Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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~ through cultivating personal and corporate growth in Christ through teaching, prayer, and mutual support (Eph. 4.11-13; Matt. 28.20; 2 Tim. 2.2)

~ through group and personal study of Bible doctrine and applying Biblical principles to life; (Acts 4.13; Rom. 12.2)

~ through equipping Christians to be like Christ (Eph. 4.12-15)

• To Communicate Christ and His Kingdom to the lost, laboring together as his ambassadors (Matt. 28.18-19; Acts 1.7, 8)

~ through our study of, faith in, and defense of the Word of God regarding His salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ, as spoken to the prophets and the apostles (1 Cor. 15.1-4; Gal. 1.8-9; John 1.12-14; Heb. 1.1-3) ~ through penetrating our personal worlds, neighborhoods, and society as His representatives, entrusted with the new covenant as ministers of reconciliation (Acts 2.47; 8.1-4, 1 Pet. 3.15-17; 2 Cor. 3.3-5; 5.18-21)

~ through proclaiming Christ as Lord through our obedience and by our evangelism (Mark 16.15-16; Acts 1.7-8)

~ through the living out of our faith in holiness and godliness by our celebration of God, our love for each other, and our service to our neighbors (Titus 2.11-15; Mark 16.13)

~ through evangelism, discipleship, and the planting of new churches among the unreached around us (Matt. 28.18-20)

~ through recognition, development and use of gifts of the Spirit by every believer; (Rom. 12.5-8; 1 Cor. 12.7-11)

• To Care for Our Members and Others with Christ’s Compassion , loving others as God’s own servants (Rom.12.4-6; 15.5-7; 1 John 1.3, 7)

~ through sharing one another’s burdens, fulfilling the law of Jesus Christ; (Acts 2.42, 46-47; Gal. 6.2)