Neighbors Community Network

Covenant Presence
Neighbors Community Network


ENCOURAGING CHURCHES TO EXPRESS AND EXPAND GOD’S KINGDOM GLOBALLY

EMPOWERING BELIEVERS TO ADVANCE THE WORSHIP, MINISTRY AND MISSION OF JESUS CHRIST AS THEY
PRACTICE THE TRUTH AND PROCLAIM THE FAITH TOGETHER - FOR GOD'S GLORY AND HIS GOOD PLEASURE

CULTIVATING BIBLICAL COMMUNITIES THAT MOBILIZE CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS TO GODLY DILIGENCE -
LABORING IN LIFE WITH ONE ANOTHER TO “ADVANCE THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH” TOGETHER

LIVING UNDER GOD'S SOVEREIGN GRACE AND REIGNING IN LIFE WITH CHRIST TOGETHER
Give Expression to His Kingdom on Earth by Cultivating Covenant Family Communities that
Incarnate the Truth of God Together and Exemplify the Gospel in Community;
Exhibiting and Expressing Together His Love for God and Neighbor


Purpose:
TO ENCOURAGE CHURCHES TO CULTIVATE BIBLICAL COMMUNITIES THAT MOBILIZE CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS
TO PURPOSELY LABOR IN LIFE TOGETHER TO EXPRESS AND EXPAND GOD’S KINGDOM GLOBALLY -
FOCUSING ON A FOURFOLD STRUCTURAL PROGRESSION:
• DISCIPLING - “ADVANCING THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH" TOGETHER
• REFORMING THE COMMUNITY LIFE OF THE “LOCAL CHURCH”,
• “EQUIPPING THE SAINTS FOR THE WORK OF MINISTRY”AND
• CULTIVATING AND SHAPING FUTURE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCHES

Engaging People Relationally • Equipping Believers Ministerially • Entrusting Leaders Geographically
Personal and Mutual Obedience • Communal and Functional Ministry • Spiritual and Structural Leadership
Matthew 28:18f; Hebrews 3:12f; • Romans 12:1f; Ephesians 4:1f; • Exodus 18:1f; Acts 14:1f; Romans 15:1f

To Mobilize and Empower Believers for Worship, Ministry and Missions by Intentionally Developing Communities that: Shape and Cultivate Discipling Relationships, Ministry Environments and Leadership Infrastructures, and that Properly Function In Life Together for God's Glory and Man's Good; Strategically Shaping and Cultivating Future Churches to Advance the Cause of Jesus Christ Everywhere People Live.


Mission:
TO PERSUASIVELY TESTIFY TO THE GOSPEL OF GOD'S GRACE TOGETHER THROUGH BIBLICAL COMMUNITIES -
SPREADING THE FAITH TO SOCIETY USING PERSONAL, COMMUNAL, VERBAL, SCRIBAL AND VISUAL MEANS OVERWHELEMING CULTURES WITH FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE MINGLED WITH GRACE, TRUTH AND PEACE

GIVING EXPRESSION TO THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS AND COMMISSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST -
TO LOVE GOD AND NEIGHBOR TOGETHER WHILE DISCIPLING ALL THE NATIONS TOGETHER
Mobilizing Believers to "Advance the Obedience of Faith" Together - "Exhorting One Another Daily" to
"Learn and Teach Obedience to Christ"; Imitating, Demonstrating and Communicating His Life and Teachings
Living under God’s Sovereign Grace and Reigning in Life with Christ Together
Romans 5:17; 2 Timothy 2:12; Revelation 5:10, 11:15-17, 19:6, 20:4-6, 22:5


Vision:
TO SEE BELIEVERS EVERYWHERE ENGAGED IN COMMUNITY, EQUIPPED FOR MINISTRY AND ON MISSION TOGETHER WITH FELLOW “LEARNING FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST” THROUGH THE COMMUNITY LIFE OF THE LOCAL CHURCH; POSITIONING THE CHURCH WORLDWIDE TO SHAPE AND CULTIVATE FUTURE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCHES ACROSS THE WHOLE EARTH

Grow in the faith and knowledge of God together - helping one another to really know God through Jesus Christ, realize His kingdom on earth, and resource the healing of the nations by His empowering Spirit.
Cultivate Mutual Discipling Relationships, Functional Ministry Environments, and Compatible Leadership Infrastructures so as to incarnate the truth of God together and exemplify the gospel in community.
Function as discipling communities - being obedient to the commission of our Lord Jesus Christ by exhibiting and expressing together His love for God and neighbor - to shape and cultivate future churches for the expansion of God’s kingdom on earth to every neighborhood through multiplying Covenant Family Communities.

TESTIFY TO THE GOSPEL OF GOD'S GRACE TOGETHER THROUGH BIBLICAL COMMUNITY