Where We Are and Where We’re Going – Sunday, May 30, 2021
Hebrews 13:17-18 (MSG) Be responsive to your pastoral leaders. Listen to their counsel. They are alert to the condition of your lives and work under the strict supervision of God. Contribute to the joy of their leadership, not its drudgery. Why would you want to make things harder for them? Pray for us. We have no doubts about what we’re doing or why, but it’s hard going and we need your prayers. All we care about is living well before God. Pray that we may be together soon.
- Both hands are on the “baton” of leadership
(1) Pastor Duane’s Role: “Senior Founding Pastor”
- Dedicated to “prayer and ministry of the Word.” (Acts 6:2-4)
- Senior Elder — oversight, accountability, checks and balances
- Apostolic (multi-regional oversight) authority over campuses (current and new)
(2) Pastor Jacob’s Role: “Senior Lead Pastor”
- Leading our church in the mission, vision, and structure
- Shepherding through teaching
- Leading and Developing the Campuses
Core Values
(1) Generational
Psalm 78:4-8 (ESV) We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments; and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
- References: Psalm 79:13, Psalm 145:4 Judges 2:10-12
1 Peter 5:5-6 (ESV) Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you
- References: Ephesians 5:21, 2 Timothy 2:2
(2) The Word
Matthew 13:31-33 (ESV) He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”
- Inspiration—Revelation—Integration—Transformation
- Seeing people transformed by Jesus —> see cities transformed by Jesus