• Posted in Relationships, Service, Vision, Youth Ministry
A couple weeks ago (Sunday, January 20), the youth group set up an enormous shipping center in our church to bless our troops.
• Posted in Discipleship, Evangelism, Gospel, Life in the Church, Mission, Service, Vision, Women’s Ministry
Julie Roe reposts on serving the needy at the Holly Springs Food Cupboard.
• Posted in Evangelism, Life in the Church, Mission, Service, Vision, Women’s Ministry
Glenda Arnold share about serving the needy and evangelizing the lost at With Love From Jesus.
• Posted in Evangelism, Service, Vision
"Mommy, can we start a club where we do things that help people?" my son asked a while ago after we'd dropped off some items at the food pantry in Apex. He loves coming along to donate stuff and seeing what they do there....but he's too young to volunteer because they have minimum age requirements. Eventually we settled on the idea of planning several service opportunities and projects where kids can serve alongside adults and the "Disciples Club" was born!
• Posted in Church Plant, Evangelism, Life in the Church, Vision
Over the last couple of weeks we've been looking at SGC's vision, answering the question, What is SGC to be about? I hope the answer to that question has been made a bit clearer through these blog posts. But there is one last piece of the puzzle to consider.
• Posted in Life in the Church, Mission, Service, Vision
Let's think about what it means that we serve the needy in our communities, helping God's love to be experienced and not merely heard, encountered and not merely preached.
• Posted in Discipleship, Evangelism, Life in the Church, Mission, Sanctification, Service, Vision
Everything the Bible records about Jesus—his birth, actions, teachings, miracles, cross, resurrection, etc.—is written with God's Holy Spirit highlighter that says, "Catch this! It is important!" The words about Jesus are not more inspired than the rest of Scripture, but there is a unique importance to them that has appropriately made them central to the church's reading and teaching for two thousand years.
• Posted in Fellowship, Life in the Church, Relationships, Vision
Proverbs 29:18 says that "where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, but happy is he who keeps the law." That word "unrestrained" is also used in Exodus 32:25 where at the scene of the golden calf, "Moses saw that the people were out of control." When we lack direction and clarity about vision we may not necessarily build golden calves, but we will fail to move forward together....A church needs vision because people need vision.
• Posted in Life in the Church, Vision, Worship
If you're going to get a group of people to work together on something you have to be clear about what it is you're trying to do. To get two dozen skilled workers together to build a house, you need clear blueprints and a clear schedule to make sure that the right house gets built. Otherwise you might get a beautiful kitchen in the middle of an empty lot! Building a church is no different. There are a lot of different "blueprints" a church could choose to be about. What are we about at SGC?
• Posted in Charismatic, Holy Spirit, Life in the Church, Service, Vision
In this post we want to look at two dimensions of our vision statement, being bible-saturated and spirit-empowered. The Bible gives us the plans (like The Dangerous Book for Boys) and the Holy Spirit gives us the power (like the trial-and-error of my building project). Without these our efforts at building God's church will be wayward, reckless, and probably just wrong.