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Hello friends,
Welcome to 2017! And our first newsletter of 2017. Lord willing this is the year we will launch as a church. I’m excited. I’m ready. I’m expectant. Let me share with you why.
GOSPEL & FAMILY
Grace Church—the future members covenanted to one another—will make disciples and plant churches by proclaiming and displaying the grace of God to sinners and sufferers.
Benbrook doesn’t need another Sunday service, it needs a family—a compelling community—who ferociously loves Jesus and one another and gives their life to the mission of glorifying God, growing current disciples, and making new disciples. We are not planting a Sunday meeting. We are planting the good news of Jesus (the gospel) and we are planting a family in Benbrook. A family for Benbrook—a city within a city FOR the city, FOR the Southwest region of the Metroplex, and FOR the nations.
“The church is sent on mission by Jesus. It's not that the church has a mission, but rather that the mission has a church. We join Jesus on His mission” – Ed Stetzer
One man who is committed to planting this family with us recently emailed me what the Lord has been doing in his heart in this regard:
“I wanted to share something that has been on my heart. [There are six] kids who have died or have been kidnapped and witnessed death between August 2015 and December 2016 in Benbrook...Benbrook needs the Gospel proclaimed—emphatically and joyfully. I have had a hardened heart towards Benbrook and God has mercifully subdued and patiently corrected me in this. I have lost at least one student a year for the last three years to suicide and [your neighbor’s] death broke my heart for Benbrook and deepened my hatred of sin and death and Satan's lies.”
We already are and we will be a missionary team doing life and ministry together—a family of families reaching families.
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