They live as fruitful insiders among the lost. Ordinary people, in many walks of life, are joyfully leading integrated lives. As spiritual parents, they model authenticity and relevance. They demonstrate faith and courage as they live and move among their friends and families.
Laborers and leaders are emerging, with an increasing passion for Jesus Christ. Both personally and in committed communities, they seek to know and pursue the purposes of God. They are marked by a deep engagement with and obedience to the Scriptures as the Word of God. Workers for the Kingdom are next door to everywhere! What characterizes this movement?Ī heart for the whole person, climates of grace, compassion for the vulnerable and broken, sacrificial unity embracing diversity, cultural relevance and sensitivity, interdependence with others in the wider family of God, transformed men and women, fragrant with humility and the aroma of Christ. We see a vital movement of the gospel, fueled by prevailing prayer, flowing freely through relational networks and out into the nations. Interdependent relationships in the Body of Christ in advancing the gospel.
Families and relational networks in discipling the nations.Love and grace expressed among us in community.Expectant faith and persevering prayer rooted in the promises of God.The leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit.The truth and sufficiency of the Scriptures for the whole of life.The passion to know, love, and become like Jesus Christ.To advance the gospel of Jesus and His Kingdom into the nations through spiritual generations of laborers living and discipling among the lost. In the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.That the Holy Spirit indwells and gives spiritual life to all believers, enables them to understand biblical truth, empowers them for godly living, and equips them for service and witness.That all who by faith receive the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.In the blessed hope of the personal and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.In the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us, as High Priest and Advocate.That the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
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