How to Share Your Faith – Jeff Vanderstelt
Jeff previously shared about living in community and on mission. Here Scott asks Jeff “how do you train your people to share the gospel?”
1. Confidence in the gospel is primary. If your people haven’t understood the gospel and its power personally, specifically and currently, they cannot have confidence to share it. Look for places where the gospel has not come to bear in your peoples’ lives.
a. Past Tense Gospel: Justification. Do your people struggle with guilt and shame? Do they truly understand their justification?
b. Present Tense Gospel: Sanctification. Do your people struggle with living victoriously on a daily basis? Do they understand the power of the gospel for today?
c. Future Tense ...
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Scott Thomas and Jeff Vanderstelt talk about living lives on mission together.
Jeff Vanderstelt is Vice President of the Acts 29 Network, and has been sharing with Scott Thomas on how his church engages their communities on mission. Here he tells the story of how his Missional Community recently walked with a man named Clay to faith in Jesus. This is a great story of what it looks like to have the whole church on ...
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Scott Thomas and Jeff Vanderstelt talk about living lives on mission.
Soma Communities in Tacoma, Washington, is a church that calls every person to embrace the command of Jesus to make disciples. Here Jeff Vanderstelt, church planter of Soma and Vice President of Acts 29, discusses how this is done in their church. In this video:
1. Every member a disciple-maker.
2. Missional Communities as missionary teams.
3. Missional Community covenants – shared distinctives, customized mission field.
4. When every member is a missionary, spiritual maturity progresses by necessity.
5. Advice for existing churches without missional DNA that want to change.
Scott Thomas: “As men plant churches, how important is this issue of calling their people to become ...
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By Pastor Scott Thomas, President Acts 29 Network
We are examining the characteristics of a missional church.
Part 1 is found here where characteristics one and two are discussed.
Part Two is found here and examines the third characteristic.
Part Three is here and examines the fourth and fifth characteristics.
Part Four is here and explores the sixth characteristic.
Part 5 is here where characteristics seven and eight are described.
Understands the centrality of the gospel expressed in all aspects of a person’s life (1 Cor. 15:1-4; 2:2; Gal. 6:14).
The missional church is committed to the authoritative, infallible, inerrant, inspired Scriptures (2 Tim. 3:14-17; Acts 2:42).
Gatherings are characterized by God-centered worship, preaching of the ...
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By Pastor Scott Thomas, President Acts 29 Network
We are examining the characteristics of a missional church.
Part 1 is found here where characteristics 1 and 2 are discussed.
Part Two is found here and examines the third characteristic.
Part Three is here and examines the fourth and fifth characteristics.
Part Four is here and explores the sixth characteristic.
Understands the centrality of the gospel expressed in all aspects of a person’s life (1 Cor. 15:1-4; 2:2; Gal. 6:14).
The missional church is committed to the authoritative, infallible, inerrant, inspired Scriptures (2 Tim. 3:14-17; Acts 2:42).
Gatherings are characterized by God-centered worship, preaching of the gospel, prayer, Lord’s Supper by penitent souls and baptism as a response to the ...
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