As we experience the grace and goodness of the gospel, we naturally want to share it with others.
How can we share the love and life of Christ with our neighbors in an authentic and winsome way?
In this episode, Ted Ryskoski talks with Denise Ward and Tanner Smith about the book, B.L.E.S.S.: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World, by Dave and Jon Fergeson.
At Clear Creek Community Church we talk often about having a Top 5, which is simply a list of five people we are praying would come to faith in Jesus. We like to use the BLESS acronym as we think about how to intentionally engage our Top 5. BLESS stands for Begin with prayer, Listen, Eat, Serve, and Story.
But what are some specific and creative ways to BLESS your Top 5?
It doesn’t have to be complicated. Here are 10 ideas to BLESS the people on your Top 5:
God has put people in your life for a reason and sharing your faith with them doesn’t need to be intimidating. It can start as simple as showing someone the love of Christ and looking for opportunities to share with them the hope of the Gospel.
Good relationships often start with a lot of listening.
It’s hard to know someone if the only thing we’re focused on is being known.
And so whether it’s a romantic relationship, a business partnership, or just a casual friendship, we build relational equity by taking the time to know the person sitting across from us.
We take the time to listen.
When it comes to relationships with people we’re praying would come to know Jesus, truly hearing and understanding what they’re saying and feeling may be the kindest and most loving gift we can give.
In order to BLESS our neighbors, friends, or coworkers, we need to listen with intention.
We need to listen to understand their hearts, their fears, their dreams, their disappointments, their hopes, and their longings.
And fundamentally, we need to listen with the simple goal of getting to know them better.
But not everyone is a confident and charismatic conversationalist. So, if you need some help knowing where to begin, here are some conversation starters…
God is at work all over the world and he invites us to join with him in his mission.
Over the next 5 years, our hope is to see 1,000 people from Clear Creek set foot on foreign soil in the name of Jesus.
In this episode, guest host Ted Ryskoski, sits down with Karl Garcia, Greg Poore, and Richard Sarpong to discuss our church’s heart for global missions, church planting, and their recent trip to Africa.
What does it look like to plant churches beyond the 4B area and to the ends of the earth?
On this episode, Ted Ryskoski sits down with Chad Clarkson and Karl Garcia to answer this question and more!
How can our generosity make a real impact in our communities?
How do we step into the mess, right where we are, with the light of the gospel?
In this episode, Rachel Chester sits down with Ryan Thomas, CCCC Go Director, and Shari McCormack, CCCC Go Associate, to discuss how to serve our local community as the hands and feet of Jesus.
As we end 2022, what are you celebrating?
How have you seen God move in your life, your family, and as a church?
On this special “Year In Review” episode, Aaron Lutz sat down with Ryan Lehtinen and Kyle Mikulan to look back on the year that was and look forward to a new year personally and as a church family.
We know we should be generous, we want to be generous, but how can we actually become a generous people?
In this episode, Rachel talks with Patrick Johnson, the founder of Generous Church, and Mark Carden, Clear Creek’s Executive Pastor, about practical ways to cultivate generosity in our hearts, our family, and churches so that we can be on mission as the body of Christ.
Ross and Alana Sidman have been small group Navigators at Clear Creek for years, living on mission, and inviting others to church all while walking their dog.
Jesus Christ is the hope of the world and we believe the local church is God’s redemptive agent that he will use in the world for people to come to know him.