Our Mission Measures: Connecting and Serving Week 4 God-sized dreams Our Mission Measures: Connecting and Serving Chris Besser me@cjbess.com

Mission statement Building relationships that connect all people to God-sized life and love.

What are some of the most meaningful relationships that you have developed with others in the church?

Where is one area you feel called to serve ?

Connecting Relationships, care & inclusion

Hebrews 10:24-25 24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

How to spur each other… We must not neglect to meet together We must actively encourage one another

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 9 Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. 10 For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. 11 Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.

Galatians 5:14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

1 Peter 5:5 …and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

John 15:7-8 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

Serving Church, Community & World

Acts 20:28 Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Who is one person in the church you can serve?