Church relevance is not a status but a Spirit-led practice of bearing fruit through faithful service. It involves growing in grace, cultivating Christ-like character, and actively participating in God’s eternal purpose through the body of Christ. It is achieved by daily choosing surrender, serving where placed, and stewarding the unsearchable riches of Christ entrusted to every believer.
Grow in grace and knowledge
Cultivating a deepening dependence on Christ’s grace and a maturing understanding of His truth.
✔ Dedicate daily time to prayer and Scripture to know Christ more intimately
✔ Acknowledge that your identity and ability flow from God’s grace, not your own strength
✔ Actively apply biblical knowledge to your decisions, relationships, and struggles
✔ Embrace humility, recognizing that without Christ you can do nothing of eternal value
✔ Seek to glorify God in both your personal holiness and your public testimony
Serve where Christ has placed you
Faithfully stewarding your gifts and opportunities within the local body for God’s glory.
✔ Faithfully serve in your current church role, no matter how visible or unseen
✔ Follow Christ’s example of sacrificial service, putting others’ needs before your own
✔ Be present and engaged—where Christ is working, there His servant should be also
✔ Use your spiritual gifts to build up others, not to build your own reputation
✔ View your vocation and daily tasks as worship and an arena for ministry
Cultivate Christlike character
Allowing grace to produce the fruit of the Spirit, which qualifies you for greater stewardship.
✔ Let integrity, humility, and love be the foundation of all your interactions
✔ Understand that true spiritual authority is granted to those with proven character
✔ Guard your heart against the “3 Gs” that test grace: impurity, greed, and pride
✔ Welcome accountability through godly friendships that encourage holiness
✔ Repent quickly when you fall, relying on grace to restore and redirect you
Align with God’s eternal purpose
Participating in making known the manifold wisdom of God through the Church.
✔ See your local church as God’s chosen instrument to display His wisdom to the world
✔ Engage wholeheartedly in worship—it is spiritual warfare and a declaration of God’s worth
✔ Support and submit to godly leadership as they steward the mystery of the Gospel
✔ Be a faithful witness to Christ’s unsearchable riches in both word and deed
✔ Pray for and contribute to the unity and mission of your church family
Offer your best in worship and service
Honoring God with excellence, not with the leftovers of your life.
✔ Give God your first and best—your time, resources, talents, and affections
✔ Reject half-hearted, routine, or polluted service as dishonoring to a holy God
✔ Serve with the reverence due to the King of kings, not merely to fulfill an obligation
✔ Regularly evaluate: are you bringing God what you would proudly present to an earthly authority?
✔ Let your service be an act of genuine love, not a performance for human approval
Embrace bold access and expectant faith
Approaching God with confidence and believing He can do far more than you ask or think.
✔ Exercise your bold access to the Father through faith in Jesus, especially in prayer
✔ Believe that God’s power at work within you can accomplish supernatural results
✔ Step out in faith where God calls, trusting His ability over your perceived inadequacy
✔ Pray big, God-glorifying prayers that align with His eternal purpose for the Church
✔ Give God glory in advance for what He will do in and through your submitted life
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