Church Culture - Missional Living

The early church clearly understood Jesus’ Great Commission as seen in Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 24:44-49; and John 20:19-23.

The church’s mission is to be Christ’s witnesses and to follow Jesus’ plan for disciple-making.  

1. Come and see; 
2. Follow me; 
3. Abide in me; and 
4. Go and tell.  

This strategy is a circular repeatable pattern that we can follow.
 
As each person in our church begins to realize Paul’s point in Colossians 1:27, “Christ in you, the hope of glory”-the church will be transformed and revitalized, and the Great Commission will become a reality in our community (The Overseer, pp 116-117).  If we desire to lead the church through the revitalization process, then we must dedicate ourselves to becoming a culture of making disciples in the power of the Holy Spirit.  This is the will of God.
 
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.  I Timothy 2:3-4
 
Pray for effective outreach in our community which starts with a recognition of where people are and then invites them to take steps towards where the Lord desires them to be (The Overseer, pg 123).
 
A whole church can transition from being an inward-focused church to an externally focused church when just a few people are intentional about living a missional way (Life on Life Missional Discipleship). The key to being obedient and living a missional life is found in the verse below,   “…they had been with Jesus.”  When we spend time with Jesus in His Word and in prayer, He empowers us to be bold witnesses for the building of His Kingdom.
 
“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.”  Acts 4:13