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Common Ground

Everyone Everyday Everyway

• Our mission is to be a Christ-centered, multicultural church family in Southeast Fresno, reconciling men and women to God and to each other in our community and in the world.

Butler Church Mission

• To be a congregation that is growing in number and faithfulness through discipleship, stewardship, service, outreach, and caring for our members and community

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Common Ground Mission

22 … I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some. 23 I do everything to spread the Good News and share in its blessings.

1 Corinthians 9:22b - 23

• The Good News of Jesus Christ is our firm foundation.John 3:16–17 16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

The Good News

9 If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. 11 As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.” 12 Jew and Gentile are the same in this respect. They have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who call on him. 13 For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 10:9–13

• Mark 16:15 • 15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.

• Paul said…• “I try to find common ground with everyone…”

Good News for Everyone

19 Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law.

1 Corinthians 9:19–23

• You can’t effectively engage cross-culturally from a position of power & pride.

• The Way of Jesus:• Philippians 2:5-11

Good News in Everyway

22 … I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some. 23 I do everything to spread the Good News and share in its blessings.

1 Corinthians 9:22b - 23

Everyone - Everyway