Pastor
Dear Pastor,
There are hundreds of benefits to the God's Grace Unlimited Church Life Love4God Celebration – so please pardon our unusually long list of “pain-finder” questions!
Are any of the following true for you?
Are you frustrated at the broad range of people in your community that your church is not reaching?Or has your sense of urgency or mission been blunted by the hammer of hard knocks?
Do you have a gnawing feeling that you’re not focused on the right things – but you just can’t put your finger on what might be wrong?
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For sinners only Less than 6 minutes
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Are you weighed down, burnt out, worn out, & stressed, and still not getting the results you want for your ministry and God’s kingdom? And has God made you feel very, very hungry lately – you find yourself salivating for his treasures of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding?
Is your church in need of a breakthrough?Do you ever feel on Sunday mornings like your speaking into a giant, empty canyon?
Does your stomach feel queasy because of members who are wandering spiritually or morally?Are you grumpy because you can’t figure out how to turn back the darkness in America and the world – how to crush Satan’s walls and pound them to powder by God’s Spirit?
Are you creative but wacky-scattered - or organized but stodgy-dull and predictable? (Welcome to the human race!)Are you dejected because your church is not growing as you would like?
Are your church’s members bearing little or no fruit? Are they frankly hearing the Word gladly but not doing it?In short, do you feel the pain of needing more of God’s grace – the breakthrough kind?
Before you consider launching church drives, programs, or gimmicks, discover …
“How your church can encounter a life breakthrough, shattering the handcuffs of time and money constraints.”
The Church Life Love4God Celebration comes alongside your church to transform your band of believers into a highly productive, well-disciplined, community-leading team of world-changers who love what they do because they are winning!
God’s Grace Unlimited survey is a method to engage the people of the church to carefully do God's Word, so as to live and walk in it.
A couple of benefits of the Church Life Love4God Celebration are listed in Hebrews 12:14b-15a – “Work at living a holy life, because those who aren’t holy won’t see the Lord. And look after each other so that none of you fails to get God's grace.”
"I can't stand it!"
Does your church have this kind of passion? Picture the desperate prophet Jeremiah as he said: “If I say I’m not going to remember God anymore or speak in his name, then in my heart it becomes a burning fire shut up in my bones – I’m too tired to hold it in, I can't stand it!” (Jeremiah 20:9)
God's Grace Unlimited’s message is not really from God's Grace Unlimited – it comes from God who sent God's Grace Unlimited. Anyone who wants to do God’s will, he’ll know whether our program is from God or is just our own program. (John 7:16-17)
If you asked five of your church members one of these questions, what would they answer?
“How well would you say you are getting engaged in carefully doing God's Word, so as to live and walk in it?”-or-
“On a scale from 1 to 10, would you say that you’re Jesus’ brother/sister because you hear God’s word and do it”?At a God’s Grace Unlimited Church Life Love4God Celebration, a local church teams up together to get more of God’s grace by examining herself to God’s standards and identifying areas of opportunity – much like the Believer survey does for the individual. The local church emerges with a powerful new approach to her vision, goals, and dreams.
- Iron sharpens iron – so one man sharpens another. (Prov 27:17)
- If we judge ourselves rightly, God won’t judge us. (1Cor 11.31)
… are just a few of the liberating biblical principles behind the event.
Can every believer in your church really say “I’m Jesus’ brother because I hear God’s word and do it” – with justified, biblical confidence!? (Luke 8:21)
Pastors like you are much like anyone else – they can't read minds! How can you be expected to know the spiritual state of every member of the flock Jesus has entrusted to you?By spiritual discernment? Yes. But while the gift of spiritual discernment operates gloriously in many cases, it may not be intended to cover every lamb in every moment – do you agree?
By watching their actions and words? Yes. But can you, by yourself in the 24 x 7 hours allotted you each week, assure that each and every believer keeps getting more of God’s grace to grow amid the huge variety of satanic assaults and human frailties they face?Or has God outlined a different plan for your sheep to thrive under your care in safe pastures? [Section 1 GGU Manual]
Jesus asks each of us, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’ but don’t do what I say?” (see Luke 6:46-49). And he said that the person who has his commands and keeps them is the one that loves him (John 14:21).
The Church Life Love4God Celebration helps churches identify areas of opportunity to show genuine love for Jesus and get a hold of more of God's grace!
To get a free peak at a truly unique and highly effective way to get more of God's grace, through a process of self-surveys to God's Word, that when fully applied can radically change your life, click here (to the FREE Love4God Survey for Believers).
Steps of the Church Life Love4God process
- Before a Church Life Love4God Celebration can be held, 75% of the Sunday churchgoers (average number of attendees of all morning services) must complete the Believer self-survey and have identified actions to address the personal opportunities for improvement their self-survey uncovered. No one ever sees the Believer self-survey except the person who completed it. The Believer self-survey is available online (in extreme cases GGU can provide the Believer self-survey in hard copy).
- Those who have completed the Believer survey 5 days in advance of the Church Life Love4God Celebration are now eligible to attend the event.
- The GGU facilitator comes to your church for the Church Life Love4God Celebration.
- Through the event's survey process, the local church team will identify its wins to celebrate and opportunities for improvement. The main tool used is a survey similar to the one individual believers used before the event to identify their own individual opportunities for improvement.
- Action Plan. The facilitator will advise (will not direct) the church during the creation of an action plan that addresses the opportunities for improvement discovered at the event. GGU does not prescribe actions – however, it suggests resources that the church may find helpful for addressing the opportunities for improvement. (GGU doesn’t receive any revenue for most of the resources it offers, and discloses those items that do provide revenue to GGU.) Near the end of the event, the GGU facilitator will review the church’s action plan.
- Six weeks after the event, the GGU facilitator will contact the client church to confirm that the actions in the plan have been completed and closed. On mutual agreement of successful completion of the GGU process, GGU will award a certificate to the church.
- Discounts for the event are available for pastors who recruit multiple churches for a single event on a day slot available on the GGU calendar. We encourage organizing an event with three to five local churches participating – and events of more than one church tradition participating is strongly encouraged.
A broad list of the liberating biblical principles behind the Church Life Love4God Celebration is available in the first section of the GGU Manual.
Holy Spirit, please guide the Love4God facilitators and the responders throughout this survey process – be glorified in all we do throughout the event and the follow up. Thank you.
