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“24”
RePlant 2007
Jeff Jones, Senior Pastor
February 9~/11, 2007
Selected verses
 
Welcome to Replant 2007!
Today is an important day, because today we are taking off on a bold, new journey—replanting our church for the next 30 years of ministry.
In 24, we have seen how God has called each of us to a big mission, with a limited time, and a unique role.
I trust you are here and have hung with this series because you want to live a missional life, you want your life to matter for eternity, you want to jump in with both feet to God’s kingdom work.
That’s what replant is all about.
We are on mission, the ship is taking off, and there is room for you to come along.
What I can promise is that it will be quite a ride.
Before you take a ticket, I want you to understand what this ride is about, what replant 2007 is all about.
If you want to do church as normal, you are going to be disappointed here.
But if you want to be part of a church that is on mission, that is willing to take risks to reach this community, that takes seriously Jesus’ command to make disciples and grow people in the faith, that will be salt and light out in culture, taking the church outside the building with compassion for hurting people, then you are perfect for this journey.
Our mission, handed to us by Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, is bridging people to a growing life in Christ.
And our vision is to touch the lives of the 650,000 people in a 10 mile radius and the billions beyond with the reality of Christ’s love.
God has put us here in a strategic place, in 10 miles, 650,000 lives, most of whom do not know Christ…many of them lost to God spiritually, many of them letdown by churches in the past and cynical, and many hurting and crying out to God.
Our vision is to reach every one of the 650,000 people either indirectly, by reputation as they see and hear about the good works that are being done in the community or by direct contact as we reach them relationally one at a time.
Our vision is to change the perception of church in this area, from a selfish, judgmental group of people, to a community of grace that receives people in as they are, helps them connect to God so they can grow and change, and are equipped to go out and love and serve others outside our community.
That mission and vision isn’t just some gimmicky words made up at a management retreat.
This is a mission and vision that come from the heart of our founder, Jesus Christ.
2000 years ago, he said, “I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”
His dream was for the church to serve as his body, his hands and his feet, his people who would take it on as their mission to help those who are yet to come home, come home….who
would bridge people to life in Christ.
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We are the ones who stand between God and others, and it is our privilege to make the introduction.
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That’s why we are intent on not just making converts, but making disciples…meaning we are bridging people to a growing life in Christ.
We certainly want to reach but we also want to grow and see lives changed.
He said in
 
*Slide :) ______________ *John 20:21
 
, “As the Father has sent me, so send I you.”
As a church we are sent, sent out, not called to just gather together but to scatter and build relationships and express God’s compassion, invite people to consider connection with God, inviting them here where they can pursue that journey, and making God’s love real and tangible as we serve.
That’s what Jesus did, that’s why he was sent, and he says, “Now, I am sending you to do the same.”
A few weeks ago, one of our leaders here at church, a volunteer staff person on our strategic team, was talking to his unchurched partner about the church.
You have to understand his partner is like a lot of people in our culture, positive about God but very ambivalent about the church.
I’d say that’s the norm in the 650,000 people.
He is however not the norm in his profession; he is at the top of his profession as a branding expert.
He is considered one of the top 1-5 branding experts in the country, working with companies like Pepsi, Microsoft, Panera Bread, even worked with Hillary Clinton, remaking her for the senate race in New York.
You may or may not be a Hillary fan, but he did do a good job for her.
He and Mike got into a discussion about church, and I’m sure he was curious why Mike as another very smart guy was involved.
Mike described our church like this.
We are a come as you are church on the front end, meaning that on the front end there is just grace, you don’t have to dress up your life because we can’t anyway.
God is a God of grace, and says come as you are.
No judgment, but grace.
You come as you are, but then connect to God and begin to change.
You don’t stay as you are, and we are committed to each other in that process of growing.
As you begin to grow, you are motivated to take that outside of the church into the community in the form of compassion and grace to our culture.
As his friend heard it, he stopped him and said, “So, your brand so to speak is this: Come as you are and connect to a relationship with God…which means that you won’t stay as you are…and as part of that process you will be motivated to be people of compassion to those in our culture who are hurting…so that the church is a place of grace, connection to God, and compassion to the world.”
He told Mike that we have a real branding problem, because that is now how the world sees us.
The world sees us as judgmental on the front end and uncaring on the back-end.
But he also said if that is really what the church is about, he would love to be part of a place like that…He would love to help us reposition ourselves in our community.
So, we are in discussion with him about how to do that, and it is cool because I can tell he is increasingly intrigued with the church as God envisioned it.
My goal is to get him to help reposition not just our church in this community, but Christianity to this culture.
In the meantime, I love his help and as a non-churched person his heart to say, “If that is what the church is about, I’m interested.
I would love to be part of something like that.”
And I would, too.
That’s why about 27 years ago, I gave my life to this mission, to help build Christ’s church, to do all I could to help build healthy churches that were missional and that could make a difference.
And only by God’s grace did he place me in a church like this, that is healthy and takes the mission seriously.
I don’t know about you, but I feel so blessed to be able to part of what God is doing here.
This is not my work, this is God’s work…I just have a unique role in it as Sr. Pastor, but you have a unique role, too.
God has you here on purpose, not by accident.
We want to be the church of Jesus’ dreams, a church that is on mission, that bridges people to a growing life in Christ.
Because of that mission and our vision related to the 650,000, about 3 or 4 years ago the elders made a very bold decision—to replant our church, to restart our church all over again to reach this community for Christ.
We looked at options.
We knew we needed a new Youth Building, because we have a huge burden and vision to reach the next generation that is increasingly unreached.
We as churches are not gaining ground with youth, and the sad thing is that youth in our culture are spiritually hungry and open.
Our heart is to reach them with the love and reality of Jesus Christ.
Our youth ministers are great, but our vision was to build a place that could become a safe place for youth in our area to hang out, where there would even be people who cared about their life and life direction, who could point them to God.
But what we had was a stinky portable building that was falling apart…that’s what we have.
It is a great portable building, but it is deteriorating as we speak and at its best far short of what we need to fulfill our vision.
We also knew we needed a new children’s building.
Our KidZone had expanded rapidly over the years, and we’ve outgrown it—and it just isn’t designed for our model of ministry.
It worked 15 years ago, but not any more.
We gave KidZone every adult meeting space we had in the meantime, but knew we needed to build a dedicated KidZone building.
With our adults, we multiplied services and started new ones, but you can’t do that forever.
In short, we knew we needed to do something with our facilities.
We looked at doing something on our current property and even hired architects and other consultants to help us figure out how to maximize this property…to build a youth building and children’s building and expand our worship facility on this 11 acres…and we learned that we could do it, if we built a very expensive parking garage, but we’d be landlocked on this 11 acres.
Everyone who worked with us agreed that it just didn’t make any sense to stay here.
We just can’t.
Not only that, but because we are geographically hidden, the people that God has called us to reach don’t even know we are here…so we knew we needed to do something.
We also looked very hard at starting new campuses or even new churches, and we will do those things in the future, but it was very obvious to all of us that it was time to replant this church in this community.
We are barely getting started reaching the 650,000 right around us.
We needed to replant our mother church, and in the future we will start new campuses and churches…but we made a big decision: time to restart, replant our church.
As you know, God provided the land and then through our church and the Imagine campaign, the money to move forward with the new campus.
But please understand, a new campus is just a part of the story…the story is replanting our church in this community.
Starting today, our church is a church plant, and that is a very different mode of doing church than a church in church maintenance mode.
I don’t know if you have ever been involved in a church plant before, but it is a very different way of doing church.
If you’ve ever started a company or been part of a start up, you can relate somewhat.
Entrepreneurs call it the sleeping on the floor stage of a business, where you are doing whatever it takes and working with great intensity.
Same with a new church start.
Christy and I had the privilege of helping a church get started in Minnesota right after seminary, and I was so glad to be part of a church plant.
Being in church planting mode is all hands on deck time, it takes everybody.
In church plant mode, if you were breathing and came more than once, you had a job to do.
There was no room to stand around and say, “one day I’d like to be involved in ministry.”
No way, if you are breathing, you are doing something.
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