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A guide to understanding the mission of a great church from God, focusing on maturity, ministry, missions, and knowing Christ. Join our upcoming Welcome Class and discover how believers are created for Kingdom work. Explore spiritual gifts and be part of local and intercontinental missions. Embrace the call to evangelize and make disciples in today's changing church landscape.
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KINGDOM VISION Your Kingdom Come Your Will Be Done…. A Great Church is on a Mission from God
Maturity Magnify Member Ministry Missions
Maturity Knowing Christ Magnify Member Ministry Missions Partnering
Our next Welcome Class will be held: Sunday, February 10th (6:00 – 8:00 p.m.)
Growing in Christ Maturity Knowing Christ Magnify Member Ministry Missions Partnering
Serving Christ Growing in Christ Maturity Knowing Christ Magnify Member Ministry Missions Partnering
Believers are created for Kingdom Work Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Spiritual gifts Heart Abilities Personality Experience
Networking Four Consecutive Wednesdays Beginning February 6th 7:00 – 8:30p.m.
Serving Christ Growing in Christ Maturity Knowing Christ Magnify Member Ministry Missions Sharing Christ Partnering
“Mission” comes from the Latin word for "sending."
John 20:21-22 “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you."
What is our Mission? To introduce lost people to God Lost people matter to God!
2 Corinthians 5:18 "Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also." Today’s English Version
The Great Commission Matthew 28:19-20 - Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Acts 1:8 - You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Local Missions Regional Missions Missions Inter-continental Missions Continental Missions
Ebenezer Bible Fellowship Church Our message must be incarnational God is Love
Our message must be transformational The goal is to make disciples of Jesus
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The percentage of adults in the United States disconnected from church is increasing.
The negative perception of the church by unbelievers is increasing.
“If our church would cease toexist, how many people from our community would weep?”
Missional Church A "missional church" is a church that acts like a missionary in its community.
Two Approaches to Evangelism • The “Come and See” Approach 2. The “Go and Be” Approach
Jesus calls us not only to come to Him, but to go for Him
A Missional Church Embraces: • The call of God to be engaged with the culture without being absorbed by the culture
A Missional Church Embraces: • Sacrificial service as a means of engaging our culture
A Missional Church Embraces: • Prayer for God to move in hearts
A Missional Church Embraces: • A sense of urgency about its mission
John 20:21 As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.
Our mission can either be: • Church led • Custom fit
“Our mission has eternal signifi-cance. It will impact the eternal destiny of other people. The consequences of your mission will last forever. Nothing else we do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.” Rick Warren
John 15:8 - This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
2 Corinthians 3:18 – We who…all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory , which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.