LifeChurch Makati’s Bold Vision!

Last Sunday Experience we started a new message series entitled BOLD with the message BOLD VISION and if I can remember it right this was the first time that Arnold and I had a tandem message delivery.

Let me share the recap of the message specially for those of you who were not able to come last Sunday.

Arnold began the message by presenting the vision of LifeChurch Makati which is: TO BUILT A CHURCH WHERE PEOPLE FAR FROM GOD LOVE TO ATTEND!

He mentioned the following situations why do we embraced this vision:

1. Even if we claim to be a Christian country, according to statistics, only 20% have a personal relationship with God and have the personal understanding of what Christ has done to them by dying on the cross. Then the rest of the 80% do not know God in a personal level and do not fully understand Jesus’ act of Sacrifice for men’s Forgiveness and Salvation – literally they are “far from God!”
2. Sadly, most churches create their own Christian subculture, own wardrobe, own lingo, their own hang out places, own books to read, songs to sing and to listen to and feeling like superior than the non-Christians. And whether we like it or not most of us become exclusive in our own Christian-rights so the called “Non-Christians” who are far away from God are considered to be the OUTSIDERS!
3. Bad of all badness most Christian churches are acting like as if the rest of the 80% are like the 20%, forgetting how it feel to be in their shoes when they were invited to a church. That make them feel unwelcome unless they embrace the Christian subculture first.

A picture of a church people would love to attend!

LifeChurch Makati is sure of God’s call to be different by setting this Bold Vision of building a church where these people who don’t even realize that they are far from God would love to attend!

This will not be an easy thing to do because to make these people love to attend our church, whom other churches do not try to reach, we will have to do things that no other churches are doing yet (as long as these things are short of sin)!

This is a BOLD VISION that needs to be done with a bold calling (that is the part that I talked about), and these calling are:

1. First we have to BE BOLD IN OUR INVITATION! Let us invite our friends who maybe the most difficult to invite to a church! Because if we don’t invite them they maybe lost forever and will even haunt us the question: Why didn’t you invite me to Christ when you know that I will be lost in hell forever?
2. Secondly, BE BOLD IN OUR GIVING in two things: in our Money and in our Service! But let me be clear on the first one…God doesn’t need our money because He owns the whole universe. In asking for it He is asking for our hearts which are closely attached to money. So if you would like to support this vision of leading people far from God we ask for that closest thing to your heart. Besides that will help to meet the requirement to build a High Definition church and quality service to people we would like to bring. We also ask for your service because there will be a big work to be done in the coming move to reach these people who are far from God.
3. Third, BE BOLD IN OUR PRAYERS: Let us pray for our family and friends who seemed too difficult to invite! Let us pray for great provision as we move the church together and let us pray for leaders and volunteers to stand and to come so that we can share the work together!

If we do it together…just picture in your mind that in the future you will be happy to say that you are a part of a movement where people with changed  lives are enjoying each other!

Let me invite you to be with us in this BOLD VISION!