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a step towards calling Grace City ‘home’

PROGRAM

1-2pm: Grace City’s Story

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2-3pm: God’s Purposes for his Church + Discussions

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3-4pm: Your Next Steps

connect. discover. enquire. decide.

GRACE CITY’S

STORY

GROWTH

NUMERICAL SPIRITUAL

GRACE CITY’S

STORY

To see thousands of disciples throughout Sydney and beyond who are radically committed to the cause of Christ. By God’s grace they will worship God passionately, love their church deeply and serve their city boldly.

OUR VISION

OUR VISION

To see thousands of disciples throughout Sydney and beyond who are radically committed to the cause of Christ. By God’s grace they will worship God passionately, love their church deeply and serve their city boldly.

To see thousands of disciples throughout Sydney and beyond who are radically committed to the cause of Christ. By God’s grace they will worship God passionately, love their church deeply and serve their city boldly.

OUR VISION

OUR MISSION

To make disciples of Jesus to the glory of God by: 1. Proclaiming the gospel 2. Planting churches 3. Producing resources

OUR CHURCH

OUR CHURCH

see p11.

in booklet

GOD’S PURPOSES

FOR HIS CHURCH

MAGNIFICATION MEMBERSHIP MATURITY MINISTRY MISSION

MAGNIFICATION

God's people are called to live for God's glory.

MEMBERSHIP

God's people are called to be active members of Christ's church.

MATURITY

God's people are called to grow into the image and likeness of Christ.

MINISTRY

God's people are called to use their gifts to serve his church.

MISSION

God's people are called to love the world by making disciples of Jesus.

MAGNIFICATION MEMBERSHIP MATURITY MINISTRY MISSION

M I S S I O N M I N I S T R Y

MAGNIFICATION

MATURITY MEMBERSHIP

LET’S TAKE A BREAK

MAGNIFICATION MEMBERSHIP MATURITY MINISTRY MISSION

GOD’S PURPOSES FOR HIS CHURCH

MAGNIFICATION

God's people are called to live for God's glory.

Romans 12:1-2 I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to

• ffer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to

God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Isaiah 48:9-11 ‘For my name’s sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it from you, that I may not cut you off. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my

• wn sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My

glory I will not give to another.’

DISCUSSION:

Is the Biblical thinking about ‘magnification’ different to your previous understanding or expectation? 
 How/how not?

MAGNIFICATION

God's people are called to live for God's glory.

Romans 12:1-2 I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to

• ffer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to

God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

KEY LEVER:

Sunday Services

DISCUSSION:

If you can recall a season of faith where you have been

• ut of orbit, how did you realign you heart and life

around God? Did it work?

MEMBERSHIP

God's people are called to be active members of Christ's church.

Romans 12:4-5 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

individualism collectivism the individual 
 is sovereign the community 
 is sovereign Biblical
 values

Ephesians 2:4-7 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

DISCUSSION:

Is the Biblical thinking about ‘membership’ different to your previous understanding or expectation? 
 How/how not?

MEMBERSHIP

God's people are called to be active members of Christ's church.

KEY LEVER:

Sunday Cafe

DISCUSSION:

What makes you feel like you’re part of a community? How is that similar/different to the Biblical view of membership (community)?

MATURITY

God's people are called to grow into the image and likeness of Christ.

Romans 8:29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

Ephesians 4:11-14

11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the

evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.

Ephesians 4:22-24

22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to

put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds;


24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true

righteousness and holiness.

DISCUSSION:

Is the Biblical thinking about ‘maturity’ different to your previous understanding or expectation? 
 How/how not?

MATURITY

God's people are called to grow into the image and likeness of Christ.

KEY LEVER:

Community Groups

DISCUSSION:

If you’ve been part of a Community Group before, did you feel like the group was helping you grow into the image and likeness of Christ? How/how not? (don’t worry about naming the church)

MINISTRY

God's people are called to use their gifts to serve his church.

1 Peter 4:10-11 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:10-11 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms […] so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.

Mark 10:42-45 You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

DISCUSSION:

Is the Biblical thinking about ‘ministry’ different to your previous understanding or expectation? 
 How/how not?

MINISTRY

God's people are called to use their gifts to serve his church.

KEY LEVER:

Ministry Interviews

DISCUSSION:

It’s easy to think that ‘up the front’ ministries are more important than ‘behind the scenes’ ministries. How does Jesus challenge this stereotype?

MISSION

God's people are called to love the world by making disciples of Jesus.

Matthew 28:18-20 “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”

2 Corinthians 5:17-19 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of

• view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so

no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

DISCUSSION:

Is the Biblical thinking about ‘mission’ different to your previous understanding or expectation? 
 How/how not?

MISSION

God's people are called to love the world by making disciples of Jesus.

KEY LEVER:

Explore

DISCUSSION:

Take a moment to share with the person next to you about someone in your life that you’re praying for. Pray for them together.

MAGNIFICATION MEMBERSHIP MATURITY MINISTRY MISSION

GOD’S PURPOSES FOR HIS CHURCH

LET’S TAKE A BREAK

YOUR NEXT STEPS

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Growing into the likeness of Christ, under God’s word, in community

“One another-ing” one another

Why commit and attend a CG?

God, you & others

Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday Nights Wednesday Morning Mens Group Thursday Mid-Morning Womens Group No groups during school holidays

The ‘next step’ for a Grace City Member

MINISTRY TEAMS

Joyful + Sacrificial Service

MINISTRY:
 GOOD FOR CHURCH

MINISTRY:
 GOOD FOR YOU

CHURCH NEEDS YOUR
 SKILLS YOUR PASSIONS

CHURCH NEEDS YOUR
 SKILLS YOUR PASSIONS

Joyful + Sacrificial Service

FINANCIAL GIVING

TEXT

2 Corinthians 9:7 “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

2 Corinthians 9:7 “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

2 Corinthians 9:7 “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

2 Corinthians 9:7 “Each of you should give what you have decided in 
 your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

2 Corinthians 9:7 “Each of you should give what you have decided in 
 your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

2 Corinthians 9:7 “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

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