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CHURCH - ITS GROWING

I am so PUMPED UP about what THE LORD is going to do in and through HIS CHURCH in 2016! In case you haven't heard heres four of the things we will be stepping up and doing in 2016. GRANITE WILL BE... Launching our GREAT LOWELL CAMPUS in February.  Launching our iCampus by EASTER.  Opening up our CHAMPIONS CLUB - Ministry to the special needs and medically fragile community. Planting a NEW CHURCH - Paradox Church  Thats just four of the many things we will see GOD do in and through us this year! I'm glad Christy and I can say "I KNOW"!  We also know that nothing comes easy and its going to take a lot of prayer, work, and sacrifice to do what we are called to do. But at GRANITE we are ALL IN for JESUS and others! Lets keep the main thing the main thing, LOVE JESUS, LOVE OTHERS, COMPLETE OUR MISSION all the while PROTECTING and GUARDING THE VISION. Theres to much at stake! Im so glad we get to do this together.  Im reminded of what PAUL told his pastors

CHURCH - IT'S INTENTIONAL

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GRANITE CHURCH FAMILY - We don't exsist to go through religious motions. We come together for a GREAT PURPOSE and MISSION. Our mission is not to fish in other churches ponds, our misison isn't to swap fish from one aquarium to another, our MISSION SIMPLY is to GLORIFY GOD by the lives we live with a focus on depopulating hell and populating heaven.  Study the BIBLE and there are two things a CHRISTIAN can do here that we cant do on eternity. 1 - SIN, and thats not a good  thing to do, but we can do it here. 2 - BRING PEOPLE TO JESUS - and that my family is a GREAT THING to do and purpose to live for.  GRANITE is a church family that is focused WITHOUT APOLOGY on following the example of JESUS who came to seek and to save the lost. Our mission is not to sit and "be fed", we are on a rescue mission. We ahve been saved on purpose and for a purpose.  The churches responsibility is not "to feed" it is to equip (eph. 4). Don't take that the wrong wa

CHURCH - IT'S PERSONAL

CHURCH - Its not a building iITS A FAMILY. Families are about commitment, truthfulness, growth, they stick together through the good and the bad, the thick and the thin. Their enduring, intentional relational and they believe the best and want the best for each other. Family is about putting the needs of others first despite the personal sacrifice, being faithful to promises made, holding one another accountable, cheering each other along, and dig in because there's too much  at stake.  There's a number of reason I take my church family seriously. See "I KNOW" the stories of the people who sit in the chairs, I know the struggles they face, I know the victories they've expereinced, the pain they bear and the healing they've found.  My church has a name and its not only granite UNITED church, its THE NAME of every child, every teenager, and every adult who calls GRANITE HOME.  So if you wondering why I'm so passionate about the church its really