Title: Beyond Our Rights
Author: Craig Smith
Text: Genesis 13
Amen. If you're wondering why they kept using the number 17 there, some of you already kinda how many of you already know why they're using 17? How many of you're like, what's the deal with 17? Yeah, we're 17 years out from our 100th anniversary as a church. Woo. Yeah. Yeah. God's done incredible things in the past 83 years, but we know he is, he's just getting started and we're looking at that, that really important milestone in 17 years and we're asking God, who do you want us to be as a church when we get there?
By the way I know 17 years seems like a long way off. But we got a long way to go. We got a long way to go to become the church God's actually calling us to be. And so God's given us a big vision. And the big vision is that when we hit that 100th milestone, mission Hills will be a catalytic influence for reaching everyone in the front range.
That's what God's calling us to as a church. So not, obviously we're not gonna do it ourselves, but we'd be a catalyzing influence that would spark something together with other churches. That's gonna change everything on the front range in ways that we've never seen. And the strategy for that is by making sure that no one on the front range lives more than 10 minutes from multiple healthy churches.
Because we know that when you have to drive a long way to church, there's all kinds of things that go down. And especially as you've heard today, we have this passion for the next generation. And when is when when people are, when families are moving, having to drive more than 10 minutes to get to church, next gen involvement tanks, and the chances of somebody actually being involved in kids' ministry and sports camps and Awana and middle school and high school and all those kinds of things actually just goes.
Really far down and the chances of them sticking with the faith that they were taught growing up also declines as their participation de ...
Author: Craig Smith
Text: Genesis 13
Amen. If you're wondering why they kept using the number 17 there, some of you already kinda how many of you already know why they're using 17? How many of you're like, what's the deal with 17? Yeah, we're 17 years out from our 100th anniversary as a church. Woo. Yeah. Yeah. God's done incredible things in the past 83 years, but we know he is, he's just getting started and we're looking at that, that really important milestone in 17 years and we're asking God, who do you want us to be as a church when we get there?
By the way I know 17 years seems like a long way off. But we got a long way to go. We got a long way to go to become the church God's actually calling us to be. And so God's given us a big vision. And the big vision is that when we hit that 100th milestone, mission Hills will be a catalytic influence for reaching everyone in the front range.
That's what God's calling us to as a church. So not, obviously we're not gonna do it ourselves, but we'd be a catalyzing influence that would spark something together with other churches. That's gonna change everything on the front range in ways that we've never seen. And the strategy for that is by making sure that no one on the front range lives more than 10 minutes from multiple healthy churches.
Because we know that when you have to drive a long way to church, there's all kinds of things that go down. And especially as you've heard today, we have this passion for the next generation. And when is when when people are, when families are moving, having to drive more than 10 minutes to get to church, next gen involvement tanks, and the chances of somebody actually being involved in kids' ministry and sports camps and Awana and middle school and high school and all those kinds of things actually just goes.
Really far down and the chances of them sticking with the faith that they were taught growing up also declines as their participation de ...
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