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Category: The Church Alive: Ministries that Move with Jesus
The Church is not a building or a schedule — it is a living movement of people shaped by the gospel and sent into the world.
When Jesus walked among the crowds, He mingled with people as one who desired their good. He didn’t compromise holiness; He embodied love. He built trust before He offered truth.
This series explores what it means for a church to move with Jesus — to create ministries that breathe the gospel in both sacred and secular spaces.
We’ll reimagine Sabbath School, small groups, evangelism, and leadership through the lens of the Incarnation — meeting people where they are, risking misunderstanding for the sake of redemptive love, and learning to speak the language of grace in a broken world.
Our goal is to build parallel pathways of ministry:
Pathways within the church that form disciples, train leaders, and renew worship;
Pathways beyond the church that cultivate relationships in coffee houses, rodeo corrals, digital communities, living rooms, and fire circles — anywhere Jesus would go if He were walking our streets today.
This is ministry that’s bold, biblical, and beautifully human.
It’s not about programs; it’s about presence.
Not about control; about courage.
Not about maintenance; about mission.
The Church Alive calls us to build ministries that move — in step with the Spirit, grounded in the Word, and dripping with the grace and truth of Jesus Christ.
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“We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.”— 1 Thessalonians 2:8 “Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast.’ … When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Do you…
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“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”— Matthew 28:19–20 “Those who had been scattered…
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“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent?”— Romans 10:14–15 “You are the light of the world. A…
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“So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the…
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“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”— Romans 12:1–2 “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth,…
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“No one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.”— Luke 5:37–38 The Tension of Growth The moment the Spirit moves, the church faces a choice:Will we stretch to hold…
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“Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, ‘This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.’”— Luke 15:1–2 “The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors…
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Something remarkable happens when the Church rediscovers who she really is—not an organization trying to survive, but a living body, animated by the Spirit of Christ. Church Alive is a call back to that heartbeat—a vision of ministry that is not defined by programs, positions, or pews, but by people fully alive in Jesus. A Living Vision…
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