What would the church looked like if we pursued the good of every church in our city as much as we pursued the good of our own, denomination and network aside? What if we fought for the gospel and for people meeting Jesus more than we fought for our churches own brand? What might happen if we loved our neighbouring church as much as we loved our own? What if we just worked together more? We thought we would find out. For the next 4 weeks we will be mobilising our whole church, budget, marketing channels, effort, prayers and time for the benefit of 4 churches in our city, 1 per week, blessing them in anyway we can. Our social media will look a little different as we do a ’tap takeover', our venue will be empty as we go on a church road trip every Sunday, our prayer meetings full of prayers for our brothers and sisters in other communities and our app filled with their sermon podcast and events.
This isn’t a gimmick to try and get people to join White Horse, like some kind of trojan horse. This is a true and prayerful effort to try and build trust, unity and camaraderie, between churches we love in the city we love. We hope our efforts will bring unbelievers to these 4 churches, grow these 4 churches and bless these 4 churches. We will also try and produce a podcast of the whole experience, interviewing pastors, church members, global thought leaders, and authors about the experience, what we are learning and discuss how a church more unified around Jesus and his agenda as opposed to our own is essential to a revolution shaped revival in our city.
At the end of the four weeks we will host, in partnership with other communities, bands and pastors a prayer night. We will sing some songs, pray some prayers and build some bridges all in Jesus great name. We hope you will join us.
Follow us on social media, our new website as it launches in this period, and our podcast which will be tracking the whole process. This is going to be great! We can’t wait to love and bless the other great churches in this city who are hoping to make disciples from scratch. Lets be a church where words and nice rhetoric go to die, replaced with gospel seeded action and prayers. For His name, lets do whatever it takes together, in Sydney as it is in Heaven.