Lunch & Vision

Tell the Vision in Story Form - IMAGINE - obedience and availability

Several weeks ago, I told you to story of Mother and 10 year old son...

Went to a long-stay hotel in Kissimmee to share the gospel with people where they met a family… tell the story

Is in awe of God - we aren’t just known for what we do

Love Another - This is part of what it means to be a witness is to one another

People will know that we are followers of Jesus because of how we love and treat one another

Sharing the Gospel from our neighborhoods to the nations.

OUTCOME | The Impact

Generations are changed - as a mother and father pass along their faith to their children, and children’s children

Care

Nations - as we share and as we go. Again reminded of the 10 year old boy and his mother sharing the gospel with a family in Kissimmee. Now there are over 200 Christians in Iran meeting in 15+ churches.

Families - husbands and wives find healing in the marriages, children have the opportunity to grow up with both parents,

Community

Singles, Young and Old, from All walks of life - together

Starting with an individual’s story - being connected to God’s story of redemption/restoration/healing/forgiveness

I want us to be a Church that

Is in awe of God - we aren’t just known for what we do

Love Another - This is part of what it means to be a witness is to one another

People will know that we are followers of Jesus because of how we love and treat one another

Sharing the Gospel from our neighborhoods to the nations.

This is the goal - Where we’ve been - where we are - and the next steps to getting there

Background

CrossPointe church launched in 2001, Under the leadership of Chan Kilgore, with a desire to point our communities to Jesus with an emphasis on local church planting

We’ve helped launch dozens of churches, including six other CrossPointe Congregations. This meant we were one legal 501(c)(3) and shared a common vision along with the shared legal liability.

At the end of 2017 we began to explore the reality of legal autonomy for each congregation while maintaining The brotherhood, support, and shared convictions. The final legal separation took affect September of this year and all seven congregations continued to be committed to one another. Lead pastors talk weekly as we preach to the same book of the Bible, we share resources and ideas, and pray for one another.

We will also continue to be part of acts 29, a diverse and global network of churches planting churches.

In February of this year are founding and lead pastor, Chan Kilgore, resigned and now serves as the director of church planting at Spanish River Church in Boca Raton Florida

Because of the collective decision made among all seven CrossPointe congregations at the end of 2017, each congregation begin to work on personalizing how we will each communicate our VISION and VALUES while remaining true to the original principles we were founded on- That Jesus is Central and all of Scripture and our only source of hope and life is in the Gospel.

OUR VISION & VALUES

Our leadership began praying through this as well and we wanted to give language and clarity for everyone’s responsibility in being disciples who follow Jesus while also making disciples as we point people to Jesus.

Working VISION Statement: The gospel calls us to be disciples who make disciples from our neighborhood to the nations.

Gospel - God moves first, In awe of God, to the praise of God

Be Disciples - we need to be transform. We need forgiveness, we need redemption (inside out)

Mission - to make disciples (local and global)

VALUES (Vital Signs)

This is why we sum up our values as a church in 3 words, GOSPEL (Loving God/Word), COMMUNITY (Loving One Another), MISSION (Living on Mission).

Gospel

Community

Mission

PRESENT REALITY

Season of Transition

Change of Lead Pastor

Change of Location

Changes in our Community

Change in our organization

Then people experienced their own personal changes on top of everything here at the church.

Ministry Expressions

Men’s Ministry

Women’s Ministry

Missions & Outreach

Numerous teams and needs

Care

Equipping for New Christians

Redemption Groups for people in Crisis

AND

Shared leadership, built with many, not a few

Want it to last

Have stability and sustainability (too many false starts or flashes then fades)

FOCUSED GOALS BASED ON TRIMESTERS

SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2018

No more than 3 Goals

Sunday Morning Gathering

God glorifying

Worship, Word, Celebration, CPK, team working together

Community Groups & Body Life

Living out the ‘One Another’ statements

Community Groups (encouraging, equipping, multiplying)

Encouraging & Demonstrating life in the day to day (church picnic, hospitality)

Communication

Equipping Disciples

If we are going to increase our ministry expressions then we need more people equipped for the work of the ministry.

3 Areas of Leadership (we are focusing on each of these this trimester to broader our foundation of leaders before building)

Partners (Body)

Definition - A partner is an adult (18+) who is in covenant relationship with CrossPointe Church and seeks to glorify God by surrendering all of life to Jesus and invites others to do the same by the power of the Holy Spirit.  

Partnership Class - September 26 at 6:00

Requires rewriting our partnership material

Great material but want to press in and focus on the topic of partnership with the church universally and locally / generally and specifically.

Deacons (Care & Leadership)

Definition - Is a man or woman who is an active partner at CrossPointe Church and serves as a leader in various capacities to assist the elders with the ministry and care of the church.

Deacon Training - October 21, 2018

Requires rewriting our deacon training material

Clarify the confusion - have served, didn’t know was a deacon, etc. limited expression

This will lay the foundation for ministry teams and expressions with qualified leaders and plurality of leads

Examples:

Elders (Shepherding & Oversight)

Definition - Is a man who is an active partner at CrossPointe and serves as a shepherd/pastor of the church family in four areas: 1) model godly character and lifestyle, 2) lead the church toward spiritual health, 3) teach and guard sound doctrine in the church, and 4) pray for the glory of god to be displayed in and through our church family.

Elder Candidates - Our desire is to present new elder candidates in November/December (SEAN BATES)

Individual conversations

Present to the congregation before they begin the candidacy phase

JANUARY - APRIL 2019

Partnership Renewal

Expansion of Ministry Teams & Ministry Expressions

Missions & Outreach (leading up to Easter)

MAY - AUGUST 2019

SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2019

Specific equipping for new followers of Jesus

Redemption Groups - people and families in crisis

We’ll look to Jesus with awe and wonder

Put our hand to the plow

Partnership

Deacon

Elder

Trust God with the results

RESPONSE

Are you a partner?

No - sign-up today. If you can’t make September 26 sign up anyway but let them know. We are willing to meet with people in smaller groups or one on one.

Yes - are you engaged? Are you living out the one another statements? Are you connected? Are you participating

Deacon - do you consider yourself a deacon? Would you like to know what this means? Do you want to participate in leadership as we move forward?

Elder Candidates

Who would you recommend?

Model Godly character

lead the church toward spiritual health

teach and guard sound doctrine

man of prayer