1. Our Mission Measures: Reaching and coaching
Week 5
God-sized dreams
Our Mission Measures: Reaching and coaching
Chris Besser

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

3. How are evangelism and discipleship related?

4. Reaching

5. Matthew 5:16
Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Light symbolizes:
purity over filth
Truth/knowledge over error/ignorance
Divine revelation/presence over reprobation/abandonment

6. What is the result of our Good Works?
What is our light?
Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven
How do we let it shine?
What is the result of our Good Works?

7. Matthew 22:37-39
37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Deut. 6:4-5 Mind in place of might
Lev. 19:18

8. How does loving God related to loving our neighbor?

9. Acts 1:8
but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.

10. Our Reach Circle (Matt 5:16) Neighborhood (Matt 22:37-39)
World (Acts 1:8)

11. Coaching

12. Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit

13. How do we “make disciples”?
Growth through equipping.

14. Ephesians 5:1-2
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
Rom. 8:15 but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

15. Galatians 5:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

16. Coaching
Equip (Matt 28:19)
Example(Eph 5:1-2)
Authentic
(Gal 5:22-23)

17. Who are you reaching? Who are you coaching?