Deepening Our Relationships with One Another and with God

The Congregation at Duke Chapel

Process and Participants

• Seven members of Discernment Team
• Review of Strategic Plans
• Retreats, Discussions, Focus Groups
• Input from approximately 125 individuals

Findings

1. General Satisfaction
2. Affirmation of Current Ministries
3. A Desire to Deepen
4. Structures for Ministry

Going Deeper

• Deeper Relationship with God
• Deeper Relationships with each other within the Congregation
• Deeper Relationships with those outside our Congregation
• More profound experience of the Christian life

Ephesians 4:11-16

¹¹ The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, ¹² to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, ¹³ until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. ¹⁴ We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. ¹⁵ But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up in love.

Why This Fits

• Joined the Congregation
• Danger of Spiritual Entertainment
• Accountability
• Call of Christ

What Do We Need?

• Entry Points
• Ways to Connect
• Shared Leadership

How Do We Get There?

Idea Chart

• Under the new ideas:
• Circle one or two items in each quadrant to affirm them
• Cross out one item in each quadrant to indicate it is not a priority for you
• Pass the sheets in to Nelson