REPRODUCING CHURCH

In the month of April, we (Dennis and I…along with the debut of Mike Foster…also Lance Hurley and Todd Tate rounding out the lineup) will be sharing an exciting sermon series revolving around the future of NPC. We will be talking about how we are called to be a “Reproducing Church”. What does “reproducing church” mean? Well, we will be spending 5 weeks covering that very thing. I will give you a brief overview today, but will be spending more time in the coming days going into more detail with this Biblical concept. The prayers and hopes of this series is to teach about and prepare our congregation for the multi-site church experience we are embarking on.

Dennis Corley will be starting off the series April 13th with a study on the mentoring process and transition that he and I have been in. He will be basing this sermon on 2 primary scriptures: 2 Kings 2 (the transition between Elijah and Elisha) and Eph. 4 (the equipping of the church). The main theme will be “Example of Reproducing Ourselves”.

I have the great privilege of sharing a sermon from 2 Tim. 2:2 on April 20th. In this sermon I will be challenging people to reproduce the “Life of Christ” living in them into someone else. This will be a time to get more specific about the theology of “individuals reproducing”.

On April 27^th Dennis, Mike and I will be sharing a sermon as a team on what reproducing church means on the cooperate church level. We will look at Acts chapter 2 and see how the Holy Spirit is at the heart of all we do to reproduce church in the multi-site direction…to be able to Reach Up, Reach Out, & Reach In to others for the cause of Christ.

These first three Sundays we stayed close to our backyards of Winthrop Harbor (Jerusalem)…the following 2 Sundays we move from Jerusalem to Samaria/Judea to the ends of the earth. Lance Hurley will be with us, May 4th, sharing the exciting things that the CDEA (Chicago District Evangelistic Association) is doing to plant churches in the Chicago land area (Samaria/Judea). Todd Tate will be here the following week, May 11th, sharing about all the great things that are being accomplished at Rio Bravo Christian Ministries in SanCarlos and surround areas of Mexico (ends of the earth).

I am very excited about this upcoming series. I hope you can all be there or at least get a chance to listen to the sermons online at NPC Sermons.