Elements City Church
This Is Us - wk4 - Our Mission and Dream
As we launch into 2023 - we're celebrating 10 years as a church and seeing God work in and through His church! We're going to spend some time drilling down on our renewed vision we feel the Lord is leading us to pursue after as we begin the year together. Join us Sundays in January as we each discover our next steps of owning our vision and living it out! This Is Us.
Locations & Times
Elements City Church
1825 N Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ 85712, USA
Sunday 5:00 PM
Thanks for joining us...
Whether you're on-site or online, we are praying that tonight will be an encouragement to your soul. May God whisper to you and help you in taking your next steps in a journey with Him. If you're new, we'd love to have you fill out our connection card.
https://connect-card.com/yr4Y0g8VLBSqzKXeubjbas we continue our new series: This Is Us. All about our VISION & Mission
Elements City Church is...an inviting community of Jesus followers, commissioned by the gospel to make disciples by cultivating relationships with the love of Christ.
Elements City Church is...an inviting community of Jesus followers, commissioned by the gospel to make disciples by cultivating relationships with the love of Christ.
Our Mission is rallied around: 3 Key values: (our HOW / our flavor)
**these 3 values are going to be cultivated within our culture as a church and as a people...
We strive to be a church that will:
REACH people with Jesus
EQUIP people to know Jesus
SEND people out for Jesus
**these 3 values are going to be cultivated within our culture as a church and as a people...
We strive to be a church that will:
REACH people with Jesus
EQUIP people to know Jesus
SEND people out for Jesus
REACH
reach UP - (love God) & reach OUT - (love people)
Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
John 13:34-35
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
reach UP - (love God) & reach OUT - (love people)
Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
John 13:34-35
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
The life of REACHING OUT isn’t about trying to convince people, convict people or coerce people…. It’s a life, centered on LOVE and living out the love of Jesus for others to experience…
REACH OUT INTENTIONALLY…
*we want to challenge each of us in 2023 to focus on what we’re going to call our "1:1:1 initiative"
Each one — Reach one — Each year
REACH OUT INTENTIONALLY…
*we want to challenge each of us in 2023 to focus on what we’re going to call our "1:1:1 initiative"
Each one — Reach one — Each year
EQUIP
YOU have giftings, abilities, passions and a purpose
We’re each UNIQUE, but we’re all called to UNITY under Christ.
= we’re Diverse & Different, but we’re to be unified and ALL becoming mature as the body of Christ
It begins with a simple call from Jesus back to the original disciples:
Matthew 4:18-20
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him.
‘Follow me’
our Definition of discipleship:
“A disciple is someone who knows and follows Jesus, is becoming like Jesus, and is committed to the mission of Jesus.”
discipleship is about equipping people as apprentices / students of Jesus to mature in their faith...
YOU have giftings, abilities, passions and a purpose
We’re each UNIQUE, but we’re all called to UNITY under Christ.
= we’re Diverse & Different, but we’re to be unified and ALL becoming mature as the body of Christ
It begins with a simple call from Jesus back to the original disciples:
Matthew 4:18-20
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him.
‘Follow me’
our Definition of discipleship:
“A disciple is someone who knows and follows Jesus, is becoming like Jesus, and is committed to the mission of Jesus.”
discipleship is about equipping people as apprentices / students of Jesus to mature in their faith...
Pursuing spiritual growth, development, and God’s sanctifying work within us, is meant to be a NORMAL thing, not an optional thing for a disciple of Jesus.
Spiritual depth matters in a superficial world.
— we can grow some on our own, but we’ll never grow to full maturity all alone! We’re made to need one another; you need me, I need you!
(the connected life > surrounded life) *Egroups and Discipleship Groups and Serve Teams...
Spiritual depth matters in a superficial world.
— we can grow some on our own, but we’ll never grow to full maturity all alone! We’re made to need one another; you need me, I need you!
(the connected life > surrounded life) *Egroups and Discipleship Groups and Serve Teams...
SEND
*The word is used often throughout the New Testament.
As a matter of fact, one of the very first words that came out of Jesus’ mouth after he was resurrected was SEND.
“As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” -John 20:21
*The word is used often throughout the New Testament.
As a matter of fact, one of the very first words that came out of Jesus’ mouth after he was resurrected was SEND.
“As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” -John 20:21
Listen as the Apostle Paul describes a life living on mission… living as a Sent One...
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 & 20 (NLT)
Christ’s love controls (compels) us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves... 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
"Our job is to live as God’s ambassadors, building relationships with others."
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 & 20 (NLT)
Christ’s love controls (compels) us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves... 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
"Our job is to live as God’s ambassadors, building relationships with others."
God has put specific people in your life that he desires you to share His Good News with. You might be the only Christian some people ever see.
God will get his message of hope out. But HE WANTS to get it out through us!
Each follower of Jesus is to live sent as an ‘active agent’ for God and His good in this world.
God will get his message of hope out. But HE WANTS to get it out through us!
Each follower of Jesus is to live sent as an ‘active agent’ for God and His good in this world.
OUR DREAM…
In the next 10 years, we dream of becoming a self-sustaining church free to design our ministries as God calls. We envision our own campus in
Mid-town as a hub built for modern ministry.
(highly relational + highly digital), where we gather in community and are sent out as active agents for Gospel impact where we live, work and play. Where we can have a HUB for ministry impact for our city. This is going to take a reserve of resources in order to be ready to respond to the leading and provision of God. We're asking YOU to continue in partnership and/or join in with your generosity to fuel this dream with us and those who are not yet here, but the Lord will bring.
$300,000+ annual budget for ministry, missions, operations and more
-plus-
$300,000 in reserves to be ready to receive anything the Lord directs us toward...
In the next 10 years, we dream of becoming a self-sustaining church free to design our ministries as God calls. We envision our own campus in
Mid-town as a hub built for modern ministry.
(highly relational + highly digital), where we gather in community and are sent out as active agents for Gospel impact where we live, work and play. Where we can have a HUB for ministry impact for our city. This is going to take a reserve of resources in order to be ready to respond to the leading and provision of God. We're asking YOU to continue in partnership and/or join in with your generosity to fuel this dream with us and those who are not yet here, but the Lord will bring.
$300,000+ annual budget for ministry, missions, operations and more
-plus-
$300,000 in reserves to be ready to receive anything the Lord directs us toward...
Thanks for partnering with us...
Thank you for enabling us to be the Church in our city! Your gifts help fuel the mission of Elements City Church, as well as our capacity to share His love with as many as we can. You help us bring the HOPE and LIGHT of Jesus to our city! You can give online at the link below or through the Elements app.
http://elementscitychurch.org/giveWhether you joined us on-site or online, thanks for being with us tonight!
Join us next Sunday as we will looking at our new vision together!
Friends, may you have a blessed week ahead!
Join us next Sunday as we will looking at our new vision together!
Friends, may you have a blessed week ahead!