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We are a community with a “missional approach” that has an organic flow that is committed to producing authentic followers of Christ by creatively engaging the culture with innovative connections and conversations.
I know what you're asking right now, 'What in the world does all that mean?'
Well let me try to help.
Missional = We believe that each follower of Christ should be on mission for Him.
Organic Flow = We believe that it's the Holy spirit that leads us and that His leading is always moving. It's more like a river than a systematic model to be followed.
Authentic Followers = Just because you go to a church that does not mean that you are a true follower of Christ. To be authentic you must live as Jesus lived, love what Jesus loved and leave behind what Jesus left behind. (More on that later)
Creatively engaging the Culture = This simply means getting outside of the church walls and engaging the culture in stead of condemning it. Being salt and light in a dark and tasteless world.
Innovative connections = This means that we have to be out in the world and not be a part of it. We have to connect with those who are disconnected with Christ and His church. We should not expect them to just blindly embrace our Christian culture without first seeing Christ alive in us out in the 'Real World'.
Conversations = This means that we have to communicate with people what it means to be a follower of Christ. It helps when you use words that go with your deeds.
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We believe that the Lord laid it on our heart to get out of our rut of just going to church every week. We were expecting the world to come to us instead of us going out into the world. We needed to find a way to keep us hungry for the Lord and His mission. So, we went mobile. We moved from Mesquite to Royse City and moved into the Anita Scott Elementary School on I-30. We had to face the fact that the Lord has called us to be on mission for Him, not to hide behind Him in some church building. With all the negative press one can find these days that relate to ministers or so-called prophets, it's no wonder that the world has a hard time believing our message. So, we decided that we needed to actually live out our faith in plane view. We need to display the love of Christ and only expect people to believe after they see that our faith is real and relevant.
We have ministries that range from Hiking to motorcycle groups. We help hundreds of children each year by giving out school supplies and we do our best to help each individual that we can. We have most of our study groups out in public places like restaurants, coffee shops or where ever we can meet. Of course, some of our sharing groups meet in homes were prayer requests and personal information is kept private. We also believe that the most effective way to reach this city and nation with the gospel is through Church Planting. That is why we hope to plant at least 5 new churches in the next 5 years. We also believe that the local church should train and mentor these new church planters. Recently we sent off one of our staff members to Florida to plant a new church and another one our members moved to Africa to help start an orphanage to hundreds of children that have seen their families die from Aids.
We don't claim to be prefect or have a new message from God. We just believe that many in the church have forgotten what Jesus actually told us to do. Evey one of us are called to make disciples. Paying someone else to do it for you will not cut it with the Lord. The only option is to get out there and live it and share it.
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