CAN YOU IMAGINE . . .

•A Believer…
Who’s commitment is…
OILD Culture: Nominal
NEW Culture: Authentic

Who’s church role is…
OLD Culture: Observer
NEW CUlutre: Participant

•A Church…
Who’s objective is…
OLD Culture: Attendance
NEW Culture: Deployment

Who’s message is by…
OLD Culutre: Proclamation
NEW Culture: Incarnation

•A Community…
Viewed by the church as…
OLD Culture: The enemy
NEW Culture: The mission field

Who views the church as …
OLD Culture: Irrelevant
NEW Culutre: Astonishing

Can you imagine a community of people…

* Having such a love for one another, and such a common identity and singleness of purpose, that “all will know…and the world may believe” that we are disciples of Christ, and messengers of His love to a troubled world?

* Who are all “ambassadors for Christ,” pursuing an authentic, biblical lifestyle; and whose testimony for Christ is therefore so distinctive that they “shine as lights in the world” with a gospel message that can clearly be “known and read of all men?”

* Who do not simply isolate themselves and rail against the culture, but rather have their hearts broken for it, and as a result find new ways every day to “love their neighbors as themselves?”

Can you imagine a community of churches…

* That serves together as one church—prayerfully united together in the power of the Holy Spirit, and reflecting together the glory of Christ as the “Light of the world?”

* There “the word of God is living and powerful;” and where Christ is so incarnated in the lives of its people that, like all living organisms, it grows and reproduces naturally?

* That is “not conformed to this world” but rather “transformed;” so that its people collectively serve as living proof of a loving God to a watching world?

Can You Imagine A City . . .

That sees in its Christian community a gospel message incarnated so completely that it is “astonished,” and feels literally compelled to give glory to the God they can see working through us?

Ø* Where every person is being prayed for by a friend, and that is literally saturated with the gospel message—presented not only in the sanctuaries, but also in the lives of believers who are loving their communities to Christ?

Ø* That can see in individual Christians such a practically attractive, spiritually compelling, proof-positive lifestyle, that their claims and pronouncements about a life-changing God finally ring true?