Creating Your Own Gospel Story-Part Uno

As a community, we have been redefining what will be considered success in our ministry.  Realizing we can not meet everyone’s wish list for a church, we need to set clear measurement standards that will allow us to feel we have accomplished the call that the Lord has given us.  We seek to do a few things and to do them well.

Our first point of measurement has to do with how well we are developing Disciples of Jesus Christ.  We define a Disciple as a person who is “following Jesus, being transformed by Jesus and on mission with Jesus”.

Our second measurement standard is that the people in our LFC family will understand the meaning of the Gospel, that being “that we are an imperfect people, clinging to the perfect Christ, being transformed by the Holy Spirit and helping other imperfect people.”

The third measurement standard has to do with the ability of those in our community to be Gospel Storytellers.  A Gospel Storyteller is a person who can give witness to the transforming power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their lives and to help point out that transforming power in the lives of others.  We wish to help everyone learn to share the impact of the Gospel of Christ on their life naturally and in the
everyday path of life.

In an article entitled “What are the New Measurements of a Successful Church” author Caesar Kalinowski gives ten new benchmarks of a successful church.  One of those ten benchmarks is:

Gospel conversations taking place naturally. Is our verbal proclamation of Good News increasing? Are folks growing in their gospel fluency? Does the gospel come up naturally and often?

We will be using a series of articles in this email newsletter to help us develop our own Gospel Stories.

To be able to tell your Gospel Story, you must first understand your Gospel Story.

Homework:  Take some time this week to think about your life and take note of where God through the Gospel has broken into your life, where He has broken through the mess and problems, and how the Gospel is breaking out of your life in ministry to others.

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