Vision for 2026

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His breath fills our lungs. Pretty cool words, aren't they? Words that encourage us and inspire us. I just got a couple of things to share before we open God's Word and look at our vision for what's next as we go towards 2026 and beyond. Just a big thank you to all those who came and celebrated with Glenda Allen on Thursday and for the team who worked to minister to them in the kitchen, supplying what is known and renowned throughout the land as a very well-stocked and catered kitchen. So it was a great testimony to the love we have for people in our church family and a great witness to those who are visiting as well, so thank you for those. A very special day indeed. And I encourage you too, please, with the Christmas Carol, this is my first one, and I'm waiting to see. I want to go put my name down, but I'm expected to be knocked over by people, making their way to volunteer. And so it'd be great to see us all come together. And it's not about us saying, hey, we're a great church. It's about saying Jesus is pretty important. We want you to know about Him and share about Him. This is the time of the year you can focus on that. Well, here we go. We're heading into 2026. Sue's excited that Christmas is just around the corner. Okay, thank you. Yep, it's my enthusiasm as well. It's happening too quick. Folks, one of the things I suppose about when we do look for the future, we look for a vision. And we look for the vision for 2026, and I've got 2026 with a little plus on it, because I think that we look at what's happening next year, but God can do more than that. We want to rest in that in Him and be challenged by that. And as I was doing this, I was just thinking about how do we find our way? Of course, we've got the Bible, but some of you might be familiar with these things. And I know I'm speaking to a certain demographic here, anyone under the age. But this is how we mapped out the future in the past. When we were going on a journey, what we did was we put this out on the bonnet of the car and where we were going. And we thought, okay, this sounds like a good... No distances, yet to guess that bit. Didn't know how much fuel we had. And then as we decided this is the way we're going, we would fold it back up. And we would fold it back up and it would go away so easily. And anyway, that's how it sat in the back of my ute for a long time. With something on it so it wouldn't blow away. But as we go through the future and we have a look at what it's like, we say, Lord, why do we need to plan? Aren't you the God who's alive, who gives us everything? That is what we're going to pray into now. That's what we're going to ask God to speak to us about. Heavenly Father, thank You, Lord, that we are Your children. Lord, we just sung about being children of God. And Father, how You've bought us at a price. Father, we know that there's two types of children, those that were saved and adopted and those who are yet to be saved and adopted. And as a church Father, we ask that You help us to fulfill that mission. Father, that people come to know who You are as Lord and Savior through the actions and lives and the discipling of Kabbaltia Baptist. Lord, it's just a great, it's a privilege and honour, Lord, to walk with You on this journey. Lord, just fill us, Lord, with Your vision. Speak to us, Lord, that we may hear clearly. And Lord, I pray as always the words I speak, Lord, won't be my words, but Your words, a message for Your church in Your name. Amen. So when we come to planning for the journey, we usually do certain things. So we have an intentionally setting points of destination. On our map here, I've got down where we've actually been in Queensland. Didn't worry about the other states, they're not really important. And Queensland, so we've been all over, not as much as we'd like, we've been all over the place, but I said to Sri a couple of years ago, let's go to the dig tree, which is way out on the border. So we set sail for the dig tree, yet to plot our course. And so by plotting our course, we had to take certain considerations, considerations were around about how many towns we're going to meet, what towns are we going to be in, I'm not going to bother with that anymore. How are we going to put all this together, how much fuel we need, considering as many possible variables as possible, like all the things that happen, like toilet stops and morning teas. I travel with a guy once, we travel with a team of people, we had three caravans, I called them the caravan of courage, and we went out into Western Queensland, and I had down 600K a day, that was my plan. Now I wasn't mucking around, and the gentleman who came with said, you haven't factored in here morning tea and afternoon tea and lunch. And so we narrowed it down to 600K, 400K a day, and he liked to arrive at the destination at four o'clock in winter, and the sun's not quite set to set up camp. So we had a plan, and when we consider that and we look at us as a church, what does that mean for us, when we consider visioning for next year, year and beyond, the plans we have, your plans, what are your plans to be part of the church and its mission and ministry as we go forward? You ever thought about that, or do you wait to be told? See, the Bible makes a misunderstanding about sheep. It waits to the shepherd, guides them and keeps them close. I mean, that's biblically sound. It wouldn't be great if we felt inspired as a group to say, well, God, what are you doing next? And that's where it leads us to it. See, God likes to have a plan. He has a plan and a mission. A plan for his church, a plan for the individuals in the church, for the body of Christ for all of you guys, and so that you can play a part in that. And my prayer and hope is as we get our heads around the mission for 2026 and perhaps beyond, that you'll feel, yeah, that's what God's been saying. I can be part of that. God's inspired me. I want to be part of that as well. I've got this to contribute. In Luke 14, Jesus talks about the cost of being a disciple. And there's a couple of elements that I want to draw out of this. It's talking about the kingdom of heaven. And he says in verse 28, suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won't you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? Or suppose in verse 31, suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. So only first sit down and consider whether he is able with 10,000 men to oppose the one coming against him. In verse 33, in the same way those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. There's going to be a cost when we look at the mission. There's going to be a cost about what it means for us. And I love the principles that come out there, the principle of planning. And it just gives me great joy to see what this church has done in all of its history. The lives that it's touched. If I asked you to put your hand up because you came to faith because of the ministry of this church, would you be able to do that for me now? Put your hand up, you came to faith, you came to this church. Okay, remember what Pastor Dylan preached about last week? Put your hand up. Thank you, Pastor Dylan. Pastor Dylan, were you a Christian before you came here? Okay, out of camp, alright. Did this church sponsor you at that camp? Okay. Okay, well you're part of this church. But it's about the ministry, we have the ongoing ministry, isn't it? It's about some of the things that we think about and how it does. Our church council went into retreat. Now, I asked all sorts of questions. I've looked at all previous visions, I've looked at all the previous processes, and I kept praying, Lord show us what you want us to do. Lord, what is it that you're inspiring us to do as a leadership that we can inspire the church? Because we don't want to be up here with a great big stick saying, do it our way, do it our way. Believe the Holy Spirit moves through the group. And so I was really encouraged that I suggested to the church council that we have a four-week pre-prayer understanding that for four weeks we pray into the life of the church and what God wants us to do with a vision and how it's implemented before we get to our retreat. And they all went, yes, let's do it. Now, it happened to me, my timing was terrible, because it happened during our discipleship into interactive studies, integrated studies. And so I sort of pulled it back a little bit from the rest of the church who want to overload you too much. But the group who meets here Tuesday, I say, our prayer has been too, Lord, give us inspiration for the future, give us revelation. When we pray for revelation, things happen. I believe God meets us where we are. And he says, okay, here we go, follow me, trust in me. Proverbs 29, 18 says that where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint that blessed is the one who heeds wisdom and instruction. So blessed, where there is no revelation, there's no plan. Things just happen. And they happen all higgly-piggly and they get in front of each other, they bump into each other, they knock over each other. Ever been to a race where there's no lines on the track, a running race, and people just run into each other? It's the same thing. It's when we have revelation, we have a central purpose and direction, God gives it to us. I believe he gives each of us a revelation about his plan for us in the future, about his way of saying to us, this is how I want you to be involved in the life of the church so that we can be effective for the kingdom of heaven. We have to discern our ways from God. Proverbs 3, 5 and 6, and we learnt this last week, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, yet all your ways submit to him and he will make your path straight. And all your ways submit to him. Put your hand up if you believe in that. I want to see how many people are listening to Pastor Dylan last week. Okay, thank you. If we submit our ways to him, there's nothing that God can't do. But we've got to be obedient. We've got to be the ones to say, yes, Lord, I'm going to sign on for this. Yes, Lord, I see your hand at work. When the church council retreated, and I don't mean like he's a cavalry retreat, he aches and runs the other way. When they went into a time of meditation, we learnt about that in our discipleship course. We learnt about withdrawing with God, we learnt about listening and praying with God. The four weeks, I'm going to read through quite quickly what they prayed about. Father, reveal to me the gifts of our people and the strength of our ministries and how we best harness them for your kingdom. Father, reveal to me how I can most effectively contribute to your kingdom. Lord, what is it your will for this church? That's week one. I've responded to God. They wrote down what God spoke to them about. Father, we want to serve you effectively in the Kabbaltia Baptist Church, both in the local community and wider world. We are currently on a big block in the centre of our community. Father, reveal to me the strengths of our current facilities and location. Lord, how can we make the most of them? Lord, I humbly, as you, I ask humbly as you reveal to me new ministries and missions. You see the profoundness in the prayer? They weren't wishy-washy. Lord, make this happen. It's actually seeking. I encourage you and I challenge you that when you're praying, they have big bold enough to pray those prayers. They say, Lord, I'm laying this all out before you. Please speak to me about this. I continue week three. Father, we want to serve you effectively as the Kabbaltia Baptist Church, both in our local community and wider world. Sometimes this means that we must stop doing things because you want us to apply our energy and resources elsewhere. You ever thought about that? You ever thought about the fact that God might actually close the ministry down because he wants to change direction? Boy, that's going to cause a few things, isn't it? Ah, name all worship team next week. I know we can't have that, sorry. Father, reveal to me anything in our church that is not of your will for our future that requires removing. Lord, according to your will and purpose, reveal to me new ways, actions and programs that may have never been disclosed before. I don't know how you're feeling right now. I'm feeling a little bit nervous and excited. When I was reading through these prayer points, I was like, this is awesome. I can't wait to see what happens. You should have seen the room up there. We had butchers paper everywhere. We were writing stuff down. It was tremendous. Lord, as your body and the light into the world, we want to honour you through our witness in the community. Father, bring us into unity when you reveal your way. Father, reveal in me anything that requires my repentance and forgiveness. Show me where my role in your plan is for this church that I may humbly contribute to your kingdom. Lord, reveal the ways you want me to pray as an intercessor throughout the next steps for our leaders and pastors. This is what your church council, our church council did for four weeks, poured their hearts out to God. Does that give you some encouragement? I pray that you are praying for them the whole time too, that they listen to God and hear God and they can lead with God beside them. I was so encouraged when I heard the responses and we put them together and we started to glean through and look for commonalities and we understood that prayer is listening, reading the Bible, meditating, listening and seeking Him. Isaiah 55.8 says, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, either are your ways, my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts your thoughts. Once we got to that point, we thought, okay, Lord, let's go back and have a look at what's happening in the life of the church. So bearing in mind, we've got, hey, someone stole this. We've got the different vision things on the wall here, vision emblem and symbols or whatever, and we thought about those. So as we went back to the enduring mission statement of this church, before the slide changes, oh, too quick, Catherine, does anyone know what an enduring mission is? You can say it out loud. You know, as a football coach and as a sports coach, I'd gather the team together before the game. I want them to be switched on. I used to ask them questions. I was waiting for a response. You would not have made the field if you responded like that to me in the boot dressing shed. What is our enduring mission statement? Committed to going for Christ. Committed to growing in Christ, committed to going for Christ. Yeah? You feel that? Every ministry mission happening in this church comes out of that enduring mission station. It's been around for 250 years. Ever since Dave Loder was here early. And I can remember when he spoke about it. He was a young, slim man. Love you, brother. But if we're committed to growing in Christ, committed to going for Christ, what does that mean? How does that work out in the life of the church? Easy to have a stamp and put it on our paperwork and go, yeah, we're pretty good. Paul Logan head wobble, we can do great things. But God speaks more than that. And I believe that he has this message for us today. You see, out of that enduring mission statement comes our values. And our values, I'm not going to speak about one today briefly because you know it, no doubt. It's about being informed. So we have four values, the first one's informed. And the understanding of that broadly and really nutted out is mastering God's word because we believe in the Bible, believe the Bible is God's word. We will be students of the word following God to speak to us through reading, discussing and being taught about it. When we understand that that's one of our values, informed, then that permeates then through our church. You see, from our, our, our, our enduring mission statement, things come out of that. Below that we have our values. Below that we have a mission statement which we're going to share with you a little bit longer. And also we have a goal above that. And so we're going to develop for us, I suppose, a way of just addressing it. So people say, what does this church believe? We believe in the Trinity, we believe in the Word of God, we believe in baptism, we believe in communion as the celebration of Christ's life and love. We believe that the Holy Spirit speaks to us. We believe we can be regenerate in the Holy Spirit. We also, we understand that we have a pattern in place. And one of those is for us, is that we are an intergenerational church. Yeah? We're an intergenerational church. So not only are we informed, we are the Bible, but part of that too, coming out of our commitment to growing and going, is we're intergenerational. If you don't believe me, have a look around. I wonder how many kids are out in Christ today? How many kids are in kids' church? How many kids are in the church here? How many young people are here? How many people in their 40s are here? How many people in their 60s are here? How many people in their 80s are here? There's quite a few. Yeah, why the flag sister represents. And so because we are an intergenerational church, then what we do as a church, and we do for the kingdom of heaven, comes out of that. So we have to think like that. Because when you look at the Bible in Acts, in the early days in Acts, I got the church together, they were eating the bread, and they were eating the bread, and they were breaking the bread, and they were praying, and they were having prayer together, and they were doing sorts of things because they were intergenerational. Didn't say the kids go out and play out in the fields. The kids sat and watched. I want to encourage you that as we have this understanding of being an intergenerational church, particularly our ministry leaders, how that's going to feed into the future of where we're going. Not only are we mastering God's word, but those two scripture verses that really give us impact. And the ones of 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17. All scripture is God's breath, and it's useful for teaching, rebuke, and correcting, and training in righteousness. So the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. You know the word, the phrase there, good work, is Argos earth on. What it actually means is the work that God has planned. It doesn't mean you're a good person, you're helping feed the poor, or you're a good person, because you help the person out in the fire drill. It's actually doing God's work. So we're being equipped to do the work that God has planned for us. I wonder what that is for you. What that is for our church, and that's the direction. That's our vision for going forward. It's saying, God, we want to honor that, because that's part of who we are. That's part of our values that we are informed. The second verse that are attributed to this as well is your word is a lamp into my feet, light into my path. Or we can give testimony to that, can't we? That God speaks to us, He shows us, He gives us a word. Sometimes we're struggling. I've got an old Bible at home, it's a really thin one, the print's really small, it's haven't used it for a while. But in the back it's got all these things. What to do when? When you're discouraged, when you're looking for vision, when you're looking for, and our vision's not there, when you're looking for strength, when you're looking for endurance, when you're struggling with sin, and it gives you these Bible verses. The word that speaks to our heart and shows us the way. That is why I hear the pastor, the other pastor is Dave, and Dylan speak about opening God's word, and they're praying in God's word, and they're developing messages, and they're looking at the future, and what's going to happen in the life of the church, the ministries they apply their lives to. It's all based on the word. It's not out of human endeavor. We encourage you to do that. That is one of our values we hold closely, and that's something we need to take to heart. The leaders and discipleship group leaders, the challenge for you is, does that part of what you are? Do you meet to understand God's word, to let it master you, to help to develop your way, and to help you to mature in faith, or you just get together and have a party, have a bit of bickies and talk about the weather and how your car exploded into flames in the carpark of Bunnings? Or is there other things you talk about? I want to encourage you church, this vision for 2025 is going to be awesome. God's going to do some great things, but we've got to get along beside Him. We've got to say, yes, Lord, we're in for the thick of it. Let's go. So then it came down to a verse, and understand we have a verse every year, yeah? I'm going, how does this verse thing work, guys? Well, Pastor Doug and they told me the story. You know, we didn't get to the verse. We went away for a whole retreat. We went over the whole day, we locked ourselves away in one of the rooms in the library from 8-4, a little break for lunch, and we went through all the ups and downs. We looked at all the different aspects of what God was praying for, and we couldn't arrive at a verse. One person said in the group, you know, let's not push it. Let's not try and make God fit our timeline. Let's just give God room to move. And I said, ah, when you're leading a retreat, you love hearing those things, because you can just say, hey, guys, we're not this way, and go, mm, they wrote it all down. We're actually paying attention. When you watch what's happening in the minds and watching God work, it's just exciting, no way. But yeah, okay, well, wait. So we waited for a little while. Eventually God declared a verse for us. But in the meantime, the questions were asked of this. What is our purpose as a church? Well, if I asked you that question, what would the answer be? If someone in the street asked you that question, why don't you guys go to that place? Looks like a pizza hut in the corner of Granton Time Road. That one, what's your purpose? What do you do it? I wonder what your answer would be. It's always a tough one. Our purpose is to enact the mission, values that God has set before us to make an impact for the kingdom of heaven, to make it effective, to be an effective church to all generations, to the kingdom of heaven, and to glorify God. God. To intentionally glorify God. Not accidentally, not just something that happens, but you intentionally glorify God. When you put that little word intentionally in there, it takes a whole different meaning. So what verse could God bestow upon us? Humble, vile, foul sinners that aren't perfect but forgiven for the next year and perhaps beyond. Well, it was James 15.8. And this is the words of James 15.8. Sorry, John 15.8. See, that's it. Paying attention. Thank you. I was reading James this morning. This is my father's, this is to my father's glory that you bear much fruit showing yourselves to be disciples. Now, we've been learning about disciples for years. We've been saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is good stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we talked in the last three weeks about putting it into action, didn't we? About being intentional about our discipling, about looking for opportunities. I believe you have a task that when's that task due to be brought in past the Dillon? Every week for three weeks. Did you want to come up here quick, jump up here now and ask them and make them feel bad if they didn't respond? Okay. He's praying for you and he's watching you. That was Pastor Dave. Dave, you gave out a sheet, didn't you? A sheet to respond with. A lot of people took that one up as well. We don't just give these things out, guys, and hope. We give them out and we ask you to respond. Because we believe that God's place is our heart and message for you. And humbly we bring it before you. We ask you to respond. This is to my father's glory. That you bear much free, showing yourselves to be my disciples. Just quickly we'll go through and see what this looks like in action. Discipleship in action. To bring glory to God. In our desire to see the lost saved. Would you all agree that's pretty good one? That's pretty, that's happens, yeah? Do you know anyone who's lost who's not saved? Or do you only surround yourself with saved people? Yeah, no, that doesn't happen, does it? But there are people who want to know about Jesus. There are people who don't yet know about Jesus. I've said before and I was praying. There are those who adopted into the kingdom of heaven. Those who are yet to be adopted in the kingdom of heaven. We've got to have hope in that. We are bid into the call and mission. Matthew 28, 19 and 20. All authority is given to me, Jesus said. Go and make disciples in my name. Teach them to obey. And baptise in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and I will with you always to the end of the age. The first part of that great commission starts off with all authority. Comes from one source. So even though we are man trying to put this whole vision thing together and we're going to be a great church. It's only one source that gives the authority for that's God. We seek to be intentional in our planning. We seek to be intentional in our planning and our implementation. Mr Lee, you're going to be given some challenges the next few months about what your ministries look like. About why you're doing what you're doing and how your kingdom focuses on it and what your intentionality is behind it before God. Not from a man made thing that you can control it but from what God is saying to your heart and saying this is how I want you to do it. This is how I want it to come out to be part of the big picture for me. Over in Joshua 3 there's a passage that talks about intentionality and about planning. The Hebrews left. The Israelites had left under Moses' leadership. They bolted from Egypt. They went to Canaan. They saw all the giants freaked out. God said, right, that's it. 40 years wandering. Then they came back under Joshua's leadership. Joshua was a man of God. As a man of my house, we will worship the Lord Joshua said. In chapter 3 in Joshua, they're crossing the Jordan. I won't read the whole aspect out. I want to focus in on a couple of things. God was saying, tell the priests to carry the covenant when you reach the edge of the Jordan waters go and stand in the river. Not at the edge of the river in the river. This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will certainly drive out those before you, the Canaanites, the Hitonites, etc. Verse 13 As soon as the priests who carry the ark of the Lord the Lord of all the earth set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will cut off and stand up in a heap. The Jordan was in flood and the guys carrying the covenant were obedient, trusted in God and stepped out of the comfort zone. Now the Jordaners and all the during the harvest yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge the water from upstream stopped flowing and it piled up in a distance far away. When we have the leading from God stepping out in faith when we have a virtue that challenges us to glorify God to bear fruit, to be his disciples then how we do that then comes in to how we intentionally that's what God's called us each and every one of us to do and to call us as a church as well I encourage you that he's calling us as a church. John 15 talks about bearing much fruit and I had a bit of a think about this because this can get quite discouraging. When I was doing the football club ministry I was doing it for 14 years or 13 years and at the start people in the church were saying where are the footballers, why aren't they coming to Jesus you're supposed to be bearing fruit and it really concerned me that they were probably right and I thought there was a burden on my heart and I was sharing ministry and we were praying about and trying to find what God was saying to this and then it occurred to me that throughout that time there were people who were asking deep spiritual questions cloaked in all sorts of worldly understanding there were opportunities to sit beside a person whose father had died and to speak with them about the kingdom of heaven totally unchurched there were times when there were inducted funerals and I remember doing a funeral for a truck driver he drove for Nolans which is a huge company 180 trucks in the Lockyer Valley all over Australia and I remember standing at the front of the church in the coffins before me and there's the back wall full of these truck drivers that made me look like I was small most of them had big bellies and I was sharing with them about this man's life and the family and the family's a football club family everyone's connected in the country and I was sharing with them and watching these guys tear up the fruit that we have is the fruit that says this is the kingdom of heaven you can be saved here's a stepping stone for you when it says in Scripture much the Greek word for that is great in number and abundance we should expect abundance we should expect the questions expect the opportunities the fruit is increasing number of believers which is evangelism or the invisible power of the Holy Spirit working inwardly and outwardly as deeper relationships work it really excites you when you see a person who's come to faith and then you come back a few years later and they're doing great things for God that was one of the blessings that we have coming back here is that when we left there was people doing stuff for God and going great guns there was new people in faith and we came back we sort of had a bit of an eye around to see what was happening not in judgement but to understand what God was doing in the life of Kabbaltia Baptist and those people doing great things for God people are grown in God because of the ministry of the Spirit of each other in the life of the church so when we bear much fruit things happen and as a desire to see all generations grow maturely in Christ no matter where you are there's someone around you the prayer group that meets on a Tuesday morning I said to them one day I said as we finished praying God gave me a word and popped into my head and I said hey next Sunday find someone outside of your demographic to speak to nicely you can always say the little kids stop no sorts of thing I challenged the day after church find someone outside of your demographic someone outside of your group your discipleship group and just say g'day and introduce yourself Tony Woldock went up to Dave Nixon when we were pulling the playground apart and said g'day Dave how you going what's your name my name's Dave you're new to the church and I've been here 10 years Tony for 10 years and how long have you been here Tony 10 years and he looked over and the next couple of weeks we were doing some digging and Terry Barron was sitting in the escapade and he said who's that guy over there I said oh that's Terry Barron's oh yeah I said how do you know him I said he comes to our church and no Terry's been here since little boy we can never ever miss up an opportunity to talk to somebody outside of a demographic and say g'day and just find out how God is working in their life it doesn't have to be a deep spiritual conversation it's about taking this passage of scripture this John 15 18 and saying we want to develop as a church before you Lord with all strength and power you've given and perhaps beyond that we will bear much fruit that will glorify you and people will know that we are disciples because not because we wear a badge that says I'm a disciple because they see God working out his life in us Colossians 1 9 to 14 9 to 14 says these words for this reason since the day we heard about you we have not stopped praying for you we continually ask God to forgive you with the knowledge of his will through all wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way bearing fruit in every good work growing in the knowledge of God being strengthened with all power according to his glorious glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience our focus verse for 2026 and beyond 2026 is this one this is my Father's glory that you may bear much fruit showing yourselves to be my disciples that sounds like a challenge and affirmation rolled in one, yeah? sounds like something we can sink our teeth into it can be lots of ministry and mission we believe God's going to build out of this we spend weeks praying about what we're doing to get before God the next slide I'm going to show you is just how this is going to be presented over the next few weeks and if you have a look up on the screen we have one goal and we just call it that because that's not where we're going but it's an important part of our church life is to be an intergenerational church we have two commands growing and going we have four values which we'll get to and we have something new it's called a missional statement and I challenged the church council I said how can we take the words of our values and just cut them down a little bit not to lose the intensity of the meaning but to make it something that when we put on our website we put it somewhere out that people in the world can read and go that's what that church is on about that's their missional statement and the first part of it is this Cabalchia Baptist is an intergenerational church that aspires to honour our heavenly Father by living as disciples informed by the Bible that's the first part in that design you'll see it around increasingly more and more as we grasp hold of it and enact it and the symbols, the little icons we have I'm going to encourage you to use those in your ministry to sit them in somewhere to poke them in if you're on into a Bible study group discipleship group and informed might slip into your paperwork or into your into your email you'll certainly appear up here in front of you as a church we want to understand that God has got plans for us and he doesn't want us to sit around he doesn't want us to be inanimate he wants us to be dynamic for him he wants us to be living out John 15a this is my Father's glory that you bear much fruit showing yourselves to be my disciples let's pray we thank you Lord that he wished that none would perish as a everlasting Father as a personal relationship with you and Father as we humbly come before you as a church Father we ask that you help us Lord and guide us through implying and implementing this Lord this verse into our lives into the life of the church Father all our ministries and missions Lord will see it as an inspiration Father I pray there will be an accord of your spirit, a oneness in Christ Father I pray that people will come to the ministry of Kabbaltia Baptist and I pray that Lord isn't we coming to the Christmas time we looked at Jesus as the gift Father we pray that people will want to know more about that gift we pray Lord for softening hearts Lord we praise you Lord you called us to a mission not to sit in an air conditioning building and become fat and faithful Lord to be dynamic for you Lord to be people who reach out for you Lord help us to have every conversation with you Lord we ask these things in your name Amen