AN OUTWARD-FOCUSED THOUGHT

From Dave Workman, the new senior pastor at the Vineyard Community Church, Cincinnati OH:

If the critical job of the "Big C Church" is to make disciples, we decided we better define (or redefine) what a disciple is. At Vineyard Community Church, we boiled it down to: a surrendered and transformed person who loves God and others. The "surrender" part is what we do, the "transform" piece is what God does, and the "love God and others"…well, that�s the fruit of an outward-focused life. And as you might guess, having an outward-focus is a key ingredient of our DNA.