FROM BROCHURE TO BLUEPRINT
Revelation 7.9-17 & Matthew 28.19-20
What Is NEXT For First Baptist? – Part 1 of 4
Jude 1.3 “… contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” (esv)
2 Cor. 4.4 “… the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ …” (esv)
1 Timothy 6.12 “Fight the good fight of the faith.” (esv)
Luke 14.31 “… what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able … to oppose the one who comes against him …”
Our Mission: HFBC exists to glorify God by developing generations of disciples who make disciples from the community to the continents.
OUR MISSION CONTAINS:
A PICTURE OF Where God Is Taking US
Matthew 28.19 “Go … and make disciples of all nations …” (esv)
Romans 8.29 “For those whom [God] foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son …”(esv)
1 Cor. 14.24–25 “… an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.”
A PATTERN FOR How God Is Forming US
Matthew 28.19–20 “Go … baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” (esv)
GATHER
GROW – 2 Peter 3.18 “… grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” (esv)
GO – Romans 10.14 “… how can they believe without hearing about him? And how can they hear without a preacher?” (csb)
Dt 34.4 “This is the land I promised … ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.” (csb)
Matthew 28.20 “And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”