The Whole City and Beyond

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The Whole City and Beyond
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A Vision for this One Great City

• Where the Whole Church
• ...Shows Tells the Whole Gospel
• ...To the Whole City - and Beyond

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• May they all be one, Father ... so that the world
  may believe that you have sent me.             
• John 1721   
• When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was
  stirred and asked,  
• Who is this?              
• Matt. 2110

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One Church Many Expressions

• Congregations
• Servant Ministries
• Educational Institutions
• Market Place Missionary
• Theories Theologies

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The Whole Church

• Worship -Lets pray abut it...
• Relationship - Lets talk about it...
• Partnership - Lets do something about it!

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The Whole Gospel

• Conversion!
• Individuals
• Compassion!    
• Needs
• Confrontation!    
• Culture

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The Whole City

• Communication    
• Finding one another
• Cooperation        
• Serving one another
• Collaboration        
• Blessing the City, together

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This one great city . . .

• Does NOT need another       
• Organization or Association  
• Ministry or Meeting
• Conference or Crusade

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This one great city . . . Does need a guiding
group of servant leaders diverse enough to
represent Gods city transformation movement

• Some apostolic - kingdom-sized vision
• Some pastoral - compassion for spiritual
  physical needs
• Some evangelistic - on mission for lost people
• Some prophetic - passion for truth, justice,
  righteousness
• Some teachers - keep us biblically grounded

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This one great city needs. . .

• Men Women from every
• Generation - Boomers Busters, Gen-X ...
• Nation - red and yellow, black and white...
• Denomination - Acts 412 adherents
• Location - City, Suburbs, North, South, East, West

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This one great city needs a . . .

• Listening Team
• What is the Spirit saying?       
• Guiding Group
• What are Gods goals? Plans?        
• Search Committee
• Who shares our vision passion?        
• Convening Group
• How can we connect to serve the city?

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The One Great City Mission Statement

• One Great City exists to serve the whole Church
  throughout Chicagoland, by networking,
  communicating, resourcing and convening pastors,
  ministry leaders and prayer networkers so that
  they collaborate by taking the whole Gospel to
  the whole City and beyond.

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The One Great City Vision Statement

• One Great City envisions a unified Churchpraying
  and working towards a Christ focused
  transformation across the Chicago region.

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The One Great City Plan

• OGC convenes roundtable gatherings of leaders,
  provides a web directory of congregations and
  ministries, and communicates activities and
  opportunities that promote collaborative efforts
  which result in a Christ focused transformation
  of people, neighborhoods and social structures
  and systems

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The One Great City Strategy
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Roundtables

• Annual Citywide/Regional
• Apostolic Leaders
• Neighborhood / Community

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Website

• Every Community ... Congregation
• Every Prayer Network          
• Every Care Ministry            
• Every Share Initiative

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E-Newsletters

• Prayer Care Share updates        
• New resources initiatives
• City Prayer Focus                
• Citywide Prayer Alerts

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Conference Calls

• City Briefings
• Prayer Meetings    (Pray Chicago)

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The LORD said,  If as one people speaking the
same language they have begun to do this, then
nothing they plan to do will be impossible for
them.

• Gen. 116

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• WHAT?    -Strengths?    -Weaknesses?    -Addi
  tions?
• SO WHAT?    ...are the implications for
          gtYou, personally?        gtYour
  Congregation or Organization?
• NOW WHAT?    ...action steps        gtDo you
  need to commit to?        gtDo we need to commit
  to?