God hasn't called us to make church-people busy with church activity. He has called us to make disciples! (Matthew 28:19-20)
A disciple isn't a religious nut who wears a long robe, sports a long beard, and carries a 20-pound King James Bible. He is a person who embraces self-denial, sacrifice, and even death to follow Christ, but discovers hope, meaning, joy, and abundance in the journey and in the end, eternal life. (Matthew 16:24-26; Mark 10:28-31)
So how do we go to the next level as a disciple-making church?
In July of this year I asked three people to lead three teams to prayerfully consider what it will take for us to become a more effective, disciple-making church and to draft a plan that would answer the question above.
At the end of August, these three teams came together to present their proposals and interact with one another.
Since that time, I have met repeatedly with Steve Acord, Joy Rounsavall, Matt Skinner, Tessa Valle, and Johnny Wilson to glean some of the best ideas from the team proposals and prayerfully put them together in a unified ministry plan that we believe can help guide us to the next level as a disciple-making church.
Over the next few weeks I would like to share with you some of the ideas that have come out of this process.
Warmly in Christ,
Pastor Gary
Acts 20:24
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