers
Jam
Tweens
Tweens LifeGroup
Student LifeGroup
Women’s LifeGroup
Men’s LifeGroup
Adults’ LifeGroup
Readers’ LifeGroup
VBS
Leader: David White 210-650-3166
4. Serve
Romans 12:4-5 - Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are all parts of his one body, and each of us has different work to do. And since we are all one body in Christ, we belong to each other, and each of us needs all the others. (NLT)
Mission: to help people experiment with different ministries until they find the ones that fit their unique, God given gifts.
We can be enormously successful and enormously unfulfilled.
Matthew 20:28—The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve. (NASB)
The most fulfilling thing we’ll ever do with our lives is serve God in ministry.
Tasks or TEAMs:
Care Contacts
Connect Contacts
Meals for Ill/Grieving
Fellowship Meals
Web Design
Web Updating
Office Assistants
Repairing
Photography
Property Maintenance
Leader: Nichel Hilman 940-224-2554
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