We are baptizing this Sunday! That always gets me excited. Baptism is the public display of the new birth we experience in Christ when we place our trust in him. It is also the entry point into the church. At baptism, we public confess Christ, and we public join the Church--the Body of Christ. Here are a couple videos from the Gospel Coalition about baptism:
Discipleship Strategy
Discipleship Strategy
We have an incarnational approach to reaching our community and that spills over into our understanding of discipleship. In other words, we don't believe good programs make good disciples. Christ-followers make disciples. Christian fellowship is the catalyst for disciple-making. So, our goal is to connect believers to one another through community. Each member of our church needs to be in fellowship with other members who can encourage them and help them grow in Christ. Our hope is that every member of Church @ The Square would be part of a community group. These community groups exist to connect people together.
Disciple-making is our goal. Put simply, disciple-making is one believer helping another one grow. All of us are on a journey. And we are at different points on that journey. Imagine being a part of a church that didn't have a cookie-cutter program for turning you into a certain type of Christian, but one that uniquely and specifically helped you grow no matter what your journey up to this point looked like. No two Christians are the same. No two journeys follow the same steps.