Message Notes

Thrive Vision & Values:
The Mission & Vision
Pastor Pete Keirstead
May 26, 2024

  • Thrive is a

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    church dedicated to developing mature disciples who serve its community across generations.

  • Church growth is not optional because

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    is not optional.

Acts 2:47 …And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.

Matthew 28:18-19 Jesus came and told His disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations…”

Proverbs 14:28 A growing population is a king’s glory…

  • Church growth is not optional because it’s how Jesus
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    what we are lacking.

1 Corinthians 12:18-21 But our bodies have many parts, and God has put each part just where He wants it. How strange a body would be if it had only one part! Yes, there are many parts, but only one body. The eye can never say to the hand, “I don’t need you.” The head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you.”

  • Spiritual growth is not optional because
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    is Satan’s goal.

Matthew 13:22 The seed that fell among the thorns represents those who hear God’s word, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life and the lure of wealth, so no fruit is produced.

Revelation 3:16-17 But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth! You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I want. I don’t need a thing!’ And you don’t realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

  • Community service is not optional because we are
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    in the Earth.

1 John 4:17 (NKJV) …as He is, so are we in this world.

Mark 2:3-5 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above His head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”

Ephesians 3:10-11 God’s purpose in all this was to use the church to display his wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. 11 This was his eternal plan, which he carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Multigenerational ministry is not optional because we are one generation away from
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    .

Judges 2:10-12 After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals. They forsook the Lord…

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All scripture is from the NLT unless otherwise noted