This document provides guidance for building a strong church community. It recommends that churches should: 1) Focus on bringing people to faith in God and growing disciples. 2) Encourage members to regularly spend time in prayer and studying scripture to remain close to the Holy Spirit. 3) Develop strategies that are in line with God's will by discerning his direction through prayer rather than personal preferences. 4) Take risks and steps of faith, trusting that God will honor efforts taken in obedience to him, even if the outcomes are not immediately clear.

2. CHURCH
“Gathering to be strengthened. Scattering to be light.”
CHURCH
“Where spirits are lifted, minds are renewed, faith is
increased, & priorities are challenged, by God's
Word!”

3. Brian Houston of Hillsong Church said it really well to
his church
“The more optional church becomes to you, the less
impact it can have on you. He builds His Church to
build your life!”

4. "Let us be a friendly church but beware lest it
be...simply a friendly church."
AW Tozer
(The Dangers of a Shallow Faith)

5. 1. Be HARVEST focused
•

6. 2. Be ABIDERS in the Holy Spirit

7. S.O.A.P.
• S = Scripture: Read a chunk, look for the verse(s)
that spoke to you that day & write them out.
• O = Observation: What do you think God is saying
to you in this Scripture.
• A = Application: Personalise, how does it apply to
your life
• P = Prayer: Write out your prayer and then pause and
listen to God. Write down what He says to you.

8. 3. Build RIGHT Strategies
"The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its
sound, but you do not know where it comes from or
where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of
the Spirit"
[look for wind]
"My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to
accomplish his work"
[less my dreams. more his work]

9. "I say to you the Son can do nothing of his own accord
but only what he sees the Father doing"
[less activity, more abiding prayer]
"For the works that the Father has given me to
accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear
witness about me that the Father has sent me"
[less about me, much more about Him]

10. "And this is the will of him to sent me that I should
lose nothing of all that he has given me"
[less preoccupied by the new thing, more invested
with those he has given me]
"I do nothing of my own authority but speak just as
my Father taught me"
[less personal opinions, more clear divine instruction]

11. 4. Be full of TRUST for significant
heart alignment (AHA)
Ecclesiastes 11:1 (NIV)
1 Cast your bread upon
the waters, for after
many days you will find it
again.

12. HARVEST focused
ABIDERS in the Holy Spirit
RIGHT strategies
TRUST for heart alignment (AHA )

14. Relationally focussed
Resting in the Spirit
Right choices from options you have
Risking yourself on God adventures

15. HART