Yesterday, 170 adults (and 25 kids) gathered to talk and dream about Faith's new campus in Hammond, Indiana. The feeling in the room was electric; there is a real sense that God is up to something. It will be fun to watch and see what God does in the weeks and months to come. Below is a recap of what we talked about yesterday.
The goal of our interest meeting was to share how Faith Church, Hammond would live out Faith's vision: "reach the disconnected and grow the connected." We made three points:
1) We will live out the vision by being a campus that reaches out to the least, the lost, and the broken. It is our hope to be a community that is full of people who desperately need Jesus. We want to have a relevant worship experience so that people can encounter the living Jesus. And we want to learn how to intentionally go outside of the walls to share Jesus to our neighbors.
2) We will live out the vision by being a campus that takes seriously the call to be disciples. We don't want simply to be religious consumers, we want to be fully participating in God's great story. We want Christ to be formed in us, so we will intentionally, creatively, and intelligently say "yes" to Christ's pursuit of every area of our lives.
3) We will live out the vision by being a community that equips one another to do the work God has called each of us to do. We want to be an empowering community. We want to equip one another to take risks for God and his kingdom. We don't want anyone on the sidelines but each one doing what God has called him/her to do.
That's the recap. Anything else you would like to see the community become or do?
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