Wow! I Love My Church #2

Wow! I Love My Church #2 I Love Our Vision! Part 1

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • WE WILL #1 (Matthew 9:9-13)

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • Treat each individual, regardless of standing, with fairness, dignity, and personal respect. Christ did not come specifically to the well-heeled, but to those who were in need.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 Matt 9:9 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 10 And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 11 And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 12 But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 13 Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • WE WILL #2 (Deut. 6:1-2, 5-9)

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • Parents: We will be a partner in the training of their children in the ways of God. We will provide adult training with the expressed goal of assisting them in making life decisions that will enhance their walk with God and their relationships with family.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • We will provide training to assist them in making lifestyle choices that will enhance their quality of life spiritually, domestically, financially, and in all aspects of their daily walk.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 Deut. 6:1“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 2 that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • WE WILL #3 (Matt. 19:13-15)

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • Children: We will provide an active, vibrant ministry. We will strive to create a fun environment that will both instill a knowledge and love of Christ along with a desire to come to church, thereby helping the family grow spiritually.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 Matt. 19:13 Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people,

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 14 but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 15 And he laid his hands on them and went away.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • WE WILL #4 (Eccl. 11:9-10; 12:1)

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • Youth: We will provide a worship environment and recreational activities that appeal to their generation, while always remaining true to the teachings of God’s word. We will provide an opportunity for them to grow spiritually, socially, and emotionally at a challenging time in their lives.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • While providing opportunities for them to serve and to grow, we will remain aware that they are at a real turning point in their lives, also having a need to be served. We will help them learn how to build strong personal relationships thereby strengthening the family unit and preparing them for their future.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 • We will focus on the fact that this is the point of their life where we, as their church, have the greatest opportunity to help them to become strong Christian adults.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 Eccl.11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 10 Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

I Love Our Vision! Part 1 Eccl. 12:1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Wow! I Love My Church #2