Gospel Tool Completion Celebration

Gospel Tool Completion Celebration-

 

We each desire to be faithful to Jesus’ command to “make disciples,” and so we’ve been on an incredible journey together over the last year working our way through The Gospel Tool Bible Study. This has been a way to help us mature and multiply disciples of Jesus Christ. We know that while there may be many ingredients involved in successful disciple making, the following five are absolute essentials:
  • Obedience to Jesus Christ
  • Awareness of the Holy Spirit’s work
  • Scripture study
  • A growing prayer life, and…
  • Christian community
With these essentials as a foundation, the Gospel Tool Bible Study has provided a context for emphasizing the Good News of the Kingdom of God, deepening biblical literacy, and nurturing a vibrant and growing relationship with God, while preparing each of us to disciple others.
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Our vision, moving forward, is that each of us will prayerfully ask: “God, who might I/we ask to go on a journey of growing as a follower of Jesus Christ? Who might I/we study the Gospel Tool with? Since we’ve each completed the study, leading someone else through it wouldn’t require nearly as much work as the first time through, though we expect each person will continue to grow deeper in Jesus as we engage the material afresh.
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Once again, our vision is for each of us to be equipped with the tools to disciple another person towards maturity in Christ Jesus, preparing them to also be able to disciple in the future. We’re trying to create a context for maturing and multiplying, even and especially as we earnestly pray that God reconnect us with our neighborhood!
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Let’s Celebrate! Sundays: October 17 & 24

Since our Gospel Tool Bible Study and sermon series will come to a close on October 10, we will spend the next two Sundays celebrating and setting the stage for what’s next in our discipleship journey. On Sunday October 17, we will come together and joyfully celebrate what the Lord has done in lives during this year of discipleship. Please ask the Lord if he has something for you to share, as we love hearing testimonies of how He’s working, no matter how big or small. On Sunday October 24, we will consecrate ourselves and have an opportunity to ask the Lord what’s next, as we enter into the multiplying phase. We feel like this is a pivotal moment in our Church’s history, and we are so glad you are a part of it! Please put this on your calendar and don’t miss it!

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The Visual Gospel and The Gospel Tool

 

Knowing the Gospel is key to being a disciple of Jesus. As we seek to grow as disciples who make disciples, we have created two related tools to help us all grow as and make disciples.

The Visual Gospel overview, statements, & scriptures:

The Visual Gospel is a visual tool which presents a summary of the Gospel in picture form. This is a tool that we hope can be used to easily remember and share the Gospel story, which we find through all of Scripture.

Click here to download the PDF of the Visual Gospel.

 The Gospel Tool (40 Thought Units).

We have also developed a more in depth discipleship tool that we call The Gospel Tool. Our current sermon series is written in connection to and alongside this tool, and Discipleship Groups at Gold Avenue Church are working through 40 lessons that go along with the sermons and the Gospel Tool. These sermons can be found here: Gospel Tool Sermons. The accompanying sermons are numbered to correspond with the numbers found in the various paragraphs of the Gospel Tool.

Click Here to download the PDF.

 

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Discipleship Group Update 01.06.21

 

Be sure to watch this video for more information about the lessons for our Discipleship Groups! And as an additional reminder, there was an invitation given this past Sunday in the sermon by Pastor Gina that if anyone is interested in joining our Discipleship Groups to contact Stephanie McClain at stephaniemc.gold@gmail.com by Saturday, January 9, 2021!

 

 

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Discipleship Group Update 12.30.20

We are so excited about continuing in our discipleship journey together throughout 2021!

This Thursday, December 31 from 10am- 2pm, you can pick up your Disicpleship Group binder with the first month of curriculum from Toni in the church office at 49 Gold Avenue NW Grand Rapids, MI. If you are unable to pick up your packet, email Toni at goldavechurch@gmail.com.

The Bible Reading Calendar is for everyone so if you don’t have one, please download the pdf below and begin growing in your Bible reading in 2021 begining January 1!

Download Bible_Reading_Plan_Here

 

 

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Discipleship Group Update 11.18.20

Disicpleship Groups started this week!!!

So many wonderful reports have been coming in about how the first meeting time went for those groups that have already met this week! We have great hope for what the Lord will do in each of these groups!

The video below is this week’s update and how you can continue to join us in prayer regarding Discipleship Groups at Gold Avenue Church.

Discipleship Groups are a means of beginning to re-gather, and of each becoming better equipped to obey the Great Commission. We aim to grow as disciples who are being transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ who are cooperating with God in the restoration of the world as we embody, proclaim, and advance the Kingdom of God.

 

 

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Discipleship Group Update 11.11.20

Discipleship Groups are starting up next week!!!  The video below is this week’s update and how you can continue to join us in prayer regarding the development of Discipleship Groups at Gold Avenue Church.  If at any time you would like to look back at the updates we’ve shared on this journey, scroll through the posts in the discipleship category!

Discipleship Groups will be both a means of beginning to re-gather, and of each becoming better equipped to obey the Great Commission. We aim to grow as disciples who are being transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ who are cooperating with God in the restoration of the world as we embody, proclaim, and advance the Kingdom of God.

 

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Discipleship Group Update 11.04.20

Discipleship Corner

The video below is this week’s update and how you can continue to join us in prayer regarding the development of Discipleship Groups at Gold Avenue Church.

Discipleship Groups will be both a means of beginning to re-gather, and of each becoming better equipped to obey the Great Commission. We aim to grow as disciples who are being transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ who are cooperating with God in the restoration of the world as we embody, proclaim, and advance the Kingdom of God.

If you have yet to register, please do so here!

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Discipleship Group Update 10.28.20

The video below is this week’s update and tells how you can continue to join us in prayer regarding the development of Discipleship Groups at Gold Avenue Church. Please take a minute or two to watch and pray!

Discipleship Groups will be both a means of beginning to re-gather, and of each becoming better equipped to obey the Great Commission. We aim to grow as disciples who are being transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ who are cooperating with God in the restoration of the world as we embody, proclaim, and advance the Kingdom of God.

There was a special email that went out last Friday morning. We are in need of your responses! Please read that email and fill out registration so we can get you in the right group for you! Responses are due Friday, October 30!
Click  this link to read the email. 
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Discipleship Group Update 10.20.20

October 20, 2020

Pastor Dave shares this week’s update about:

  1. Host & Facilitators paired up
  2. There is a special email coming to your inboxes this coming Friday with a poll for you to fill out and a lot more information regarding Discipleship Groups!
  3. We finalized the timeline for the group gatherings, more info to come on Friday
  4. Keep praying for church staff as we continue to press on towards November launch
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Discipleship Group Update 10.13.20

As we are in this sermon series on our sure hope, we recall Jesus command to go and make disciples. We have hope to share with the world, and so we are as a church preparing to embark on a year of discipleship. Below you can read about the progress being made on this initiative.
Discipleship Update:
  1. Progress has been made on the curriculum.
  2. Responses from facilitators and hosts were turned in.
  3. A brochure was created and you can read it below.
  4. The purpose, structure, values and goals for groups was clarified.
In the week ahead, we expect:
  1. to hear about facilitator and host availability for meeting.
  2. pair up hosts and facilitators.
  3. prepare a survey to send out next week to you about your availability to meet.
  4. to consider covid principles and guidelines for the groups.
  5. continue to pray as we navigate this new frontier and all the tasks involved.
We appreciate your ongoing prayers for a move of the Holy Spirit to mature and multiply disciples!
Here is a brochure that gives an overview of what the Discipleship Groups will be all about: A Year of Discipleship Brochure
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