five
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You may already be a member! CCF measures membership by participation. We borrowed the 5G’s from Willow Creek Community Church and use them to help people evaluate their participation in the life of Celebration Christian Fellowship.
Grace
God saved you by his special favor [Grace] when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.
Ephesians 2:8 (NLT)
Have you experienced saving grace?
Growth
You must crave pure spiritual milk so that you can grow into the fullness of your salvation.
I Peter 2:2 (NLT)
Are you growing in grace?
Groups
They joined with the other believers and devoted themselves to the apostle’s teaching and fellowship, sharing in the Lord’s Supper and prayer...all the believers met together constantly and shared everything they had...
Acts 2:42-46 (NLT)
Who are you doing life with?
Gifts
God has given each of us the ability [Gifts] to do certain things well...Romans 12:6 (NLT)
Do you know what your gifts are? Are they in use?
Giving
You must each make up your own mind as to how much you should give. Don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure. For God loves the person who gives cheerfully.
II Corinthians 9:7 (NLT)
Are you giving of your resources from your heart?
You say you have nothing in common with these people. But isn’t that just the point? You have nothing in common with them; but God does. This just happens to be the way that God goes about making a kingdom, pulling all sorts and conditions of people together and then patiently, mercifully, and graciously making something of them. What He obviously does not do is pre-select people who have an aptitude for getting along well and enjoying the same things. Of course you don’t have much in common with them. The church is God’s thing, not yours.
The church is not a natural community composed of people with common interests; it is a supernatural community. And the
super in that word does not mean that it exceeds your expectations; it is other than your expectations, and much of the other is invisible to you yet.
Eugene Peterson
The Wisdom of
Each Other