All volunteers at Grace Life Church are expected:
- To exemplify Jesus in every deed, thought, and word; saturating your life with the Gospel of Jesus. (Colossians 3:17)
The temptation to live a "churchy" life on Sundays when the rest of your week is empty is common. We will never be able to live perfect lives as we struggle with our sin nature, but we can combat our sin nature by replacing those things that distract us with the truth of the gospel. What we watch, where we go, how we speak. . . people are always paying attention. We desire to come alongside our volunteers to help them exemplify Jesus in their daily life, not just on Sunday mornings.
- To help people live a Jesus-centered life by pointing them to Jesus. (Titus 2:11-12)
As we learn more about Christ, we will find that we want to help others also discover the realness of Jesus. We do this explicitly as the goal of our Serve Teams, but we also implicitly are doing this as we encourage one another while rubbing shoulders as we work together. The good works that God has prepared for us is designed to take the place of those worldly pursuits and bring us closer to God, but the ultimate goal of that service is to show God's love to the world.
- To engage fully in the Discipleship Pathway (2 Timothy 2:2)
Whether we recognize it or not, we are a disciple of something. As a disciple of Jesus, we identify three pieces- connecting because of the gospel, growing in the gospel, and influencing because of the gospel- as a collective balance through which we mature in Christ. Serve Teams may have a bent toward one area or the other, but they are also only a part of what Grace Life is about. Lifegroups, D-groups, Bible studies, family dinners. . . all of these are just as important as serving.
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