1st Timothy 2:3 - 4, Phillipians 1:25

God has a plan for every believer and in this teaching, we were taught that God’s plan for the believer is that there is someone that continues with them for their furtherance in the faith. This shows us that the goal of God is for our betterment and our betterment is by men.

In Matthew 28:18-20, we find the mission of the church — to raise Solid believers and every local church that is doing the vision of the church is doing it in the context of Matthew 28.

The goal of the fivefold ministry is to raise people that can do the work of ministry and a pastor is a man sent by God to train believers. Therefore, the beauty of the church is in the number of men that can be sent out to do the work of ministry. The job of a believer is to do ministry but the job of a pastor is to train the believer to do it — to equip men for ministry (Ephesians 4:11 - 16).

The works of a ministry gift includes; to equip the believer for their work in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring believers into spiritual maturity, to bring believers into stability, to bring men into security, to make the believer more like Christ.

Why a new church?

God needs more men. There are still people that are not saved

God asked us to start to reach more men that will reach more men

We need more good churches cause there are a lot of bad ones

We have a world to reach

MARKS OF A GOOD CHURCH

The marks of a good church includes;

Their stance on the gospel

Their Stance on Money - Money is a tool for the work of ministry. Making merchandise out of our faith on the basis of money is wrong.

Their emphasis on Evangelism

Their belief about charismatic ministry

Evident love and cordiality amongst the members

Provision for the members growth.

As a church, God has called us to do all these and our goal is to raise believers that are mission minded, mission oriented as well as raise a church that God will come back for.