The document emphasizes the importance of enthusiasm, faith, and personal growth in one's spiritual journey, urging believers to make a meaningful impact for future generations. With references to biblical teachings, it encourages individuals to develop love, kindness, and spiritual insight while actively engaging with the church community. The message highlights the need to avoid complacency and to remain vibrant in faith rather than merely existing without true purpose.

1. “Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come
for miles to watch you burn.” John Wesley

7. TAKE PRIDE
in how far you’ve come.
HAVE FAITH
in how far you can go.
Risk Everything
to get there.

8. to extend God’s influence and impact beyond this generation

9. What if you truly believed…
God wasn’t done with us…
The best was yet to be…
Your grandchildren’s faith depended on you…

10. From: Paul and Timothy, slaves of Jesus Christ.
To: The pastors and leaders and all the
Christians in the city of Philippi. May God bless
you all. Yes, I pray that God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ will give each of you his
fullest blessings and his peace in your hearts
and your lives.

11. All my prayers for you are full of praise to God!
When I pray for you, my heart is full of joy
because of all your wonderful help in making
known the Good News about Christ from the
time you first heard it until now. And I am sure
that God who began the good work within you
will keep right on helping you grow in his grace
until his task within you is finally finished on
that day when Jesus Christ returns.

12. How natural it is that I should feel as I do
about you, for you have a very special place in
my heart. We have shared together the
blessings of God, both when I was in prison
and when I was out, defending the truth and
telling others about Christ. Only God knows
how deep is my love and longing for you—with
the tenderness of Jesus Christ.

13. My prayer for you is that you will overflow
more and more with love for others, and at the
same time keep on growing in spiritual
knowledge and insight, for I want you always
to see clearly the difference between right and
wrong, and to be inwardly clean, no one being
able to criticize you from now until our Lord
returns.

14. May you always be doing those good, kind
things that show you are a child of God, for this
will bring much praise and glory to the Lord.
Phil 1:1-11 (NIV)

16. If I knew THEN what I know NOW…
REFLECT MORE, stop running
RISK MORE, stop retreating
RELATE MORE, stop waiting

17. because You Were MADE FOR MORE!
Why Jesus?

18. because You Were MADE FOR MORE!
“When he came to his senses…”
Luke 15:17
Why Jesus?

19. because You Were MADE FOR MORE!
If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has
come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Cor 5:17
Why Jesus?

20. because LIFE IS HARD!
(You can’t do life alone.)
Why Church?

21. Let us consider how we may spur one another
on toward love and good deeds, not giving up
meeting together, as some are in the habit of
doing, but encouraging one another” Heb 10:24-25

22. My heart is full of joy because of all your
wonderful help in making known the Good
News about Christ from the time you first heard
it until now.

23. because FAITH SHOULDN’T BE BORING!
Why This Church?

24. My prayer for you is that you will overflow more
and more with love for others, and at the same
time keep on growing in spiritual knowledge
and insight

25. MtPC Covenant
(1) We will not be BORING!
(2) We will not be CRANKY!
(3) We will not be SPECTATORS!

26. I am not afraid that the people called
Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church
should ever cease to exist … But I am afraid lest
they should only exist as a dead sect, having the
form of religion without the power. And this
undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold
fast to the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with
which they first set out.” John Wesley

27. because FAITH SHOULDN’T BE BORING!
Why This Church?
I would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.