Grace Sagola Church

Our God is an unshakeable refuge.  Too often we are presented with other options for safety and security in this life, but everything will fail eventually - except for God.  We ought right now find in Him our treasure and glory. 

The Great Commission from our Lord offers the church the necessary means of making disciples.  However, we as followers of Jesus are still deficient in transforming the hearts of lost.  We requires supernatural power that can only be provided by God.

Throughout the spread of the church, beginning in Jerusalem, there have always been both short term and long term missionaries.  Both of these roles help serve the purpose of planting new churches, and strengthening existing ones. 

Jesus gave his followers two essential components for making disciples.  The New Testament writers would often address their readers by citing the first component of right thinking or doctrine, to be immediately followed by the practical implications of teaching disciples how to live Godly lives. 

The task of making disciples has been outlined by Jesus.  His clear and foundational commission does not require amendments or additions, rather making disciples is a matter of obedience for the church's commitments to orthodoxy and orthopraxy. 

The work of missions hasn't ever been easy.  From the beginning, the call to go to all peoples would require a complete trust in Jesus' authority and a yielding to His call to even go outside of our comfort zones. 

Making disciples is the purpose of the church, and it goes far beyond the simple pronouncement of the gospel.  It requires the multifaceted outworking of the Spirit through the whole of Christ's body (the church) to shape for God those existing followers who will grow up to help establish more new followers in the faith. 

Jesus' commission to go make disciples is the defining call of the Christian.  However, a misunderstanding of this command will leave us missing the mark of God's design, for He desires not only to use us in growing His church, but to grow US through the very process. 

God's plans will come to pass.  It is this great truth that allows us to face the unknown with confidence as we learn to rest our faith in His faithfulness. 

Without Jesus, the world around us is going to forever stand in opposition to true worship of God.  But that doesn't mean the world doesn't worship!  The subject of worship is ultimately the question of what governors our hearts? 

The favor of God, as orchestrated through His people, is designed to motivate our utility towards God's will and evidence His rule as His kingdom breaks into our world. 

Sometimes life doesn't go according to plan... at least that's the way it looks to us. One of the greatest comforts that we can find as Christians is to remember that even when it looks like things are going awry, God is still in control. 

One of the most difficult things within Christianity is trusting Jesus when we're so used to living according to the "rules" of our world. When Jesus says "follow me" we know that obedience could lead directly to persecution and rejection.

The source of our service for our communities must be Jesus.  Because God has modeled for us what it looks like to serve the "least of these" - we must learn to follow in His steps.

It's sometimes too easy for us to compartmentalize our faith according to certain societal norms and standards - Jesus always challenges those!  Even though the widow or orphan may go unseen by our would - our Heavenly Father sees them and encourages us to see like He does!

God has commissioned Christians as His hands and feet to serve as His ambassadors-of-reconciliation to the world.  While it's often easier to simply "mind our own business" in this world - Jesus is mobilizing His people to love our neighbors in accordance with our love for God. 

Grace is unique to Christianity, and grace is dependent upon the resurrection of Jesus. God has validated our Savior's life and death as sufficient in the complete victory over sin and death, and He now invites us to live under that fulfillment - to live under grace. 

Sin is devious & infectious and will ultimately lead us to death.  Yet, we are called and equipped by God, through Jesus Christ, to put a stop to the rule of sin in our lives.  Although sin will continue to show up, it ought no longer control us as a master. 

The Spirit of God provides the Christian with both the accountability and power to fight against sin.  Because the death of Christ has freed all those who identify in Him from a slavery to sin, there becomes therefore not only an expectation to battle the enemy of sin but additionally the scriptures also give us God's strategy. 

The heart behind stewardship must be defined by our understanding of who we are serving.  God's ultimate goal in our practice of becoming good stewards is not merely bound up in the benefits that it will bring to us; biblical stewardship is actually fostering a new kind of humanity.  When we manage what God has given us according to the scriptures, we will end up modeling our lives after the chara...

How should a Christian practice generosity? Does the Bible require us to pay God 10 percent?  It is only to the church that God expects us to give?  These questions, and more are addressed in God's Word to help the Christian excel in generosity. 

God has designed his followers to serve as agents of change for His Kingdom.  This is most often challenged at our workplaces. It is the Christian's duty to exchange their employer, such that we begin working for God, even while working at work.