LSF Vision 2011

Vision 2011

LSF exists to equip people to

What is missing?

Is this just

something WE do?

Drawn by God's grace

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith. And this is not your own doing, it is a gift of God. Ephesians 2:8

This is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and gave his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, let us also love one another.

1 John 4:10-11

I have come to give life, and give it to the full.

John 10:10

If anyone wants to come after me, they must deny themselves, take up their cross and follow me.

Matthew 16

"Let no DEBT remain outstanding except the continuing debt to

LOVE ONE ANOTHER"

"This is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and gave his son as an atoning sacrifice for all our sins.

Dear friends, since God has so loved us, let us also love one another."

1 John 4:10-11

God wants us to 'Pay it forward'

God doesn't need our acts of love -

but our neighbour does!

AGAPE

'the DECISION and ACTION to ensure that the best happens for the other, no matter what the cost.'

NOT AN EMOTION!

Follow Jesus

(DISCIPLESHIP:

grow in faith)

""Love one another" is directly related to DISCIPLESHIP

"A new command I give you, that you must love one another.

By this all people will know you are my disciples, if you love one another."

John 13:34-35

"Love one another" - a call to joyful freedom

'The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic "you ought," but in the magnetic field of Christian freedom, under the empowering of the "you may."

Helmut Thielicke

Love one another

(COMMUNITY:

build caring communities)

Matthew 16:

If any one of you wants to come after me,

you must deny yourself

and take up your cross

and follow me

from that time on he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer and die

and on the third day be raised to life

in, around and beyond the tertiary context in Victoria

Serve the world

(MISSION: connect God's heart with the world)

"In our heads we think mission is evangelism

but in our hearts we know it is service." Graham Harms,

Qld Director of Ministry and Mission

"Preach the Gospel always. If necessary, use words."

St Francis of Assisi

(Romans 12)

In view of God's mercy

offer your bodies as living sacrifices

We have different gifts,

according to the grace given to us.

prophesying (declaring God's Word)

• serving
• teaching
• encouraging
• sharing generously
• leadership
• mercy

sincere love

do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good

(Matthew 16)

"You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God"

On this rock I will build my church

The gates of Hades will not withstand it

I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven!

Blessed are you!

around,

in,

Serve

the world

Love one another

The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve,

and to give his life as a ransom for many.

All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age.

Matthew 28:18-20

Follow

Jesus

and beyond

the tertiary context in Victoria.

To 'love one another' is to 'put on Christ'

and 'live in the light'

(The way of coercive power and violence)

to live by the sword?

(the way of radical nonviolence and redemptive suffering for the sake of the world)

or to take up the cross?

AGAPE

Mission: The heartbeat of God for the world

On the one hand:

service

On the other hand:

proclamation

Proclamation

Service