Arrowhead Church, Morristown | Vision Campaign
There’s no need to reinvent the church.
We have the blueprint in God’s Word for the way forward.
We’re dreaming an old dream for a new generation.
How?
Four Ways.
Future Church
One: Simple Gatherings.
Future Church One: Simple Gatherings.
Simple Gatherings.
We follow the command of Scripture to gather together to worship Jesus and encourage one another. We preach the Bible because we believe the Bible. We call out boldly because we’re hopeless unless God moves. Want to see the glory of God again in our day. Our response to Him is full surrender.
Nothing flashy or fancy - the future church doesn’t spend its Sundays on technology or man-centered power. It leans on the power of being fully surrendered. In the mid-1800s, Dwight Moody said, “The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to Him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.”
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Two: Private devotion.
Future Church Two: Private devotion.
Private devotion.
Churches are made up of people in all stages of their journey. Some in our gatherings don’t believe yet, but most are beginning to or continuing to give Him more and more obedience out of a heart of love for Him. That heart is formed publicly in response to his Word, but we must cultivate a love for Him in private. At Arrowhead, we produce resources and walk together through them to help us all learn to read the Bible for ourselves and to put it into practice.
The future church won’t rely only on one man or one leader as a spiritual guru. It will be full of power because its people love God’s Word and study it for themselves. It won’t settle for not knowing how to pray but will have in its practice a regular system for laying our requests out before the Lord. This devotion isn’t done in isolation, but is instead discussed and brought into the light in conversation with friends processing their next steps together.
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Three: Real friendship.
Future Church Three: Real friendship.
Real friendship.
Individual faith is the air we breathe, but we see a New Testament faith that refuses to stand alone while our brothers and sisters are lonely. We are returning to a day when we prioritized friendships and honesty through a discipleship strategy of taking next steps with Jesus together as men, women, and families.
“Churches often talk about community, which is good. But they don’t often talk about friendship, which is not good. We encourage community in general, but we forget friendship in particular. But while we can be “in community” with hundreds, we can only experience true friendship with a few. In truth, a church with deep community is most likely a place in which each person goes deep with a handful of others. These are not isolated cliques but overlapping networks of relationships.” (Drew Hunter)
Stay tuned to Sunday messages in the Future Church series to see how we’re defining discipleship and friendship in a new season beginning in fall 2024.
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Four: Radical sacrifice.
Future Church Four: Radical sacrifice.
Radical sacrifice.
August 2024-July 2025
$2.1 million total, including $450,000 for new initiatives
Churches are built on the backs and out of the pockets of their people, as led by the Holy Spirit. We will have to sacrifice to get to the future.
We need money for a next generation facility.
In August 2023 we added a third service. Now, on a regular basis rooms designed for 10 preschoolers once again have 15 or more at all three of those service times. Our Wednesday night youth program, Fuse, attracts nearly 200 middle and high schoolers each week, and they’re served by nearly 50 adult volunteers dedicated to pouring their lives into the next generation. We need a meeting space for them, and it’s worth a high cost.
Goal: $360,000
We need money for outreach to our community.
Morristown and Jefferson City are growing. Over 1,000 homes are on the books for the next few years. Once it seemed best to a young ambitious man or woman to go away to school and never return to the Lakeway area, but the last decade has told a different story. Families are putting down roots and new neighbors are moving in from all over the country to our beautiful neck of the woods. Let’s reach them with solid conviction about truth and about friendship.
Goal: $35,000
We need money for local and global mission.
Students and adults are being called out from our church by the Holy Spirit for a life of impact. Nearly 50 of them sense a call, not to mention those who come to us through close affiliation with the university nearby. What else do we want to be known for funding besides taking the gospel to the remaining 3 billion people in the world who’ve never heard His name? The opportunity is here, and it awaits our resources. Our resources are also needed as we live sent together in local opportunities for gospel advance.
Goal: $55,000
Stand with us to give $2.1 million toward the general fund between August 1 (2024) - July 31 (2025).