This Is Vision | Pastor Daniel Floyd

Main message: The church's vision is not a pastor's plan but God's mission: to make disciples—help people be saved, pastored, developed, and mobilized—empowered by the Holy Spirit. Practically, Gateway will pursue that mission with the simple framework Know, Grow, Live so people know God personally, grow in faith, and live on mission.

Key points:

• Vision comes from God (not invented by leaders); the Great Commission (Matthew 28) makes disciple‑making the church's core mission and is tied to the promise of Christ's presence.
• The Spirit was given primarily to empower believers to witness and make disciples, not merely for personal feeling; the church should be both word‑and‑spirit driven.
• Discipleship is a multi‑step journey (like learning to walk): people need to be saved, then pastored (freedom from past patterns), then developed (discipline, gifts, calling), then mobilized to serve and witness.
• Fourfold pattern observed in Scripture: bring out (save), free (pastor), redeem/restore (develop), and take as God’s people (mobilize).
• Practical slogan and call: Know (God personally), Grow (in faith—pastored and developed), Live (on mission using spiritual gifts); members were urged to take one next step and many responded to the altar call.

Scriptures mentioned: Matthew 28, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Exodus 6:6, Colossians (Paul’s prayer), Ephesians (Paul’s prayer), Matthew 7, Romans 12:2, Proverbs (where there is no vision), Revelation chapter 9