"Strategy!" How?

Our mission is to: “Love and Lead real people into the meaningful life Christ intends!”

We each get to own this mission personally! So, what do we do together as a church to help the mission get accomplished?

Our Strategy answers the “How” question!

Or as we say on the website, “We accomplish our mission with a five point strategy! At Point of Grace we each commit to engage in weekly Worship, experience the Alpha Course, Grow in a group, Serve on a team and Bring others who need to discover the meaningful life Christ intends!    

All of us doing all of this all the time!

What about “Serve”?
How does this help to accomplish our mission?

When we Serve (on a team) in Jesus name,

• We get to be transformed by Jesus and
• We get significance from Jesus!

These are two critical dimensions of the “meaningful life”!

Philippians 23 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Notice the role of humility!

Luke 10 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” 41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or in-deed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

John 1 35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!” 37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?” 39 “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.”So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.

He trusts us to Bring!

We trust Him to Jesus!

WEEKLY SCRIPTURE READINGS

Monday:  Luke 10:38-42
Tuesday: Luke 10:25-37
Wednesday:  Philippians 2:1-4
Thursday:  Philippians 2:5-11
Friday:  1 Corinthians 13:1-7
Saturday:  Psalm 1

Strategy! How Do We Do What We Do?

Our mission is to: “Love and Lead real people into the meaningful life Christ intends!”

We each get to own that mission personally!  So, what do we do together as a church to help the mission get accomplished?

Our Strategy answers the “How?” question!

Or as we say on the website,
“We accomplish our mission with a five point strategy! 
At Point of Grace we each commit to engage in weekly Worship, experience the Alpha Course, Grow in a group, Serve on a team and Bring others who need to discover the meaningful life Christ intends!

All of us doing all of this all the time!

• Weekly worship plays is vital for the “meaningful life”!
• What about the “Alpha Course?”
• What is “Bring”?

Two big questions helped form the heart of Point of Grace!

1. Do I (we) have a heart for people far from God?
2. If so, what is my (our) intentional strategy to love and lead them to Jesus and His meaningful life?

Matthew 9
35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.  37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

....ἐσπλαγχνίσθη περὶ αὐτῶν .... “gut stirring compassion” 

John 1
35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!” 37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?” 39 “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.”So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon. 40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. 41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). 42 And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, translated, is Peter). 
 43 The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. 45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”    46 “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked.     “Come and see,” said Philip. 47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.” 48 “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”    49 Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.” 

He trusts us to bring!

We trust him to be Jesus!

Weekly Scripture Readings

Monday:  Hebrews 10:22-25
Tuesday: Matthew 10:35-38
Wednesday:  John 1:35-42
Thursday:  John 1:43-51
Friday:  John 4:28-38
Saturday:  Psalm 9:1-11

Strategy! How Do We Do What We Do?

Strategy for a church’s ministry is defined as:

“the process or picture that demonstrates how the church will  accomplish its mandate (mission) on the broadest of levels.  It  can be described as a missional map, the church’s   organization logic for achieving the mission, the rhythm of  church life as the body of Christ on mission!”

Our mission is to: “ Love and Lead real people into the meaningful life Christ intends!” 
 
So, what do we promote, provide and participate in together as church to help us live out the mission personally and corporately? 
 
The Strategy— 
 
Or as it will say on our new website,

“We accomplish our mission with a five point strategy!   At Point of Grace we each commit to engage in weekly Worship, experience the Alpha Course, Grow in a group, Serve on a team and Bring others who need to discover the meaningful life Christ intends! 
 

Fewer choices brings greater clarity, less distr action and  less confusion about where to go!

“ Churches with a simple process for reaching and maturing people are expanding the kingdom…… Conversely, churches without a  process or with a complicated process for making disciples are  floundering.  As a whole, cluttered and complex churches are not alive.” 

-Thom Rainer

Weekly Worship is essential! 
 
Psalm 42

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.

Psalm 100

1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. 2 Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3 Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. 5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Luke 10

38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” 41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

WEEKLY SCRIPTURE READINGS

Monday: Psalm 42
Tuesday: Psalm 100
Wednesday:  Luke 10:38-42
Thursday:  Hebrews 10:23-25
Friday:  Luke 12:1-8
Saturday:  Psalm 62