About Us
IDENTITIES
The Great Commandment
LOVE GOD
• Communicate the Story of God
• Understanding and relating the story of God through scripture, life, and
experience.
• Prayerfully Dependence
• Being Prayerfully Dependant in every direction of our lives.
• Proper Concept of who Christ was, is and is to come
LOVE OTHERS
• Create Authentic Loving Environment
• Consistent Contact by/from Believers to their culture, and peers.
• Image of Group to be relevant to Culture and to the story of God’s people
RHYTHMS
BUILD the Disciple
Community…
Is when the oneness offered through Jesus replaces the aloneness sin produces.
• Jn. 1:39
• Jn. 2:12
• Jn. 4:40
Expressing to God a profound sense of wonder, gratefulness and trust.
ADORATION…
Is when God is so regarded and worshipped that he is glorified by our thoughts
and expressions.
• Jn. 4:23-24
• Lk. 3:21
• Jn. 2:11
Receiving from God His direction and guidance for living and loving.
NURTURE…
Is when we engage the living word of God allowing the Spirit to carve into our
hearts to yield an abundant life.
Mt. 4:17
Lk. 4:16-31
Expressing God’s love through personal contact and support to those outside of
our Ministry
SERVING…
Is when others matter so much that we adjust our lifestyle by expressing care
and seeking to meet their needs.
• Jn. 4:46-54
• Jn. 2:1-11
• Mt. 11:4-5
Area Discipleship Groups
Manifestations of Community in the D-Group:
1. Communication and understanding of the Story of God and of man
(story form)
2. Listening to God and people.
3. Lead by the Spirit
4. Celebrating life and God.
5. To bless people intentionally.
- Exercising hospitality.
- Eating with and serving people.
6. Recreate together. Restoring our mind, soul, body, spirit
Descriptions of D-Groups
SILVER: Geographically based, public place, coffee shop, restaurant, etc. Bible
study, mixed gender, open group, minister/missionary lead.
RED: Same gender, Bible study, accountability, higher commitment, closed
group, minister/missionary lead.
BLACK: Work and/or School based, Bible study, inter-gender, open group
minister/missionary lead.
D-Family: Geographically based in the home, Inter-gendered, open to lost,
disciples, ministers & missionaries, food, Bible study, prayer and accountability.
WIN the Lost
Cultivating… credible friendships that allow UNCOMPRIMISED following of Christ
within the Pierce County Culture.
John 1:39
Planting… truth through conversations and questions to express God’s full story
of grace.
John 2:1-11
Reaping… a life changing harvest by extending Christ’s challenge to repent,
believe, and be baptized.
John 13:12-17
Three Models for Delivering Missional Evangelism
One-on-One
A friend who builds relationships in everyday circumstances.
Key ingredients to One-on-One Strategies
1. Bridge Building
2. Personal Experience
3. Questions
4. Truth
Small Group (Discipleship Groups)
People who have come together to advance the gospel through extending
friendships that model Christlikeness.
Key ingredients of D-Group Evangelism:
1. Common Ground
2. Conversation
Whole Group Events & Weekly Gathering Service
An organized group who strategizes events and activities to introduce their lost
friends to Christ-who he is and what he does.
Key ingredients for Whole Group Winning events:
1. Attractional
2. Activity
3. Presentation
4. Interaction
EQUIP the Minister
Jesus' work wasn't only the cross. He devoted His ministry life to calling,
developing, training, and sending a group of men who would be the leaders of His
Church. He also prepared hundreds of others for the explosive growth that took
place at Pentecost (Acts 2:41). So we are committed to equip people for
ministry, to do it as a team, and to continually send more developed, trained, and
commissioned ministers into the world.
Every believer needs “front row attention”- if we fail to equip others who can
“know a row,” our ministries will remain an audience and the potential for
multiplication will be lost.
How does Jesus train whose with the heart to be equipped?
What does a candidate for ministry look like?
• Taken from the model of Christ.
AVAILABLE … Those who make themselves available for Ministry.
Luke 5:1-3
FAITHFUL … Those who are faithful to His Expectations for them.
Luke 5:4-5
TEACHABLE … Those who are teachable regarding their Actions & Activities.
Luke 5:6-10a
RESPONSIVE … Those who are responsive to His leadership
Luke 5:10b-11
Jesus’ example calls ministry to be more than a platform for ministering to
people, to being a people ministry. He equips the RESPONSIVE through one or
more of the following means:
1. Equipping on the Run
a. Practically every activity was designed to lead His disciples to a conviction
about His person. Jesus used everyday events and activities to invest His life
intentionally in key people.
2. Equipping Getaways
3. Equipping projects
a. A pattern emerges in which Jesus withdraws by Himself for renewal, rest
and direction from His father. At other times Jesus included His disciples in a
time away for renewal, rest and training.
4. Equipping a consistent team
MULTIPLY Missionaries
When people think of missionaries, they usually picture travelers preaching the
gospel in distant, foreign lands. While sending missionaries abroad is important, it’
s also important to send people across the street. GC3 desires to
cultivate localized Evangelists & missionaries who will first reach their surrounding
cultures and then branch out to the world.
The GC3 embodies the Missional heart of God’s Great Commission
(Matt. 28:19), helping qualified leaders called by God to plant new D-Groups,
churches and replant declining churches in our nation and around
the world.
The GC3 obeys the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19) by
starting churches: an effective, organic, and practical means of evangelism. With
training programs and various resources,
What does a candidate for missions look like?
• VISIONaries these ministers understand and communicate clearly and
concisely theology, philosophy of ministry, Jesus’ strategy of the Church.
• COACHing ministers are able to teach, preach and train existing disciples,
ministers and missionaries effectively.
• REPRODUCING, able to mentor and lead others through the rhythms,
identities, and ethos of the story of God and mankind.
Missionaries are sent by God (like Jesus) into our culture to restore all things to
a right relationship with God. We live actively as missionaries for the sake of
others and God’s glory.
ETHOS
The description of a discipled person in our ministry.
•Believer:
To learn more about the nature and story of God.
To become knowledgeable in the history and heritage of the Kingdom of God.
To become better trained and equipped to serve in the Kingdom of God.
Growing stronger in Faith by practicing spiritual habits.
•Confessor
Living a lifestyle of communication to the world that Jesus Christ is the Risen
Lord and Son of God.
Communicating to God the daily battle of life and relying on his intervention in
matters of struggles.
Partnering with others to share in sin, abuse, addictions, temptations, conflict
management, etc.
•Baptizer
To live out a lifestyle that is to pick up our cross daily and dying with
him.
Being united with Christ in Baptism (Romans 6)
Going into all the world and making disciples, and baptizing them in the name
of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
•Repenter
Daily making the decision to not sin.
Finding tools and disciplines that will allow individual to stay away from self
destructive behavior.
Leaving the old habits that were part of the world.
•Inspirer
Allowing the Holy spirit to lead and guide in love.
To motivate and commission the lost, other disciples, ministers and
missionaries to live and walk closer to the all mighty God.
Spurring others onto good works so that God maybe glorified.
•Prayer
Committing to a constant prayer life.
Bringing all requests and concerns before the creator.
Becoming better equipped in ways and means of meditation with God.
Encouraging others.
Finding the lost and sharing the good news with them.
Encourage them to Believe in Christ, Confess Him as the Lord, Repent of
Sin, Become united with Him on the Cross having their sins washed away,
being filled with the Holy spirit, because of a clear conscience before God.
To take fellow disciples and training them in spending time with God,
expecting them to be accountable to God & the body, pushing to memorize
the scripture of God, to be involved with the Church, to give back sacrificially
to God, time and income, to study scriptures diligently so that they might
know and understand God fully, and to fast regularly so that God might help
us to depend on him rather than the vices of this world.
To take other ministers and help them to discover their gifts and talents to
use for the Kingdom.
•Server
Eagerly serving others with a W3 mindset:
Whatever–Whenever–Wherever.
Submitting to leadership with joyful hearts.
To become the least in our community.
So that God might use the disciple as his manifestation on earth.
To model to others that we love them.
The Great Commandment
LOVE GOD
• Communicate the Story of God
• Understanding and relating the story of God through scripture, life, and
experience.
• Prayerfully Dependence
• Being Prayerfully Dependant in every direction of our lives.
• Proper Concept of who Christ was, is and is to come
LOVE OTHERS
• Create Authentic Loving Environment
• Consistent Contact by/from Believers to their culture, and peers.
• Image of Group to be relevant to Culture and to the story of God’s people
RHYTHMS
BUILD the Disciple
Community…
Is when the oneness offered through Jesus replaces the aloneness sin produces.
• Jn. 1:39
• Jn. 2:12
• Jn. 4:40
Expressing to God a profound sense of wonder, gratefulness and trust.
ADORATION…
Is when God is so regarded and worshipped that he is glorified by our thoughts
and expressions.
• Jn. 4:23-24
• Lk. 3:21
• Jn. 2:11
Receiving from God His direction and guidance for living and loving.
NURTURE…
Is when we engage the living word of God allowing the Spirit to carve into our
hearts to yield an abundant life.
Mt. 4:17
Lk. 4:16-31
Expressing God’s love through personal contact and support to those outside of
our Ministry
SERVING…
Is when others matter so much that we adjust our lifestyle by expressing care
and seeking to meet their needs.
• Jn. 4:46-54
• Jn. 2:1-11
• Mt. 11:4-5
Area Discipleship Groups
Manifestations of Community in the D-Group:
1. Communication and understanding of the Story of God and of man
(story form)
2. Listening to God and people.
3. Lead by the Spirit
4. Celebrating life and God.
5. To bless people intentionally.
- Exercising hospitality.
- Eating with and serving people.
6. Recreate together. Restoring our mind, soul, body, spirit
Descriptions of D-Groups
SILVER: Geographically based, public place, coffee shop, restaurant, etc. Bible
study, mixed gender, open group, minister/missionary lead.
RED: Same gender, Bible study, accountability, higher commitment, closed
group, minister/missionary lead.
BLACK: Work and/or School based, Bible study, inter-gender, open group
minister/missionary lead.
D-Family: Geographically based in the home, Inter-gendered, open to lost,
disciples, ministers & missionaries, food, Bible study, prayer and accountability.
WIN the Lost
Cultivating… credible friendships that allow UNCOMPRIMISED following of Christ
within the Pierce County Culture.
John 1:39
Planting… truth through conversations and questions to express God’s full story
of grace.
John 2:1-11
Reaping… a life changing harvest by extending Christ’s challenge to repent,
believe, and be baptized.
John 13:12-17
Three Models for Delivering Missional Evangelism
One-on-One
A friend who builds relationships in everyday circumstances.
Key ingredients to One-on-One Strategies
1. Bridge Building
2. Personal Experience
3. Questions
4. Truth
Small Group (Discipleship Groups)
People who have come together to advance the gospel through extending
friendships that model Christlikeness.
Key ingredients of D-Group Evangelism:
1. Common Ground
2. Conversation
Whole Group Events & Weekly Gathering Service
An organized group who strategizes events and activities to introduce their lost
friends to Christ-who he is and what he does.
Key ingredients for Whole Group Winning events:
1. Attractional
2. Activity
3. Presentation
4. Interaction
EQUIP the Minister
Jesus' work wasn't only the cross. He devoted His ministry life to calling,
developing, training, and sending a group of men who would be the leaders of His
Church. He also prepared hundreds of others for the explosive growth that took
place at Pentecost (Acts 2:41). So we are committed to equip people for
ministry, to do it as a team, and to continually send more developed, trained, and
commissioned ministers into the world.
Every believer needs “front row attention”- if we fail to equip others who can
“know a row,” our ministries will remain an audience and the potential for
multiplication will be lost.
How does Jesus train whose with the heart to be equipped?
What does a candidate for ministry look like?
• Taken from the model of Christ.
AVAILABLE … Those who make themselves available for Ministry.
Luke 5:1-3
FAITHFUL … Those who are faithful to His Expectations for them.
Luke 5:4-5
TEACHABLE … Those who are teachable regarding their Actions & Activities.
Luke 5:6-10a
RESPONSIVE … Those who are responsive to His leadership
Luke 5:10b-11
Jesus’ example calls ministry to be more than a platform for ministering to
people, to being a people ministry. He equips the RESPONSIVE through one or
more of the following means:
1. Equipping on the Run
a. Practically every activity was designed to lead His disciples to a conviction
about His person. Jesus used everyday events and activities to invest His life
intentionally in key people.
2. Equipping Getaways
3. Equipping projects
a. A pattern emerges in which Jesus withdraws by Himself for renewal, rest
and direction from His father. At other times Jesus included His disciples in a
time away for renewal, rest and training.
4. Equipping a consistent team
MULTIPLY Missionaries
When people think of missionaries, they usually picture travelers preaching the
gospel in distant, foreign lands. While sending missionaries abroad is important, it’
s also important to send people across the street. GC3 desires to
cultivate localized Evangelists & missionaries who will first reach their surrounding
cultures and then branch out to the world.
The GC3 embodies the Missional heart of God’s Great Commission
(Matt. 28:19), helping qualified leaders called by God to plant new D-Groups,
churches and replant declining churches in our nation and around
the world.
The GC3 obeys the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19) by
starting churches: an effective, organic, and practical means of evangelism. With
training programs and various resources,
What does a candidate for missions look like?
• VISIONaries these ministers understand and communicate clearly and
concisely theology, philosophy of ministry, Jesus’ strategy of the Church.
• COACHing ministers are able to teach, preach and train existing disciples,
ministers and missionaries effectively.
• REPRODUCING, able to mentor and lead others through the rhythms,
identities, and ethos of the story of God and mankind.
Missionaries are sent by God (like Jesus) into our culture to restore all things to
a right relationship with God. We live actively as missionaries for the sake of
others and God’s glory.
ETHOS
The description of a discipled person in our ministry.
•Believer:
To learn more about the nature and story of God.
To become knowledgeable in the history and heritage of the Kingdom of God.
To become better trained and equipped to serve in the Kingdom of God.
Growing stronger in Faith by practicing spiritual habits.
•Confessor
Living a lifestyle of communication to the world that Jesus Christ is the Risen
Lord and Son of God.
Communicating to God the daily battle of life and relying on his intervention in
matters of struggles.
Partnering with others to share in sin, abuse, addictions, temptations, conflict
management, etc.
•Baptizer
To live out a lifestyle that is to pick up our cross daily and dying with
him.
Being united with Christ in Baptism (Romans 6)
Going into all the world and making disciples, and baptizing them in the name
of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
•Repenter
Daily making the decision to not sin.
Finding tools and disciplines that will allow individual to stay away from self
destructive behavior.
Leaving the old habits that were part of the world.
•Inspirer
Allowing the Holy spirit to lead and guide in love.
To motivate and commission the lost, other disciples, ministers and
missionaries to live and walk closer to the all mighty God.
Spurring others onto good works so that God maybe glorified.
•Prayer
Committing to a constant prayer life.
Bringing all requests and concerns before the creator.
Becoming better equipped in ways and means of meditation with God.
- Discipler
Encouraging others.
Finding the lost and sharing the good news with them.
Encourage them to Believe in Christ, Confess Him as the Lord, Repent of
Sin, Become united with Him on the Cross having their sins washed away,
being filled with the Holy spirit, because of a clear conscience before God.
To take fellow disciples and training them in spending time with God,
expecting them to be accountable to God & the body, pushing to memorize
the scripture of God, to be involved with the Church, to give back sacrificially
to God, time and income, to study scriptures diligently so that they might
know and understand God fully, and to fast regularly so that God might help
us to depend on him rather than the vices of this world.
To take other ministers and help them to discover their gifts and talents to
use for the Kingdom.
•Server
Eagerly serving others with a W3 mindset:
Whatever–Whenever–Wherever.
Submitting to leadership with joyful hearts.
To become the least in our community.
So that God might use the disciple as his manifestation on earth.
To model to others that we love them.
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