What is a Gospel Community?

What is a Gospel Community?

A Gospel Community is a community of people continually encountering God in the gospel and engaging in God's mission in the world, as they enjoy God together.

We believe that God's people are meant to be communal and therefore are to live out the gospel in community.  This has to do with both encountering God regularly and being engaged in mission.  But ultimately, we live this way because we know that it is for our joy.

What is the Gospel?

Why use the term gospel?  Because the church is a people formed by the gospel and sent for the gospel.  So in order to understand who we are and what we do, we must understand the gospel.  This is how we talk about the gospel at Round Lake.

The Gospel is the good news that, for God’s Glory, Jesus died for our sin and was resurrected so we might move from death to life.

What is our mission?

To be witnesses for God’s Glory in the world by continuing the work of Jesus in word and deed through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Gospel Communities have 5 main identities:

1)Worshipers

We worship Jesus as God by living out the other 4 identities.

(John 4, Romans 12:1-2, Hebrews 13:15-16, Revelation 4-5)

2)Family

        We are children of God who live and care for each other as a family should.  

        (John 1:12-13, Galatians 4:4-7, I John 2:28-3:3)

3)Missionaries

We are sent by God to present the Gospel to all people.

(Matt 28:18-20, Acts)

4)Servants

We engage in serving God by serving others.

(Phil 2:1-11, John 13:1-7)

5)Learners

We engage in discipleship by teaching scripture to one another.

(Matt 28:18-20, Eph 4:11-13, II Tim 2:2)