INTRO TO CCI, VISION and MISSION - Pastor Laju

Summary

Celebration Church International, led by Apostle Emmanuel Irin, warmly welcomes new members through impactful membership classes designed to instill a sense of purpose, devotion, and responsibility as Christians. The mission is grand, aiming to reach a billion souls and establish a presence in 10,000 cities. Members are called to live radically for Christ, emphasizing the importance of discipleship, evangelism, and celebrating eternal life. This involves knowing, living, and sharing the teachings of Christ passionately. The church is committed to training its congregation to be engaged, knowledgeable, and ready to defend and spread the gospel. Through effective teaching and mission-minded initiatives, the church aims to redeploy its members into various walks of life, all contributing to the overarching vision of celebrating endless life in Christ Jesus.

Highlights

• Introduction to the joyous Celebration Church family. 🎉
• Membership in the church offers growth in faith, purpose, and community. 🤝
• The church’s audacious mission to reach a billion souls. 🌍
• Living for Christ requires a radical commitment and sacrifice. ✝️
• Celebrating life in Christ demands knowing, living, and sharing His teachings. 💬

Key Takeaways

• Celebration Church is on a mission to reach a billion souls in 10,000 cities! 🌍
• Being part of the church means living radically for Christ with a purpose. 🌟
• Training in the church aims to prepare members as teachers and ambassadors of Christ. 📚
• The church emphasizes the joy and privilege of knowing and spreading the gospel. 🎉
• Members are encouraged to live, share, and celebrate endless life in Jesus. ✨

Overview

Welcome to Celebration Church International, a family where your spiritual journey meets a vibrant community of believers. Under the guidance of Apostle Emmanuel Irin, the church invites newcomers to embark on a transformative journey that is believed to be divinely orchestrated. Through a welcoming membership class, new members are introduced to the church's mission and values, emphasizing that living for Christ is a path filled with purpose and joy.

At Celebration Church, members are not just believers but are called to live radically for Christ. This radical lifestyle involves a commitment to knowing Christ deeply and sharing His message with others, reflecting the true essence of discipleship and evangelism. The church’s mission to reach a billion souls and establish in 10,000 cities signifies its dedication to expanding the Kingdom of God.

As members proceed through their membership school, they are equipped with knowledge and tools to be effective advocates for Christ. The church emphasizes the importance of being able to defend and articulate one's faith with love and understanding. By celebrating endless life in Christ Jesus and embracing the calling to serve, members become part of a global mission to bring light and hope to the world through the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:30: Introduction and Welcome The chapter titled 'Introduction and Welcome' presents a warm greeting to new members of Celebration Church. The speaker, on behalf of Pastor Apostle Emanuel Irin, expresses excitement and gratitude for the attendees joining the church family. Emphasizing the notion of divine orchestration, the speaker believes that the members' joining was not by chance but a purposeful act by God. The chapter is part of an introductory membership class, meant to welcome and integrate new members into Celebration Church International.
• 01:30 - 04:00: Purpose and Responsibility of a Christian The chapter discusses the purpose and responsibility of a Christian, emphasizing the importance of progress and joy in faith. At Celebration Church, members are encouraged to experience these aspects through a structured membership program. Over the next three months, new members will be guided to develop a stronger sense of purpose and divine assignment. The program also aims to enhance their devotional life, fostering warmth and fellowship within a loving community.
• 04:00 - 06:00: Living a Christ-Centered Life This chapter emphasizes the importance of living a life centered around Christ. It speaks to experiencing and performing miracles, and having ambition towards selfless causes. The chapter begins with a congratulatory message for joining a divine mission aimed at reaching a billion souls across 10,000 cities, highlighting the transformative nature of this mission. The chapter references 2 Corinthians 5:15, underscoring the church's ultimate purpose.
• 06:00 - 13:00: Vision and Mission of Celebration Church The chapter discusses the central vision and mission of Celebration Church, which revolves around knowing Christ and making Him known. It highlights that as believers, the ultimate purpose is to live not for oneself but for Christ, who died and rose again for humanity. The chapter references a scripture from Mark 8:34-38 to emphasize this purpose and calls on individuals to commit themselves to this mission of spreading the message of Jesus.

INTRO TO CCI, VISION and MISSION - Pastor Laju Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hello and welcome to Celebration Church on behalf of our Le Pastor Apostle Emanuel irin I want to let you know that this family is excited to have you we were so nice you came twice and then you made it Thrice and decided to be a part of Celebration Church by taking this membership class this class is Introduction to Celebration Church International I'm very excited to be teaching you this today we truly believe that our paths Crossing is not a coincidence that God orchestrated you being a part of of this family and we're
• 00:30 - 01:00 very excited to partner with you so that you may experience progress and join the faith and cause others to do the same here at Celebration Church we believe that the next three months of your membership school will Usher you into the following progress and joy the faith a strong sense of purpose a stronger sense of divine assignment a strong and fervent devotional life warmth and fellowship in the loving Community a life of
• 01:00 - 01:30 experiencing Miracles and a life of working miracles as well as ambition for a selfless cause I want to congratulate you on enlisting yourself into this Army where God has sent us to reach a billion souls in 10,000 cities this experience and this family will change your life so congratulations I'm going to start by reading 2 Corinthians 5:1 15 which talks about our ultimate purpose as a church
• 01:30 - 02:00 and indeed our purpose as human beings it says that and that he died for all that's Christ that those of us who live should no longer live for ourselves but for he who died for us or for them and rose again the ultimate purpose of our lives and indeed the purpose of the church is to know Christ and to make him known in Mark 8: 34- 38 please open your Bible so we can read together the Bible says that when Jesus had called people to himself
• 02:00 - 02:30 with his disciples also he said to them whosoever desires to come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me whoever desires to save his life will lose it and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospels will save it for what will he profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul or what will a man give in exchange for his soul for whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him also the son of man will be ashamed when
• 02:30 - 03:00 he comes in the glory of his father with the Holy Angels We Believe concerning you that Christ will have no reason to be ashamed of you because we are training you to be unashamed when it comes to the gospel and to the ministry of the Gospel from the text above you can see that the call to Christianity is more radical than people think you are not a volunteer Jesus said my father walks and therefore I walk so if his father walks
• 03:00 - 03:30 and therefore he walks and we call ourselves his disciples we call ourselves members of the body of Christ it means that this call is more radical than you think we've not just merely been called to believe in Jesus and trusting to give us good lives no it is only the person who lives for Christ that truly believes that Christ died for him or her we've been called to lose our lives for Christ's sake
• 03:30 - 04:00 to lose our lives for the sake of the Gospel what does this mean it means that we must devote Our lives our entire lives to learning enough about what Jesus did so that we can share it with the world this is our real purpose for being alive what are some points to note as we continue in this membership school training the first is that following Christ even though it's a beautiful honor is a tremendous responsibility I'll take that again
• 04:00 - 04:30 the first thing to note is that following Christ is a tremendous responsibility Jesus liking did to carry in a cross and when you talk about a cross I'm not referring to the little pendant you wear on your neck you don't even know whether it's on or off remember the way jesus carried his own cross it was obvious it was heavy and in many ways it was shameful but it wasn't something that he carried mindlessly if you carrying a cross you will know
• 04:30 - 05:00 in Matthew 11:30 he refers to it as carrying a burden so even though in Christ we are exchanging the burdens of the world and the burs of our sin and the burds of our past life we are exchanging it for his own burden so now we have a more meaningful burden following Christ will cost you everything you have but guess what it's more than worth it we literally give our
• 05:00 - 05:30 lives to Christ when we become born again that means that your life no longer belongs to you and that is something that as a Believer and as a member of Celebration Church you must know you're a living dead your life belongs to Christ the second point to note is that the pleasures in Christ by far outweigh the sacrifices of following him I'll take that again the pleasures in Christ by far outter the sacrifices of following him Paul calls it the riches of the itance and the Saints in
• 05:30 - 06:00 Ephesians 11:17 the Bible tells us that we are HS of God and Joint HS with Christ you may or may not have a family inheritance in this Earthly life but when it comes to the kingdom Christ is your inheritance the Bible also tells us how privileged and loved we are by the father to be called his sons 1 John 3:1 Matthew 13:45 to 46 know that there's going to be a test at the end of this
• 06:00 - 06:30 entire membership school so these are verses that you should know not just for the test that's written but even for the test of Life what is number three thing to note that the pleasures at the coming of Christ are so great that our sacrifices for him on Earth cannot be compared to them the pleasures of the coming of Christ are so great that the sacrifices for him on Earth cannot be compared to them see Romans 8 verse 18 so a true true member of Celebration
• 06:30 - 07:00 Church is one who devotes his or her life to celebrating endless life in Christ Jesus we love it when you share our logo we love it when you use the hashtag we love it when you identify with the pastors but this is the true identity of a celebration church member that you devote your life to celebrating endless life in Christ Jesus what does celebrating in life in Christ Jesus demand it demands that number one you know it you cannot celebrate what you do
• 07:00 - 07:30 not know so you must know what life in Christ Jesus is perhaps you're watching this and you're not born again somehow you stumbled into church and stumbled into membership class you must stumble into the faith you must stumble in end this life you must believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins believe it in your heart confess to your mouth and when you do who soever beli not perish but have eternal life so you must know what endless life is every member of Celebration Church is required to know
• 07:30 - 08:00 and understand the lordship of Jesus Christ he's not just a friend he wasn't just a prophet he is our Lord and our King the second thing you must do is to live it one of the dictionary meanings of the word celebrate is to commemorate or to observe Our Lives should be a commemoration of the death and resurrection of Christ it is not enough to know that Jesus is Lord you must live like it he his words and his purpose
• 08:00 - 08:30 must guide your entire life and the third thing to note when celebrating endless life in Christ Jesus is that you tell it have you ever been in a situation where you got a really good deal and you could not just wait to tell your friend I bought it for cheap here and when it arrived the quality was so good or perhaps you ate at a very nice restaurant you had one spoon and the next thing you did after tasting that spoon was to bring out your phone and put it in your stories on your WhatsApp St
• 08:30 - 09:00 how much more eternal life so if indeed you've experienced endless life in Christ Jesus and you continue to experience it then you must tell it you must celebrate and publicly announce it we might have different occupations but our major preoccupation is evangelism and not just with our lives but in our words because the Bible tells us to teach the gospel to All Nations and teaching requires words I know you might say well I just focus on being an
• 09:00 - 09:30 example being an example enough alone is not enough so you must preach the gospel and be an example as well you must tell it to celebrate unless life also means to tell it to as many people as you can and we have been commanded to do so up next I'm going to talk to you about the vision and mission of Celebration Church International what is the vision of Celebration Church we envision all men and women celebrating endless life in Christ Jesus we envision every single
• 09:30 - 10:00 human being celebrating endless life in Christ Jesus that is a big Vision but we believe that it is possible what is the mission of Celebration Church International in other words how do we hope pray and work towards achieving this Vision the mission of Celebration Church International is to enlist disciple and redeploy your people in Christ for
• 10:00 - 10:30 Christ with joy this one will most likely come out to your test I'm in fact I'm going to ass sure it does what is the mission of Celebration Church to enlist disciple and redeploy people in Christ for Christ with joy we have spelled out our mission in four simple ways the first is to Be an Effective Evangelical Ministry en listing people in Christ to Be an Effective Evangelical Ministry
• 10:30 - 11:00 enlisting people in Christ the reason why you are here is because by the grace of God we enlisted you for some of you it was angels that enlisted you you saw Apostle in your dream what this also means is that in our words in our actions and in our own daily lives we must also go about enlisting people in Christ we must also go about enlisting people in Christ we ambassadors so God is besing the world through us and the message be reconciled to God the second
• 11:00 - 11:30 is to Be an Effective Teaching Ministry raising people in Christ it doesn't matter what your background is at the core you've been called to be a teacher of the gospel and here in Celebration Church we will teach you so you can teach others so what you're learning on Sundays on Wednesdays when you listen to messages when you listen to 30 devotion when you study books when you listen to message by Apostle what you are simply learning
• 11:30 - 12:00 is your call to be a teacher of the gospel because pastors can do it alone so we are an effective Teaching Ministry raising people in Christ and that means that you must be open excited and happy about long teaching meetings just like in the early church you've been called to be a teacher and here at Celebration J Will train you to be a teacher and the door of the word the third point to note when talking about the mission of Celebration Church is that we've been been called to Be an Effective
• 12:00 - 12:30 mission-minded Ministry redeploying people for Christ think about this as an army base you are enlisted you are trained and then you are redeployed so you must always be open to redeployment sometimes even in the midst of your training you must understand that your office your home your family your school your neighborhood is your ground of redeployment and treat it as such for the sake of the Gospel
• 12:30 - 13:00 the fourth point is to emphasize the surpassing Delight in Christ Above All Things We Are Celebration Church for a reason and what do we celebrate the finished work of Christ so it is something that is very obvious and palpable whenever you spend time around members of Celebration Church there's so much we have to be thankful for as individuals a loving family Good Health Resources a beautiful Church but when it comes down to it the
• 13:00 - 13:30 greatest source of our joy is what Christ did for us on the cross and what he continues to do in Us by his spirit so we celebrate endless life in Christ Jesus and that's why we say in Christ for Christ we Joy what does it mean to eleas I'm going to talk about that in detail celebration church's first and Evangelical Ministry we have been commanded by our Lord Jesus Christ to go into all the world and preach the gospel in fact the Apostle says that the vision
• 13:30 - 14:00 of every Church Must Be Matthew 28:19 because that is the true purpose of the church this is why we intentionally create Avenues to reach the lost with the message of the Gospel we can never get over the joy of seeing one sinner come to Christ in fact we're Celebration Church because we are excited about celebrating the salvation of sinners when they come to the Lord Jesus so wi
• 14:00 - 14:30 is the passion and the purpose at Celebration Church next is discipleship Celebration Church is passionate about training Believers by training we mean discipleship helping Believers young and old alike grow spiritually walk does it end when people get born again it begins in fact the Apostle says that after salvation the next most important thing is knowledge
• 14:30 - 15:00 Celebration Church has an intentionally crafted spiritual growth curriculum that will help young believers get grounded in the knowledge of the word and in the spirit of God every member of Celebration Church is expected and trained to know why we believe what we believe defend what we believe and share what we believe you must know why we believe what we believe you must be able to defend why
• 15:00 - 15:30 you believe that not just I believe Jesus is Lord if you don't believe go Transformer no you must be able to defend it from the word you must be always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks you of the hope that you have in Jesus and if nobody even ask you ask them and give them the answer but of course with love with understanding and with patience so you must know defend and share what you believe getting involved in church activities is welcome expected
• 15:30 - 16:00 and appreciated but that is not all we've been called to do being committed in church alone is not enough this is why Celebration Church creates even more avenues for the deployment of trained members into the work of the ministry like I said the place you stay the family you're in the job you're at of the people on your social media see them as your Outreach
• 16:00 - 16:30 ground there might be times where the church calls upon you to do something officially but in the meantime there must be a sense of ownership that reaching a billion souls in 10,000 cities isn't something one person was called to do it is something that we have all been called to do and we will see even more results when you are a supplying joints and you bring your best to the table as enabled by the spirit of God once again you are in the best place
• 16:30 - 17:00 you can be every Sunday morning this is the church that the Lord is coming for on the last day and I'm honored to be a part of this work and I know that you are too uh our Apostle myself and all the pastors are looking forward to serving with you to reach a billion souls in 10,000 cities and to take the world for Jesus on the kingdom of this world become the kingdom of our God and of his Christ and we are very delighted that you are a part of that to enjoy the rest
• 17:00 - 17:30 of the training and give it the attention that it deserves choose to be a Workman who will not be ashamed and if you give this train the attention that it deserves you will be that kind of workman who is right who is able to rightly divide the word of Truth and be a blessing to the body of Christ and the World At Large for the sake of his name so stay tuned for your next class and until then keep experiencing progress and joying the faith and living in Christ for Christ with joy