Godspeed: Making Christ's Mission Your Own

by Britt Merrick

Publisher:

David C Cook

, 2012

Have you ever felt like there’s a higher calling for your life? Something more than the mundane weekly routine of work, eat, sleep, play, and church? In Godspeed, Britt Merrick challenges us to step out of our little, self-centered lives and step into God’s grand mission—His plan to restore, redeem, and renew the world.

 

Your heart has been aching for something more, and this is it. Join His mission and change the world.

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Top Highlights

“because a teaching that’s not grounded biblically is not a teaching worth living by” (source)

“This foundation requires that we center on the purposes of God, the heart of God, the revelation of God, the gospel of God, and the triune person of God.” (source)

“The call of Christ is first a call to Christ. Our primary pursuit is intimacy with Him, and thereafter we are sent into the world to do His work.” (source)

“Mission is not primarily an activity of the church; rather mission is an attribute of God. Let me explain” (source)

“God is love,’ we read in 1 John 4:8,¹³ and such love must have an object, an action, and an opportunity. It is the very nature of love to be others-centered. The dynamic love of the Godhead flows outward toward humanity, and it broke into time and space at the moment of the incarnation. Mission is the love of God moving for God’s glory; Jesus is the love of God manifest in human history. Therefore, because God is love, God is always on mission.” (source)

Product Details

• Title : Godspeed: Making Christ's Mission Your Own
• Author: Merrick, Britt
• Publisher: David C Cook
• Publication Date: 2012
• ISBN: 9781434705013

About Britt Merrick

Britt Merrick was born and raised near Santa Barbara, California, in a little town on the beach named Carpinteria. He grew up entrenched in the surf industry, working for his parents' business, Channel Islands Surfboards. Starting by sweeping out the shaping rooms, soon he was making surfboards alongside his father (Al Merrick) for some of the best surfers in the world. Britt was also handling the famous company's advertising, marketing, and amateur surf team. Although he received Jesus as a young child, Britt had never known what it was to walk with him. He had both feet in the world, using drugs and alcohol, and getting into trouble. In his early twenties, Britt was introduced to the transforming power of the Word of God, and thus began a new life. Shortly after recommitting his life to the Lord with a fresh fire for the Truth, Britt began to teach Bible studies at his parents' home for the surfer kids in Carpinteria. These Bible studies eventually led to Britt teaching and preaching at a Friday night college ministry at a local church in Santa Barbara. In the fall of 2003, sensing a further call to ministry, Britt laid Channel Island Surfboards aside and he and his wife, along with some close friends, started a church called Reality in his hometown of Carpinteria. Since then, the Reality family has grown to include churches in Ventura, Los Angeles, Stockton, San Francisco, and London. Reality is focused on biblical faithfulness, community transformation, church birthing, and equipping the next generation of leaders. Britt continues to pastor full time and lives with his wife Kate, and their two children in Carpinteria.