TCA English Fellowship Vision, Mission, Values, and Goals (Ex. Paul helps Philippians see it) July 14, 2019 Sunday’s discussion time Our Vision Is to be Friends of God and the Family of God together as One. John 15:12-17 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 This I command you, that you love one another…” Our Mission Is to gather together, in Jesus’ Name, and grow in our relationship with God and one another, by learning and implementing His Word by the power of Holy Spirit. John 8:31-32 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” Our Values -We value relationship with God and one another as God’s Family. -We value obeying God by yielding to Holy Spirit, and relying on Him for everything. Phil. 2:12-13 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. -We value worshipping God in spirit and truth, therefore we value learning how to worship God correctly. John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” Acts 13:22 After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will.’ -We value the Kingdom of God and it’s main facets: Faith, Hope, and Love. -We value instruction in the Word of God, the blueprint for all of life, therefore, we will endeavor to daily read/study God’s Word. Phil. 1:9-11 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may [a]approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless [b]until the day of Christ; 11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Phil. 2:16 -We value caring for each other deeply, therefore we value building deep and open/vulnerable (confidentially) sharing with each other and praying for one another, so that we may grow in Christ. Phil. 2:2-4 make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. 3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. -We value building a culture of honoring one another, therefore we will learn how and practice it. -We value God’s heart desire for us to live in fellowship with God’s Family, therefore, we value our strong, consistent commitment to God’s Kingdom at TCA’s Family Fellowship. -We value Jesus modeling for us how to serve and love one another, therefore, we endeavor to learn how and practice this towards each other. -We value God’s authority system and His Fathering/Mothering- Son/Daughter ship of the generations, therefore we value honoring our leaders, parents, and mentors. -We value God’s desire that we grow in our Christ-like character in all areas of our life, therefore we will help each other “press on” to diligent, consistent growth as disciple’s of Christ. Phil. 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. -We value “servant leadership”, therefore we will obtain and practice leadership trainings and demonstrate Godly character before we ask to be in leadership (as per the TCA Levels of Leadership Character Guidelines). Phil. 2:5-8 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Phil. 3:12-14 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. -We value leading by being a living example of God’s truth. (Live it first then you can lead by example.) Phil. 3:17-20 Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. 18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; -We value God’s heart desire that the whole world come into His Kingdom, therefore, we will prayerfully seek God’s mission assignments for TCA, and walk them out in Oneness and unity with the Body of Christ. Our Goals 1. To build a God-honoring worship team that can lead TCA English into God’s Presence through worshipping in spirit and truth. (Hopefully by fall semester 2019 – with proper levels of Biblical character demonstrated) 2. To build a culture of a loving, caring English Fellowship that we can invite our friends to. (By beginning of fall 2019 Semester) 3. To seek God for His mission/cause assignment for TCA English Fellowship, and then build it into place (by first training and raising up Leaders to staff it). (By end of 2019.) (Example: adopt a current mission in Monterey Mexico. Help an existing partner in Nepal.) What would the world look like if everyone was looking out for the other person’s best interest? That is where the Kingdom of God is headed. Today’s discussion Question: Pick at least one VALUE you really want to see lived out here at TCA’s English Fellowship. And then share Why with your small group.