Release date: 12/06/2022
COMPELLING COMMUNITY
Chapter 11: Evangelize as a Community
- Pg 193 — “What is the main evangelistic value of your church service? Is it directly explaining the gospel to non-Christians? No. Church is for explaining the gospel to Christians, to fuel the supernatural witness of their community together.”
- This is an often debated idea. Are worship services primarily aimed at Christians or non-Christians. What do you think? And what Scripture supports your thoughts?
- What would be different about a worship service aimed at Christians vs non-Christians?
- What are ideas, traditions, added elements to a worship service that muddy the waters between aiming at Christians vs non-Christians?
- There’s quite a bit in this chapter (and book) about members owning the ministry. How does our own, catalyze, bless philosophy support or hinder ministry being owned by the members? Including the ministry of evangelism.
Chapter 12: Fracture Your Community
- Is our church ready to replicate? Before we start another campus or plant a church…
- Do our church members teach God’s Word to each other?
- Does our congregation take seriously our responsibility to guard each other from sin?
- Do we already see a depth and breadth of relationships that cannot be explained by natural bounds alone?
Conclusion:
- What’s our biggest opportunity? Of the main points of the book (below), what’s our greatest strength and what’s our great opportunity for growth?
- Are we a gospel plus community or a gospel revealing community?
- Do we focus enough on the supernatural aspects of our evangelism and discipleship?
- Are our members committed deeply?
- Do we have a diversity of community that is remarkable to behold?
- Does the preaching of God’s Word foster community within our church?
- Do we pray enough for community within the church?
- Do our members participate in spiritually intentional relationships?
- Do we design our staff, events, music and ministries to facilitate depth and breadth of community?
- Do we handle disunity and discontentment in our church well?
- Do we have a culture of honesty and grace when it comes to sin in the church?
- Do we expose the fruit of God’s Word so that non-Christians can witness the supernatural events in the Church?
- Do we replicate, plant and/or revitalize well?