VISION STATEMENT
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starting our series on vision
prayer
wanting a logo that epesented newstead, Seeing the door frames
OPEN DOORS, CONNECTING CHRIST AND COMMUNITY
OPEN DOORS, CONNECTING CHRIST AND COMMUNITY
doorways in the bible - Dangerious Holy God - when you go through a door you transison from one space to another
Eden, tabernacle, threshing floor, temple, Jesus - I am the gate, narrow and wide gate
Discipleship - sermon on the mount
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Prayer - ask, seek, knock
Relevant for those considered disciples of Jesus and others who are searching
Games, movies, running from danger and need a door to open
Narrow and wide doorway/gate
Also Revelations - Referred to a luke warm church
We are to lead people to the open door, we are to be the open door
How do we do that:
· Connected and committed to Jesus Christ
· Connected and committed to Jesus Christ
paternership pledge
· Serving God and others with our lives, gifts and resources
· Serving God and others with our lives, gifts and resources
action on the goldern rule
· A community, guided by the Holy Spirit, known for faith, hope and friendship
· A community, guided by the Holy Spirit, known for faith, hope and friendship
Acts church
My uncertainty of these values - canoeing the mountains by Tod Bolsinger
FRIENDSHIP
FRIENDSHIP
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command.
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
My question about why there is love in the world
Missused verse - war
D. A. Carson, The Gospel according to John- Friends are informed of Jesus thinking, enjoy his confidence and learn to obey with a sense of privilege and with full understanding of their master’s heart.
· Showing Christ to others in words and deeds
· Showing Christ to others in words and deeds
What Jesus commands us to do (stated above) got to be more than a head knowledge
Hospitality - friendship
- Jacob Cooper
Discipleship
- friends that encourage and challeng us - lifegroups
Intergeneration
- Churches are one of the only places we get this special intergenerational community
Connection in the building
- friendships with the people using our space
· Praying for people
· Praying for people
· Building friendships and getting to know people through hospitality
· Building friendships and getting to know people through hospitality
· Sharing God’s love in how we care for people
· Sharing God’s love in how we care for people