VISION STATEMENT

starting our series on vision

prayer

wanting a logo that epesented newstead, Seeing the door frames

OPEN DOORS, CONNECTING CHRIST AND COMMUNITY

doorways in the bible - Dangerious Holy God - when you go through a door you transison from one space to another

Eden, tabernacle, threshing floor, temple, Jesus - I am the gate, narrow and wide gate

Discipleship - sermon on the mount

Matthew 7:7–8 NIV

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Prayer - ask, seek, knock

Relevant for those considered disciples of Jesus and others who are searching

Games, movies, running from danger and need a door to open

Narrow and wide doorway/gate

Also Revelations - Referred to a luke warm church

We are to lead people to the open door, we are to be the open door

How do we do that:

· Connected and committed to Jesus Christ

paternership pledge

· Serving God and others with our lives, gifts and resources

action on the goldern rule

· A community, guided by the Holy Spirit, known for faith, hope and friendship

Acts church

My uncertainty of these values - canoeing the mountains by Tod Bolsinger

FRIENDSHIP

John 15:12–15 NIV

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

My question about why there is love in the world

Missused verse - war

D. A. Carson, The Gospel according to John- Friends are informed of Jesus thinking, enjoy his confidence and learn to obey with a sense of privilege and with full understanding of their master’s heart.

· Showing Christ to others in words and deeds

What Jesus commands us to do (stated above) got to be more than a head knowledge

Hospitality - friendship

- Jacob Cooper

Discipleship

- friends that encourage and challeng us - lifegroups

Intergeneration

- Churches are one of the only places we get this special intergenerational community

Connection in the building

- friendships with the people using our space

· Praying for people

· Building friendships and getting to know people through hospitality

· Sharing God’s love in how we care for people