Some Shifts in our Church Remodel: 

• Less attraction more mission. 
• Less big more small. 
• Less new more old. 
• Less telling more training. 
• Less counting attendance more counting discipleship outcomes.
• Less slick more authentic. 
• Less performance more presence. 
• Less noise more space. 
• Less solo more family. 

Why Change? 

• The Internal Problem: We’ve replaced discipleship with assimilation.
• The external problem: Christianity is in crisis in America. 

Cascading Sending

1. God sends Jesus. (John 3:17) 
2. God and Jesus send the Spirit. (John 15:26-27)
3. God, Jesus, and the Spirit send us (John 20:21-22)
4. God, Jesus, and the Spirit send the Church. (Matthew 28:18-20)

John 17:14-19

• The old slogan: Christians should be IN the world but not OF the world. 

2 Problems: 

• the wrong WORD
• the wrong ORDER
• A better slogan: Christians are not OF the world, but have been sent INTO the world.