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It's good to take a RE-FRESHING LOOK at the DIRECTION we believe that God is leading us as His Body.

Without time spent refocusing on our Vision we can drift.  We can become cold.  We can realize that we need to be RE-IGNITED in our relationship WITH JESUS.

But how is God leading us to RE-IGNITE?  Through PRAYER.  Through Preaching (actively engaging in God's Word.  And through MAKING TIME to engage with PEOPLE who also want to RE-IGNITE their passion for Jesus, too!

Joel and Ryan take a look at why engaging in a focused and intentional way in prayer, God's Word, and relationships with people can really help us make progress in God's MISSION to make disciples of ALL NATIONS.  

The Great Commission starts in our neighborhoods and reaches to the nations.  Listen in and ask for God to RE-IGNITE YOU as you follow Jesus with His Church!

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How often are you connecting with the Church?
You know: Engaging in Worship Together?  Actively participating in a Life Group with a few other people?  And finding a place to SERVE together with others using your spiritual gift(s) to build up the body?

During this season of life, we may have slipped away from CONSISTENTLY CONNECTING with Christ's Church...with our BROTHERS AND SISTERS....with God's Family.

This is a dangerous development, which should bring us to perform PRIORITY CHECK to see how we're investing our time, talents, and treasures.

If the ETERNAL IMPORTANCE of MAKING DISCIPLES by living on mission for Jesus isn't the main part of our weekly life...what is?  And should we trim our schedules to make sure that what God reveals as important in Scripture is also important in our lives as well?

Jason, Joel, and Ryan talk through these points and several more on today's podcast.  Praying for God to use this podcast to help us all reevaluate our schedules so that Jesus and His church get a priority place...not the left in the dust.

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Do you want your church to multiply disciples greatly?  If we say, "YES," we need to use God's plan to multiply disciples.  And what is God's plan to lead us to multiply?

A UNIFIED TEAM of SHEPHERDS (Elders) and SERVANTS (Deacons and Deaconesses) is what we need.  Joel and Ryan talk today about how God's called church leadership team is the tool God uses to teach, train, equip, and unify the church so that we can achieve His mission.

An Elder is also a Shepherd and and Overseer and is called to serve the church.  Deacons and Deaconesses are called alongside to help maintain the unity of the body by serving people's needs and assisting the Elders in executing God's mission for the church.

Trust between the Elders and congregation is so important and acts like the oil to keep an engine running smoothly.  Listen in today to learn how to build trust or repair fractured trust in leaders and to overcome the enemy's strategy to divide the church.

When the church is UNIFIED, God is GLORIFIED and great things can happen to bring people to faith in Jesus and grow to maturity in Christ.  

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Satan, our enemy, wants to shut us up all the time.  But, God has called us to be HIS WITNESSES and to ALWAYS BE READY to share the reason for the HOPE we have in Jesus Christ with anyone we meet.

Jerry, Carol, and Ryan, talk through the process that has called ALL as believers in Jesus Christ, to pursue and obey: to SHARE JESUS with people so that OUTSIDERS will become INSIDERS and continue the CYCLE by sharing Jesus with OUTSIDERS.

Sharing Jesus isn't a FORMULA or a SALES PITCH.  Sharing Jesus is sharing God's truth in Scripture and our story with Jesus of repenting of our sins and believing in Jesus ALONE to save us through FAITH in CHRIST'S FINISHED WORK!

As you listen, we are praying that you will amazed at the power that taking the STEP OF BAPTISM can have in our lives and then to continue growing to follow Jesus and teach all followers EVERYTHING that Jesus has commanded us to do.

We come to believe and be saved through the GOSPEL, then we come to know how to LIVE for Jesus through the GOSPELS (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).

Share this podcast today with someone you know!  Let's PRAY for opportunities to share Jesus!

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We are not all the same.  We are all quite different.  
Yet in Christ's Church we are to be unified and not remain divided into our own little sub-groups.

The World System forces UNIFORMITY, requiring everyone to think the same and be the same.  You can't have a view that's different from THE NARRATIVE.  
The World System also focuses too much on all our differences and desires to put us into its own groups that remain divided.

In today's podcast, Rachel, Jason, and Ryan talk about how JESUS' CHURCH is totally different than the World by being UNIFIED through faith in Jesus Christ and allowing every person to STILL MAINTAIN their GOD-GIVEN uniqueness.

How can we work to build this UNITY that Jesus died and rose again to secure for us?  How about through NATURAL RELATIONSHIPS with one another in HIS CHURCH so that we can be the FELLOWSHIP of DIFFERENTS that God created us to be?

ONE BODY.  MANY MEMBERS.  UNITED in CHRIST.  NOT DIVIDED.  His Beautiful Church! 

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Church discipline is not meant to be scary, negative, or go nuclear.  

Biblical discipline is directed by the Scriptures and is meant to restore relationships with God and with our brothers and sisters in Christ.  It's really incredible when God gives us His grace to restore relationships.  This is what Joel and Ryan are talking about on today's podcast.

Discipline is not always easy to go through, but it's for our good, the church's good, and the good of the community in which we live.  Discipline and restoration really can't happen well unless we're WITH ONE ANOTHER in the body.  We do need to be physically present with one another regularly and consistently to do restoration well.

Let this podcast help you take steps toward spiritual health as you work to live in harmony with your brothers and sisters.

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You don't have to live the life of faith on your own.  You don't need to fight the good fight of the faith on a solo mission.  That isn't God's best for us.  Actively Pursuing Jesus with God's Family in the Church is!

Everything changes when love enters the equation and that is exactly what Jonathan and Ryan will be talking about in today's podcast.  Share this episode with a friend!

It's easy to get in a cycle of not glorifying God in our lives, drifting away, and living life on our own. But what we're missing when we allow drifting to happen is having the RESOURCES through our RELATIONSHIPS WITH EACH OTHER to keep passionately pursuing a relationship with Jesus together! 

We're praying that this podcast will help BRING YOU BACK TO CHRIST'S BODY, the Church!

Ask God for His strength to do what He wants you to do to begin reconnecting and actively participating with His Body!  There's a lot of Jesus and growth with your BROTHERS and SISTERS in God's Family waiting just on the other side of your decision.

What's holding you back?

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How consistently and actively would you say you are in responding to God's Word preached and taught?  God's Word is meant to be so much more than just HEAD KNOWLEDGE.

We desperately need God's Word to live a life that reflects Jesus and impacts the relationships we have in our lives.

God's Word is meant to transform our lives.  When we share God's Word with people we know, we can never know the full impact or the lives that will be transformed.  

Sharing God's Word is an adventure we're all invited to join, both as a student and as a teacher.  In today's podcast, Gary, Roy, and Ryan practically share how teaching and preaching can be a regular practice in all of our lives.

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What we do together SHAPES US!  When we're an active part of a group gathering we can become better than we were before, or worse, depending on the type of people we are allowing to influence us.

In today's podcast, Mark and Ryan talk about what can happen when we invest in time worshipping together as a church and how God can shape us to be more like Christ as we regularly GATHER TOGETHER.

It's too easy to miss out on the many short little conversations that lead to longer conversations or opportunities to do things together.  It's too easy to be TOO INDIVIDUALISTIC.  WE NEED EACH OTHER!

Gathering together is much more than a cure our loneliness.  We can be help one another grow to be more like Christ!

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What is conversion?  From WHAT to WHAT?  And is CONVERSION really needed?  YES!

What we really need most in our lives is CONVERSION through faith from deep in our heart.  This is what we need and what Joel and Ryan discuss today on On Our Way Home.

If the Holy Spirit doesn't give you NEW LIFE through CONVERSION, though REPENTANCE from our sins and FAITH in JESUS CHRIST, there would be NO SALVATION and no CHURCH.

We just can't clean ourselves up on the outside to try to make ourselves acceptable to God.
What conversion does is replaces our black heart of sin and gives us a NEW HEART that is written with God's Law by God Himself.  

Have you been converted by FAITH?  Are you trying to clean yourself up on your own?  Check out God's alternative and then let that change lead you to WORSHIP!

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