The Missional Church is an authentic worshiping community that seeks to live out God's call to share the good news to the ends of the earth beginning with the community in which it lives. Since April a few of us have been working together to discern what this means for us here at First Baptist Church.
As part of the Missional Church project of the ABCUSA, we have made a commitment to live out this calling and to help everyone in our church family begin to understand the calling not only to "go" to church but to "be" the church.
You have already heard me speak about this in recent sermons. This Missional Church committee is now looking for a project that we can all get behind that will meet a real need in our community and allow us to share the love of Christ in a concrete way.
Over the last few months we have floated a number of ideas and thought about ways we can partner with various groups, business and agencies. Tonight everything came together as we chose our first project, the one we will present to the group from ABCUSA.
You will be hearing more about this in the coming weeks. Right now we are working out the details. So stay tuned. We a had a great meeting tonight that included prayer, exploration of the text from Matthew 25:31-40 and a brainstorming session led by Curt Brockway.
If you would like to get more involved with this group, speak to one of the members. The committee includes Curt Brockway, Amanda Duntz, Judy Dupont, Sue Ferguson, Phil Postler, Cynthia Strouse and me.
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