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What to expect

The Growth Track at VOUS Church guides

you to discover your redemptive purpose and
live the life God created for you.

The Growth Track is made up of four steps.

Encounter, Establish, Equip, and Empower.

Pro Tip
Join in at any time!

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week
of the
month
Learn the spiritual journey God has for
each of us—to encounter Jesus.

stepTwo: Establish
2nd
week
of the Explore the ministry of VOUS Church and
month
find out how to connect in our community.

stepThree: Equip

3rd
week Discover your personality and gifts, see
of the how they point to your purpose in life
month and your best fit in ministry.

stepFour: Empower

Empower - Connect to the

4th opportunities at VOUS to live out
week your purpose and use your gifts
of the
month serving others.
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Our prayer
for you
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the
Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you
may know him better. I pray that the eyes of
your heart may be enlightened in order that you
may know the hope to which he has called you,
the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy
people.
Ephesians 1:17-18

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Your spiritual journey,

in four steps:

01
At VOUS Church, our desire is that everyone who walks through
our doors would have an encounter with God.

The same power that transformed you initially

will transform you progressively.

[I pray]…that you may know Him better [personally]

Ephesians 1:17-18

02
After you encounter God there are some fundamentals that
should be established in your life. Salvation happens in a moment.
Becoming like Christ takes a lifetime. And so sanctification is the
necessary, ongoing process of submitting to God’s Word and
Spirit to complete the development of Christ’s character in us.

[I pray]…that the eyes of your heart be enlightened

[focused and clear].
Ephesians 1:17-18

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03
VOUS Church is called to equip God’s people for his work. We
know that the two most important days in your life are the day you
are born and the day you find out why. God gives us tools
to develop and to strengthen the body of Christ.

So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the

evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people
for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.
Ephesians 4:11-12

04
At VOUS Church, we believe each of us is called on purpose,
for a purpose. We are empowered to serve one another.
Saved people, serve people.

God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of
spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.
1 Peter 4:10 NLT

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Encounter
God
Sin breaks our close relationship with God. It causes us to
fear God and try to live our lives outside of His will.

The wages of sin is death, BUT the gift of God is

eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23

But God demonstrates his own love for us in

this: While we were still sinners, Christ died
for us.
Romans 5:8

God is on one side and all people are on the

other side, and Christ Jesus is between them to
bring them together, by giving His life for
all mankind.
1 Timothy 2:5-6 TLB

God has already done His part to restore our relationship

to Him. He took the initiative. Now He waits for each of us
to individually accept what He has done for us.

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How to become a Christian:

01
That God has not been first place in our life,
and ask Him to forgive your sins.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us

our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9

02
That Jesus died to pay for your sins and that He
rose from the dead and is alive today.

If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by
believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is
by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.
Romans 10:9-10 NLT

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name [Jesus]

under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
Acts 4:12

We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that
God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
1 Thessalonians 4:14

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How to become a Christian:

03
God’s free gift of salvation.
Don’t try to earn it.

For it is by grace you are saved, through faith — and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can
boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9

04
Jesus Christ to come into your life
and be the Lord of your life.

To all who received him, he gave the right to become children of

God. All they needed to do was to trust him to save them. All those
who believe this are reborn!—not a physical rebirth resulting from
human passion or plan—but from the will of God.
John 1:12-13 TLB

Listen! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice

and opens the door, I will come in...
Revelation 3:20 HCSB

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Take the
steps
You can take these steps by praying a simple prayer of
commitment to God:

“Dear Jesus, thank you for creating me and

for loving me even when I’ve ignored you and
gone my own way. I realize I need you in my
life, and I’m sorry for my sins. I ask you
to forgive me. Thank you for dying on the
cross for me. As much as I know how, I want
to follow you from now on. Please come into
my life and make me a new person inside. I
accept your free gift of salvation. Please help
me to grow now as a Christian.”

Everyone who calls on

the name of the Lord
will be saved.
Romans 10:13

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How to have
a genuine
relationship
with God
Once you encounter Jesus the call is to follow and
be in relationship with him. Yet what does it mean to
follow Jesus? Following Jesus means to learn his ways,
his values, his habits, his principles. Jesus gives us the
invitation “Come and follow me.” Jesus is known to be the
most thought-provoking teacher to walk the Earth. The
more we get to know him, the more we get to know who
we are called to be.

Therefore everyone who hears these words of

mine and puts them into practice is like a wise
man who built his house on the rock. Therefore
everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who
built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:24

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Real Christianity is about

not

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Be With Jesus:

01
Prayer is not our last resort,
it’s our first response.

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask

anything according to his will, he hears us.
1 John 5:14

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in
truth.
Psalm 145:18

02
We deny our flesh to feed our spirit.

Jesus fasted, “After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was
hungry.
Matthew 4:2

So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered

our prayer.
Ezra 8:23

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Be With Jesus:

03
Not reading the Bible shouldn’t make you feel guilty,
it should make you hungry.

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-
edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints
and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,

correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God
may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:17

04
Commitment tends to last better in community.
Our church is not a place it is a people.

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love
and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the
habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as
you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to

fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Acts 4:42

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Become Like Jesus:

In order to have the life, we have to adopt the lifestyle.

01 The pace of Jesus was and

Jesus took interruptions as intiviations.

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the
Son of Man has no place to lay his head.
Mattthew 8:20

02 Jesus took time for and

“Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfilment”

- Richard Foster

But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

Luke 5:16

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left
the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Mark 1:35

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they
did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with
me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” So they went
away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place.
Mark 6:31-32

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Become Like Jesus:

03 Jesus would weekly and

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man
for the Sabbath
Mark 2:27

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Do What Jesus Did:

01 Get Water

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized

by John.
Matthew 3:17

02 Preach the

From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for
the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew 4:17

03 Serve

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve,
and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Mark 10:45

04 Heal the

Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in
their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom,
and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.
Matthew 9:35

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Water
baptism
We practice baptism by immersion in water, which is the
way Jesus was baptized and the way the Bible describes.

At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in

Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water,
he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit
descending on him like a dove.
Mark 1:9-10

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19

Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will

also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
But whoever disowns me before others,
I will disown before my Father in heaven.
Matthew 10:32-33

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By being water baptized,

you are:

01 Following the set by Jesus

02 Demonstrating your life

03 Declaring your commitment

Water baptism declares

what has happened

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Next Encounter
steps
01 Give your heart to Jesus to be saved.
You can use the salvation prayer on page 11 as a guide.

02 Declare your relationship with Jesus publicly.

Water baptism is the example Jesus set, and we follow this
example to publicly share our new life in Him.

03 Join a VOUS Crew.

Visit the Connect Corner or vouschurch.com/crews

04 Complete all four steps of the Growth Track.

stepOne: Encounter
stepTwo: Establish
stepThree: Equip
stepFour: Empower

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YOU
DID
IT!