EDEN
PRAIRIE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH GOALS
We
commit ourselves to God and to Jesus Christ’s call to be disciples.
We will:
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Celebrate being disciples through worship and fellowship
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Grow in our understanding and experience of discipleship through
spiritual formation for all ages.
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Live our discipleship through service with outreach and missions and in
our daily lives.
·
Invite others to join us in the journey of
discipleship through evangelism and welcoming.
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Celebrate
being disciples through worship and fellowship
We will embrace our spirituality by
naming God in all we do:
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We will include spiritual activities
including prayer, devotion, and/or
study when we gather for meetings and fellowship events.
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We will share fellowship time in our
gatherings centered on spiritual growth.
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We will boldly embrace the relationship
between spirituality and generosity through the giving of our time, talents
and financial resources.
Music
is especially important to our worship experience and life together.
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We will build on this strength and emphasize flexible
programming for all ages.
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We will intentionally make it an important part of our
outreach to our community.
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Grow
in our understanding and experience of discipleship through spiritual
formation for all ages
We will strive to meet the spiritual growth needs of
each person:
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We will support each individual’s unique gift to be in
ministry.
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We will worship, study, and share fellowship across
generations. We will continue to place a high value on ministry for children
and youth with programming to put this commitment into action.
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We recognize that strengthening the spiritual lives of adults
is essential to providing spiritual growth for children and youth.
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We will place emphasis on developing spiritual growth ministry
for adults in small group settings.
We believe that a personal relationship with Christ is
so important that we are committed to
sharing the Good News and our personal
faith stories with others while helping them to develop
their own
relationship with Jesus:
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We will foster discussions and develop ways of naming our own
spiritual struggles and growth and allow others to do the same.
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We will nurture and emphasize individual prayer in all our
groups.
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Live
our discipleship through service with outreach and missions and in our daily
lives
As a congregation, led by the Holy Spirit, we will
become more involved in helping meet specific
current social needs of people
living within our community.
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We will explore the groups and needs of the community.
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We will define options for specific action to be taken by us.
To accept and respond to Jesus’ challenge to love our
neighbors, we will
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Be a congregation that welcomes all people.
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Seek awareness of discrimination and unfairness in the world.
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Educate ourselves and share in prayerful dialogue about social
issues and solutions.
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Offer opportunities to move beyond awareness and education
into action.
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Pray and work for peace and justice
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Invite
others to join us in the journey of discipleship through evangelism and
welcoming
We will offer clear and specific invitations to discipleship
to all members and visitors that extend to
all family members, enabling them
to engage meaningfully in the life of Prairie Church.
We will develop an ongoing process of communicating
our expectations of new and current
members that will include:
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Sharing of prayers, presence, gifts and services.
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Financial giving as an act of faith, responding to God’s
grace.
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Discovery, development and sharing of spiritual gifts.
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Participation in spiritual growth opportunities.
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