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

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