Calling God

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Calling Gods People TogetherTo Love Our
Communities to Christ.

• The Mission America Coalition
• Contending together for the heart and soul of
  America

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Loving our Communities to Christ The Genesis

• Perspective Lift up your eyes and see God
  is at work.
• In most of the world amazing church growth.
• In the western world decline, both church and
  culture.
• Somethings wrong. What is God saying?
• A Simple strategy Listen for Gods voice, and
  follow Him.
• God has been at work in America.
• M.A. Coalitionmany listening posts, one message
  cities.
• Varied approaches, a few common themes, one
  framework.

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Loving our Communities to Christ The Principles

• Common themes - Bedrock transformational
  principles
• Cities are transformed when people are
  transformed.
• There is no shortcut.
• People are transformed when God transforms them.
• It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh
  profits nothing.
• God transforms people when His Church prays,
  cares, and shares.
• Simple, transferable, biblical principles.

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Loving our Communities to Christ The framework

• The Premise Jesus is the hope for the
  worldAnd the Church is Gods chosen vehicle for
  evangelism
• The Church is commanded (Matthew 2819-20) to
  show and tell the good news of Jesus
• When church is being church, there is no more
  powerful force on the planet.
• Not a new thing an old thing.
• The Prescription For Church to be Churchits
  culture must change.
• Repentance, revival, renewal
• Not a program or campaign authentic change that
  is transformational, permanent, and
  self-replicating The DNA
• one thing is needed

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Loving our Communities to Christ The framework

• It takes the The Whole Church Gods power is
  released in unity, and diluted by division.
• Clergy and laity, inter-denominational, church
  and ministries.
• It takes a city-wide church to win a city-wide
  war.
• Church unity can happen in a city Church unity
  can happen around evangelism.
• It takes the The Whole Gospel Gods love
  expressed in word and deed.
• Prayer, Care, and Sharesequential, layered,
  integratedincarnated
• Irreducible minimum simple, focused,
  foundational biblical principles.
• Pastors, Individuals, Churches,
  Communitysaturation.

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Loving Our Communities to Christ
Begins with A broken and contrite heart Psalm
5110-17

• Broken A Christ-like brokenness for the lost
• When He saw the multitudes, He was moved with
  compassion.
• Jesus looked at the city and wept over it.

• Contrite Repentant for the state of church
  evangelism in America
• The harvest is truly plentiful
• But the laborers are few.

A Call to Action
A Call to Unity
Calling Gods People Together...to Love Our
Communities to Christ
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Three essential Building Blocks of evangelism
and cultural change.
What drives us to our knees?
How does Gods light shine through us?
How shall they hear? (Romans 1014)
You are the light of the world (Matthew 514)
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Prayer, Care, and Share Together Multiplies
Kingdom Impact Exponentially
Doing two or more together
Share
1
113
113
3
3
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Doing each separately
1
1
3
Care
Prayer
Care
Prayer
113
1113
1119 Exponential Increase
Share
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Loving Our Communities Framework
Building a foundation of Prayer, a lifestyle of
Care, and a willingness to Share.
Share
Begin Share Phase
Care
Begin Care Phase
Prayer
Begin Prayer Phase
Individual Church Teaching about prayer
Individual Church teaching about Care
Individual Church teaching about Share
Community Prayer Event
Community Care Event
Community Share Event
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Loving Our Communities Framework
Communities Transformed
A three year commitment to people, church, and
city transformation
Churches Transformed
Year 3
People Transformed

• Three Year Cultural Change
• Transformational
• Permanent
• Self-replicating

Year 2
Share
Care
Prayer
Year 1
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Can You Imagine
Old Culture New Culture
A Believer Whos commitment is Whos church role is Nominal Observer Authentic Participant
A Church Whos objective is Whos message is by Attendance Proclamation Deployment Incarnation
A Community Viewed by the church as Who views the church as The enemy Irrelevant The mission field Astonishing
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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 knowand 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?

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Can you imagine a community of churches

• That serves together as one churchprayerfully
  united together in the power of the Holy Spirit,
  and reflecting together the glory of Christ as
  the Light of the world?
• Where 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?

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

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Can you imagine the whole Church loving their
communities to Christ?

• Loving Our Communities is...
• A Catalytic Framework
• For Culture Change
• In Churches and Across Cities
• Through A Prayer-Care-Share Lifestyle
• "LC2C"  - - Think ...
• Process, not program
• The Gospel, proclamation demonstration
  saturation
• Coaches, not consultants
• Collaborative ... Transformation
• "LC2C"  - - Let's talk ...
• Check out www.LC2C.blogspot.com
• Email LC2C_at_missionamerica.org
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