1. Your Kingdom Come Your Will Be Done…. Your Kingdom Come Your Will Be Done…. A Great Church is on a Mission from God

2. Missions Maturity Ministr y Magnify Member

3. Missions Maturity Ministr y Magnify Member Knowing Christ Partnering

4. Our next Welcome Class will be held: Sunday, February 10 th (6:00 – 8:00 p.m.)

5. Missions Maturity Ministr y Magnify Member Knowing Christ Growing in Christ Partnering

6. Missions Maturity Ministr y Magnify Member Knowing Christ Growing in Christ Serving Christ Partnering

7. Believers are created for Kingdom Work Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

8. Every piece is needed...

9. S piritual gifts H eart A bilities P ersonality E xperience

10. Networking Four Consecutive Wednesdays Beginning February 6 th 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Four Consecutive Wednesdays Beginning February 6 th 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

12. Missions Maturity Ministr y Magnify Member Knowing Christ Growing in Christ Serving Christ Sharing Christ Partnering

13. “Mission” comes from the Latin word for "sending."

14. “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." John 20:21-22

15. Missions A Great Church is on a Mission from God!

16. What is our Mission? To introduce lost people to God Lost people matter to God!

17. 2 Corinthians 5:18 "Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also." Today’s English Version

18. The Great Commission Matthew 28:19-20 - Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

19. 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

20. Acts 1:8 - You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

21. Missions Local Missions Regional Missions Continental Missions Inter- continental Missions

22. Ebenezer Bible Fellowship Church God is Love Our message must be incarnational

23. Our message must be transformational The goal is to make disciples of Jesus

24. Our message must be relational

25. 90,000 people a day

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28. The percentage of adults in the United States disconnected from church is increasing.

29. The negative perception of the church by unbelievers is increasing.

30. “If our church would cease to exist, how many people from our community would weep?”

31. Missional Church A "missional church" is a church that acts like a missionary in its community.

32. 1. The “Come and See” Approach Two Approaches to Evangelism 2. The “Go and Be” Approach

33. Jesus calls us not only to come to Him, but to go for Him

34. The call of God to be engaged with the culture without being absorbed by the culture A Missional Church Embraces:

35. Sacrificial service as a means of engaging our culture A Missional Church Embraces:

36. Prayer for God to move in hearts A Missional Church Embraces:

37. A sense of urgency about its mission A Missional Church Embraces:

38. John 20:21 As the Father has sent me, I am sending you. John 20:21 As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.

39. Church led Custom fit Church led Custom fit Our mission can either be:

40. “Our mission has eternal signifi- cance. It will impact the eternal destiny of other people. The consequences of your mission will last forever. Nothing else we do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.” Rick Warren

41. Magnify our Lord

42. John 15:8 - This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

43. 2 Corinthians 3:18 – We who…all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever- increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

44. We’re not done yet!