Dreams for Awaken Orlando
Awaken Orlando is celebrating its one year of existence through a Vision night tomorrow (June 25, 2007). We launched Awaken Orlando on July 9, 2006. It has been an exciting year. I remain amped up by God’s calling of me and our team to this great adventure. We are committed to becoming a community of God’s dreams.
What might this look like?
Awaken Orlando is devoted to becoming a…
Catalytic missional community that reflects and embodies Jesus Christ in and for the World.
Catalytic – Our community is transformative and an initiator of action. We want to serve as the salt of the earth and light of the world.
Missional – Our community exists for the service of God’s mission in the world. Our focus of mission in the world. We are not a community of insiders, but instead we are focused on reaching the outsider with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Community – Our community is a community where each member is loved authentically and genuinely as the person whom God created him or her to be. We are friends and co-conspirators in God’s work in the world. Yet our community is not a closed one. All are welcome. In fact, we view every new person as a gift whom God has sent to Awaken.a
Reflects and embodies Jesus Christ – Our community is committed to inward transformation so that we can live lives that demand explanation—lives that deeply reflect God’s character. We want to so belong to God that His character, prerogatives, and values permeate through us to others.
In and for the World. The arena of our lives is not a building but the world. We are not sequestered or separate from the world, but rather we belong to God and as Jesus’ followers we live the eternal “Go†as we follow our LORD and Savior to seek and save the lost. We want to be a community that leaves the ninety-nine to find the one.
© 2007 Brian D. Russell
Sounds like God is using your community. May his mission drive you for this next year and beyond.