Worshippers
We are sinners purchased by God, learning to offer our lives back to God through Jesus.
God desires us at Fellowship to see ourselves as His transformed worshippers in our everyday lives just as much as when we gather together corporately. There is no such thing as “sacred” and “secular,” or “church life” and “real life,” in a biblical worldview. There is no part of this world that does not come under the claim of Jesus’ lordship because in the gospel He purchased all of us, not part of us. All of life belongs to God, and true worship is the bringing of all spheres of our life under God—heart, soul, mind, and strength.
Our worship, then, is living out our new gospel identities in our everyday rhythms of life—as we eat, work, play, and rest. The gospel frees us to do ALL to the glory of God (1 Cor 10:31).
Gospel-Centered
For us, the core of who we are and how we live flows out of the gospel, not a set of programs or ministries. The work of the gospel has given us a new identity: worshippers of Jesus, learners of Jesus, missionaries of Jesus, and the family of Jesus. And this gospel increasingly produces it’s character in us: joy, humility, courage and optimism. This gospel identity and character transforms all of life: our eating, working, playing and resting. At first blush, this sounds radically different than what we’re used to when we think of “church”. One way of viewing this is in the diagram below. For us, this is a picture of the kind of people we long to be and reproduce.
worshippers
We are sinners purchased by God, learning to offer our lives back to God through Jesus.
learners
We are students of Jesus, learning to take responsibility for our own development so that we can develop others.
missionaries
We are sinners saved by God’s work for God’s work, learning that we are being sent by Jesus into Jonesboro, ASU, and the nations to bring joy through His good news.
family
We are sinners adopted by God into His family, learning to care for each other as family, and inviting others to experience the blessing of what it is like in God’s family.