NOW WHAT?
September 7, 2007
Currently in our student group we are in a series called “Now What?” in it we are discussing now that we are followers of Jesus what can we do as a group to affect Coppell. I introduced a mission statement for the students, “A community seeking to bring glory to God through transformed lives in Jesus.” I broke this statement down first talking about being a community. We are all apart of many communities from Coppell to sports teams. Our group here at FBCC is a community, and we need to live and love each other as Jesus loved us. We talked about how we need to know one another in church and outside church encouraging one another in Jesus and being lights in our areas of influence.
With love must come authenticity, we need to be real about our faith in Jesus not being one person at church and a completely different person everywhere else. No one wants to be a part of a community that is not real. From there we talked about bringing glory to God and being transformed by Jesus. These go hand in hand. We bring glory to God by first trusting in Jesus finished work on the cross for salvation. (How awesome is the grace of God). After believing, we follow Jesus as Christ-Followers living our lives to him and for him. This can only come through the Spirit of God in us transforming our lives. Only through our relationship with Jesus as we read more of his word, pray to him, listen to him, encourage one another in what God is doing in our lives, and when we are spiritually dry we tell others so they can build us up.
In this process of working out our salvation, Jesus transforms us only as he can. We find our identity, love, worth, and value in him not in the things of this world. We want to then take this message of Jesus to those who we run with living a life transformed in front of them with authenticity, allowing them to ask questions, helping them find answers, praying for them, and eventually hoping for their salvation. Through being a community seeking to bring glory to God through transformed lives in Jesus, we feel God will bless it over time growing us spiritually deep, and adding to our numbers.
