What We Value - Incarnation

1. INCARNATION

2. MATTHEW28:30
All authority in heaven and on earth
has been given to Me. Go therefore and
make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them
to observe all that I have commanded you.
And behold, I am with you always,
to the end of the age.

3. OURVISION: The Why
Vintage Church exists to be an extended family
that models a Jesus-shaped life by:
• Growing UP (in our relationship with God)
• Diving IN (to our relationships with one another), &
• Reaching OUT (in our relationships with the
world around us)

4. OURMISSION: The What
Vintage Church is an extended-family that seeks to:
• GROW disciples of Jesus
• In AUTHENTIC community
• For Kingdom MISSION

5. (UP)

6. (UP)
(IN)

7. (UP)
(IN)
(OUT)

8. Sharing the life and love of Jesus with
the spiritually disconnected in our lives

9. Sharing the life and love of Jesus with
the spiritually disconnected in our lives
THIS MEANS:
• We’re convinced that our lives are provided
and sustained by God’s self-giving Love

10. Sharing the life and love of Jesus with
the spiritually disconnected in our lives
THIS MEANS:
• We’re convinced that our lives are provided
and sustained by God’s self-giving Love
• We believe it is the kindness of God
that leads us to change

11. Sharing the life and love of Jesus with
the spiritually disconnected in our lives
THIS MEANS:
• We’re convinced that our lives are provided
and sustained by God’s self-giving Love
• We believe it is the kindness of God
that leads us to change
• We want to be generous with our faith, especially
with those who are clearly open to it

12. Being the hands and feet of Jesus
to those in Lawrence and the world

13. Being the hands and feet of Jesus
to those in Lawrence and the world
THIS MEANS:
• We recognize and embrace the call to live
for people and purposes beyond ourselves

14. Being the hands and feet of Jesus
to those in Lawrence and the world
THIS MEANS:
• We recognize and embrace the call to live
for people and purposes beyond ourselves
• We genuinely love – and want what’s best for –
the city in which we live, and the world beyond

15. Being the hands and feet of Jesus
to those in Lawrence and the world
THIS MEANS:
• We recognize and embrace the call to live
for people and purposes beyond ourselves
• We genuinely love – and want what’s best for –
the city in which we live, and the world beyond
• We long to give/serve along lines of connected
relationship, not just by “random acts of kindness”

16. Equipping and sending out leaders for
Kingdom impact, wherever God calls them

17. Equipping and sending out leaders for
Kingdom impact, wherever God calls them
THIS MEANS:
• We wrestle with – but fully embrace – the emotional,
spiritual, and relational challenges of our transient city

18. Equipping and sending out leaders for
Kingdom impact, wherever God calls them
THIS MEANS:
• We wrestle with – but fully embrace – the emotional,
spiritual, and relational challenges of our transient city
• While we have people in our midst, we want to do
everything we can to pour Kingdom life into them

19. Equipping and sending out leaders for
Kingdom impact, wherever God calls them
THIS MEANS:
• We wrestle with – but fully embrace – the emotional,
spiritual, and relational challenges of our transient city
• While we have people in our midst, we want to do
everything we can to pour Kingdom life into them
• If/when they leave, we want to send them out with
blessing, and with tools they can use forever

20. SOUL TRAINING EXERCISE
Find something you can do this week
to serve someone other than yourself…
- Volunteer for a ministry team here @ Vintage
- Tell someone what Jesus has done in your life
- Buy a coffee for the person behind/in front of you
- Start praying about how you can either start
giving generously, or how God might have you
increase your generosity, both to Vintage
and however the Lord leads