Turning our Church Inside Out Part One. What is the Purpose of the Church?

Turning our Church

Inside OutPart One

What is the Purpose of the Church?

What is the Purpose of the Church?

1. Our church’s purpose is to conduct worship services to help our people experience God.

What is the Purpose of the Church?

1. Our church’s purpose is to conduct worship services to help our people experience God.

2. Our church’s purpose is to teach and take care of our members.

What is the Purpose of the Church?

1. Our church’s purpose is to conduct worship services to help our people experience God.

2. Our church’s purpose is to teach and take care of our members.

3. Our church’s purpose is to attract the lost so they can get saved and become active members in our church.

What is the Purpose of the Church?

1. Our church’s purpose is to conduct worship services to help our people experience God.

2. Our church’s purpose is to teach and take care of our members.

3. Our church’s purpose is to attract the lost so they can get saved and become active members in our church.

4. Our church’s purpose is to make a difference in our community.

Is It Worth It?

• Over the past 15 years the church in America has spent 500 billion dollars on programming, buildings, salaries and ministries without any statistical influence upon church attendance or conversions.

Is It Worth It?

• Over the past 15 years the church in America has spent 500 billion dollars on programming, buildings, salaries and ministries without any statistical influence upon church attendance or conversions.

• In America it takes the combined effort of 85 Christians working one year to produce one believer for Christ.

Is It Worth It?

• Over the past 15 years the church in America has spent 500 billion dollars on programming, buildings, salaries and ministries without any statistical influence upon church attendance or conversions.

• In America it takes the combined effort of 85 Christians working one year to produce one believer for Christ.

• Over the next year in the USA, 1300 churches will be started and 3750 churches will close.

The Defining Question

The Defining QuestionIf our church vanished tomorrow, would our community notice or even care?

Ephesians 2:8-10

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Ephesians 2:8-10

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Two Ways to Do Church

•Attractional Model –

Most of the emphasis in the “attractional” church is upon acts of serving the church itself.

Two Ways to Do ChurchThe Attractional Model – Cares about

what works for us and does what benefits us.

Two Ways to Do Church• Attractional Model - Cares about what works for us and does what benefits us.

•Missional Model – Cares about what God cares about and does what God is doing.

Luke 9:10

"For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

We have the ultimate goal of seeing people led to Christ, but it is not our ulterior motive.

Luke 9:2

“And He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to perform healing.”

Luke 9:11

“He began speaking to them about the kingdom of God and curing those who had need of healing.”