Our One Legacy teams give rotating monthly updates to keep the congregation informed. Below is the Equip team's progress update for July.

The Equip team's vision statement: We will lead every saint at Grace Church from spiritual immaturity to maturity in Christ-likeness until Jesus returns.

Revised Pathway

The disciple-making pathway has been revised to be more accessible. Steps are simplified and focused. The pathway emphasizes time spent with your discipler studying key resources to grow in Bible knowledge, practical holiness, service, and Christ-likeness. Anyone who is discipling or being discipled should be able to identify where they are along the pathway and see their next step.

Hopefully this new revision will be more helpful to fellow Arch churches as they also seek to develop a disciple-making culture.

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Developing a Servant's Heart

Every person at Grace is encouraged to get involved in some area of service after the membership class. Your service to the Lord is a crucial part of worship and your own progressive growth in Christ-likeness.

Just like any part of worship, it takes some work to acclimate this new part of yourself into your week-to-week schedule. Please know that no one is in a hurry. We are here to help as much as we can. We desire to help you succeed as you seek to develop your servant's heart here at Grace.

Below is a list of 4 traits of the servant's heart to focus on as you serve here at Grace.

1. Do: A servant of Jesus first learns to serve with a right motives. Personally, we grow to learn the new lifestyle of godly living (1 Timothy 4:7). In service, this practically means showing up faithfully and executing service to the best of your ability to honor the Lord Jesus (1 Corinthians 10:31, Colossians 3:23-25).
2. Delegate: A servant of Jesus may in time be asked to get some needed help to accomplish their service. Jesus got help and taught us to be a good example to those who are helping us. Jesus worked alongside those who were helping him. Model for them as Jesus modeled for us. Don’t expect of them what you don’t seek to do yourself in your service here at Grace (John 13:12-15, Philippians 2:5).
3. Develop: A servant to servants of Jesus. In time, Jesus may give you a burden to encourage faithful servants of Jesus. Having faithfully served and modeled for others yourself, you now may be asked to focus on developing other servants to be successful in their service here at Grace. People, not process or product, are your priority. Multiple passages teach how people serve in the power of the Holy Spirit prioritizing excellence in ministry (Galatians 5:16-25, James 3:13-18, Philippians 4:8-9 and Mark 6:31).
4. Direct: These servants of servants are called by God's people to help guard, shepherd and oversee, and supply biblical vision and direction (Proverbs 16:3, 21:5; Acts 6:3; 20:28; 1 Timothy 3:2; 1 Peter 5:2ff). Their lives are practical expressions of what Christ likeness looks like in the church today (1 Timothy 3; Titus 1).

In pursuit of these characteristics, the elders and deacons are studying Warren Wiersbe's book On Being a Servant of God with Pastor Tim. They in turn will be ready to study the book with other potential servants at Grace.

Feel free to reach out if you have questions about any of the above!

Pastor Kent for the Equip team