Discipleship is Something Churches should do without Thinking

Recently Pastor Joey Bonifacio was featured in Ed Stetzer’s Exchange Videos. Here Pastor Joey describes the importance of creating a discipleship culture in church.

Discipleship is Something You Do Without Thinking – Highlight of The Exchange from Ed Stetzer on Vimeo.

Child Like Faith and Worship

Please pray for Sofie who has spinal muscular atrophy. She has weak muscles and can’t stand. But that didn’t stop her from dancing and worshiping during praise dance in Children’s Church, while sitting on her yaya’s lap.

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How to Walk with God

For the next 6 weeks, our church will be having a Victory group learning experience as we go through the series “How to Walk with God”. I am really excited about this series because it is first and foremost a great topic to discuss whether you grew up in church or not (this also means you can invite your friends to come).

At the same time this is also a perfect topic for people who wants to grow more in their walk with God because it goes straight to the heart of Christian growth and maturity.

The following topics we will discuss in the next 6 weeks are:
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I highly recommend that you set aside the next 6 weeks for this one. For those of you who are looking for a Victory Group – this is an opportunity to be part of one. See you every Wednesday starting tonight 7pm at Victory Center Greenhills, 4th floor VMALL.

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Kindle Deal: John Mac Arthur Bible Commentary

1. The MacArthur Bible Commentary

2. One Perfect Life: The Complete Story of the Lord Jesus

In One Perfect Life, Dr. John MacArthur shares with us the complete story of the Eternal Christ from Genesis to Revelation. Using Matthew as the base text, Dr. MacArthur blends the gospels and other biblical material about Jesus into one continuous story that will help you better understand Scripture and grow stronger in your faith. No other harmony of the Gospels includes such extensive study notes to help you unpack the meaning of each verse.

Features include:

Verse-by-verse explanations from one of the most important pastor-teachers of our time
Every verse connected to Christ from Genesis to Revelation
A harmony of the Gospels that demonstrates the inerrancy of Scripture
New King James translation

3. SYNC: How to Know God’s Will for your Life is free

The Youth Matters

We concluded our Victory Weekend and had 50+ high school and college students participate and water baptized. I am excited for the future of our church in Victory Greenhills. We have been praying for years that God would open the campus for us and this year has really been a breakthrough year for us. And to see young people disciple their friends is amazing. God is good!543697_10151463038218863_1039236648_n

Here are some pictures from our last Victory Weekend

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Young men and women getting baptized in the Holy Spirit. Apart from the Holy Spirit, we cannot make disciples. Joash, our campus director leading, praying for the men.

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Hungry for more of Jesus!!

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Simple Church and other Books to Help you Pastor the Church

1. Simple Church by Thom Rainer for only $0.99

The simple revolution is here. From the design of Apple products to Google’s uncluttered homepage, simple ideas are changing the world.

Now in paperback, multi-awarded #1 national bestseller Simple Church guides Christians back to the simple gospel-sharing methods of Jesus. No bells or whistles required. With insights based on case studies of 400 American churches, Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger prove the disciple-making process is often too complex. Simple churches thrive by taking four ideas to heart:

Clarity. Movement. Alignment. Focus.

Simple Church examines each idea, clearly showing why it is time to simplify. This updated trade paper edition includes a new chapter with further insights the authors have gained through hundreds of conversations with church leaders since this landmark book’s original release.

2. Deep & Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend by Andy Stanley

3. Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page by Larry Osborne

Serving as a church leader can be a tough assignment. Whatever your role, odds are you’ve known your share of the frustration, conflict, and disillusionment that comes with silly turf battles, conflicting vision, and marathon meetings.
No doubt, you’ve asked yourself, ‘How did it get this way?’

With practical and accessible wisdom, Larry Osborne explains how it got this way. He exposes the hidden roadblocks, structures, and goofy thinking that sabotage even the best intentioned teams. Then with time-tested and proven strategies he shows what it takes to get (and keep) a board, staff, and congregation on the same page.

Whatever your situation; from start-up phase, to mid-sized, to megachurch, Osborne has been there. As the pastor of North Coast Church he’s walked his board, staff, and congregation through the process. Now with warm encouragement and penetrating insights he shares his secrets to building and maintaining a healthy and unified ministry team that sticks together for the long haul.

4. Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City by Tim Keller

Today many pastors are struggling to adapt to a post-Christian culture without abandoning orthodox theology. How do we communicate the concepts of grace and substitutionary atonement in our globalized culture and context?
In Center Church, Timothy Keller offers challenging insights and provocative questions based on over twenty years of ministry in New York City. This book outlines a theological vision for ministry – applying classic doctrines to our time and place – organized around three core commitments: * Gospel-centered: The gospel of grace in Jesus Christ changes everything, from our hearts to our community to the world. It completely reshapes the content, tone and strategy of all that we do.

5. Preaching and Preachers by Martyn Lloyd Jones

Some may object to my dogmatic assertions; but I do not apologize for them. Every preacher should believe strongly in his own method; and if I cannot persuade all of the rightness of mine, I can at least stimulate them to think and to consider other possibilities. I can say quite honestly that I would not cross the road to listen to myself preaching, and the preachers whom I have enjoyed most have been very different indeed in their method and style. But my business is not to describe them but to state what I believe to be right, however imperfectly I have put my own precepts into practice. I can only hope that the result will be of some help, and especially to young preachers called to this greatest of all tasks, and especially in these sad and evil times. With many others I pray that ‘The Lord of the harvest may thrust forth’ many mighty preachers to proclaim ‘the unsearchable riches of Christ!

Kindle Deal: A Book You’ ll Actually Read

Currently on sale is Mark Driscoll’s A BOOK you’ll actually Read for only $1.99

1. On the New Testament (A Book You Will Actually Read)

Packed with big truth, this little book on the New Testament can be read in roughly one hour, making it a book you’ll actually read. Mark Driscoll, one of America’s most influential pastors, answers the nine most common questions about the New Testament—questions about authorship, different translations, trustworthiness of the Scriptures, and more—and gives an overview of the various kinds of New Testament literature. Two appendices include a comprehensive list of further resources and a checklist for reading through the entire New Testament.
On the New Testament is part of a series of inexpensive and accessible books that give clear, biblical answers to difficult theological questions and controversies. Through this series readers will get a solid and simple introduction to the Bible by investing just a little time.

2. On the Old Testament (Book You’ll Actually Read)

Packed with big truth, this little book on the Old Testament can be read in roughly one hour, making it a book you’ll actually read. Mark Driscoll, one of America’s most influential pastors, answers the nine most common questions about the Old Testament—questions about authorship, what Jesus says about the Old Testament, how the Old Testament books were chosen as Scripture, and more—and gives an overview of the various kinds of Old Testament literature. Two appendices include a comprehensive list of further resources and a checklist for reading through the entire Old Testament.

On the Old Testament is part of a series of inexpensive and accessible books that give clear, biblical answers to difficult theological questions and controversies. Through this series readers will get a solid and simple introduction to the Bible by investing just a little time.

3. On Who Is God? (A Book You’ll Actually Read)

Clear, biblical answers to some of the most difficult and controversial questions about God—all in one concise book you’ll actually read! Packed with big truth, this little book can be read on average in one hour. Mark Driscoll, one of America’s most influential pastors, tackles five of the most controversial issues about God over which various religions and philosophies collide: knowledge of God, perspectives of God, the nature of God, the incarnation of God, and worship of God. Two appendices include a list of free online resources for further study on the existence and nature of God and a recommended reading list covering nearly every conceivable issue that leads to a right understanding of God.

On Who Is God? is part of a series of inexpensive and accessible books that give clear, biblical answers to difficult theological questions and controversies. Through this series, readers will get a solid and simple introduction to a major doctrine by spending just a little time.

4. On Church Leadership (Book You’ll Actually Read)

Mark Driscoll knows something about church leadership. He founded Mars Hill Church in Seattle in 1996, and it is now one of the fastest-growing and most prolific church-planting churches in America. Writing out of his personal experience and biblical conviction, Driscoll examines six important areas of church leadership, packing big truth into this little book, making it a book you’ll actually read.
This book also includes some helpful appendices that answer seventeen common practical questions about church leadership, as well as a sample membership covenant and a list of recommended reading for further study on church leadership.

On Church Leadership is part of a series of thorough, inexpensive, and accessible books that give clear, biblical answers to difficult theological questions and controversies. Through this series, readers will get a solid and simple introduction to a major doctrine by investing just a little time and money.

Power Up Night

I am excited for our 1st ever Leader’s Camp for all of our Victory Greenhills leaders. We will be having an exciting time of worship, power sessions with Pastor Jojo Henson and Pastor Nuel Nanez and of course of Power Night where we are having a costume party.

One of the things we celebrate in church is seeing new Victory Group Leaders raised. Jesus said, Let us go and make disciples. I think the commission was straight to the point. The church is called to make disciples – which means this is top priority that every church must have.

Our admin and volunteers came up with a video that kept me laughing for a long time to prepare our leaders for our EMPOWERED 2013 Leader’s Camp. Here it is. Watch it!!!