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The Next 50 Years
St. J & B:
We must
Engage our Children and Youth
“Close to 60 percent of young people who went to church as teens drop out after high school.”
“You Lost Me” David Kinnaman
We must
Engage our Children and Youth
“Because we so often segregate our children from the adults, sixteen years later we discover our children do not believe the same things that we do.”
David Fitch
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We must
Give Faithfully & Generously“Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
2 Corinthians 9:6
We must
Allow Our Worship to Evolve“She said the worship service was like watching a rerun of a 1980’s TV show over and over again.”
Emergent Worship, Dan Kimball
We Gather to Worship
God
We Listen to the Word
of God
We Respond
to the Call of God
We Celebrate at the Table
of God
We Depart to Serve God
Our Pattern of Worship
We must
Allow Our Worship to Evolve“Often called “Blended Worship”, ancient-future worship incorporates historical, traditional, and contemporary worship styles.” “Ancient-Future Worship”, Robert Webber
FollowMe
We must
Remember How toMake Disciples
“For the last several decades the churches of the western world have not made discipleship a condition of being a Christian.”
Dallas Willard
FollowMe
We must
Remember How toMake Disciples
“People born after 1982 - known as "Generation Y" - have only a “faded cultural memory” of Christianity.”
The Faith of Generation Y
We must
Preserve the Unity of the Church
“I ask that they may be completely ONE, so that the world may know that you have sent me.” John 17
The Next 50 Years
St. J & B: