Empower the Local Church: Galatians 5:13

What does it mean to “empower the local body”. I believe its time to start seeing the church for what it is. It is the body of Christ. That body is not limited to the 4 walls of our home church, not limited to our neighborhood, our county, our city, our state or even our country! No the body of Christ is the global community of believers in Jesus Christ. So for us to say we want to empower the local body means we want to revitalize churches/ministries within a close proximity to our targeted community. Wherever the Lord leads us to go that is where we will seek to empower the churches within a proximity of our event by providing them an opportunity to be introduced to their community in a new way. But it will not just be that one church it will be multiple churches and organizations who are planted in that community to serve the people and to be there to usher them into that relationship with Christ. How we will accomplish this is by spending the time and resources to draw the people out and allowing all these ministries to set up booths at the event to create a kind of ministry expo. We will throughout the event be directing people to meet their local ministry leaders and encourage them to visit. We will print off flyers with all the local churches and organizations and give them to all the people in attendance to make sure they are aware of the people near that desire to help them get back on track and LOVE THEM! We will use the raffles and giveaways as an opportunity to collect information for churches to be able to reach out to their neighbors and check in.

Unite the Body of Christ: John 17:21

How are we uniting the body of Christ? Much in every way! First we are working with local churches and asking them to work together with other local churches and share this event to be promoted to their local community. Second, our evangelical team which is made up of multiple churches is working to sow the seed in their community but trusting the local churches to do the watering on the seed that is sown. Thirdly, we are bridging the gap between communities by allowing churches outside these communities to help to raise the resources to put on the event. Lastly, every denomination, culture, ethnicity, is working together to make this happen! We are keeping it simple by coming together with the common purpose of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. We all agree that Jesus is the only Begotten Son of God, He was born of a virgin, lived without sin, crucified, buried for 3 days and resurrected on the 3rd day! We all believe that Jesus is our only hope and the world needs to know that He is their only hope as well! So we are working together to preach this good news!!!

Evangelize the Lost: Matthew 28:19

Jesus told the Disciples to go into the world, because He had made them fishers of men! We believe its hard to fish without any bait. The large budget for this event is based on our evangelism technique which follows. We are reaching out to unbelievers, atheist, criminals, murderers, drug dealers, in short people who are carnally minded! We must remember what would have gotten our attention before Christ renewed our minds! We also believe that our God is infinite in resources and in graciousness! So as we have freely received Christ we are freely giving physical things to draw out the lost. We also believe that many unbelievers have the misconception that churches are all about what the people can give them, we hope to break the power of this lie by showing the people what God is willing to give to them! We will introduce them to an all powerful, merciful and giving God in hopes that they will see beyond their physical needs to their true spiritual needs. The raffle prize winning numbers will be read throughout the event to keep the people locked in on the message through the music and speakers. After each music and speaker set prizes will be given away! This will keep the carnal mind engaged to hear spiritual truth and all we can do is hope that FAITH comes by hearing!!!!

Magnify the Name of Jesus:

We hope to start a trend and movement within the Body of Christ. That trend is to shift the attention away from ourselves, away from our ministries and our churches. We want the Lord Jesus alone to be magnified! We want to work together without needing credit, without drawing people to our church or growing our own body, we want the One Church to grow whether those people end up under our leadership or not! We want people to be given the opportunity to bow the knee to Jesus now on earth so that they will not be shamefully forced to bow later! We are warning men that Jesus is their only hope, He is who He said He was, He is the only way to salvation, He is the only way for them to have relationship with the Father, HE IS COMING BACK!