Update Tuesday

For the last few weeks I have been sharing some of the thoughts and reflections that God has laid on our heart about how our new work in Hamilton will begin and what it might look like as we start. I took those basic ideas and came up with the following summary and vision. Being a musician, I took the idea of a lead sheet and played with it. A lead sheet is a piece of music which has the basic information to communicate the foundation of a song: the melody, the harmony, the rhythm and the lyrics. Fuller arrangements, instrumentation, interpretation etc. may be left up to those who will play the music, but the basic building blocks of the song are well established and laid out. So with that in mind, here is a summary of what we plan to be doing:





What We Envision...
A network of interdependent home churches playing from the same lead sheet...








The Lyrics:
John 13:35 - ... “As I have love you so you should love one another. By this all men will know you are my disciples...”

The Melody:
Discipleship
a) Who Is Jesus, What Has He done for us - Study a Gospel using COIN.
c) What does He want to do through us - Five Marks of a Disciple

The Harmony:
Community
A home church setting in which families share meals, their lives, study, prayer etc in a highly relational way.

The Rhythm:
Mission
We will be a missional community that seeks to be a foretaste of the Kingdom living and proclaiming the kingdom.




The logo and name are just temporary working titles that we will put more thought into as things progress, but we would love to hear thoughts and comments about the things that we have been sharing as we continue to think through and refine our ideas about our new work in Hamilton.