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Pastors Brian Conyers & Scott Guhlke, September 2, 2012
Disciplemaking & Mission are we willing to make a difference? - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Disciplemaking & Mission are we willing to make a difference? - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Disciplemaking & Mission are we willing to make a difference? Pastors Brian Conyers & Scott Guhlke, September 2, 2012 What do we mean by Disciplemaking & Missional? Disciplemaking Missional Obedience to Gods call if
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Disciplemaking
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Missional
✤ Obedience to God’s call if
you’re a Christ-follower
✤ Outwardly focused - public ✤ Mindful and effective
culturally
✤ A way of living
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Writing about the early Church (1st & 2nd century)...
“Christians were different--too different, in most people’s
- view. Whether non-Christians admired or despised them,
everyone could see that the early Christians were a distinct people living a distinctive way of life. As people, for example, they had an evident care for one another. And they handled the aspects of daily living--family and work, time and money, ambition and anxiety--in a noticeably distinctive way.”
- LEADING CHRISTIANS TO MATURITY, by Kevin Perrotta
Missional
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Missional
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VISION for Harvest: Disciplemakers on Mission!
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Missional Community
✤ 25-40 people on “mission” ✤ Led by trained Disciplemakers ✤ People drawn to the mission
rather than personalities or study topics
✤ Not a small group, but could
be made up of a few existing small groups
✤ Extended family
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You are EQUIPPED
✤ We say “I can’t do this” -- but God can, through you, Act 1:8 ✤ Moses’ 5 objections - do these look familiar? ✤ Who am I that I should go? ✤ Who should I say sent me? ✤ They won’t believe me ✤ I can’t speak well ✤ Send someone else
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✤ Peter also pushed back... ✤ his own strength got him in trouble ✤ Then...he became the ‘rock’ that the church was built upon ✤ For YOU ✤ Acts 1:8 ✤ Acts 2:38
You are EQUIPPED
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Look for OPPORTUNITY...
read the blog at www.brianconyers.com
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