Always Good News Campaign

Campaign Overview

We all need more good news! And not just the fleeting kind that makes us feel better for a little while. We need good news that regularly encourages our heart because it transcends all the bad news and puts every bit of it in a hope filled framework. Download the document for an overview about how an Always Good News campaign will help your entire church experience the good news about Jesus we all need.
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Role of the Book

Always Good News: Why the Message of Jesus Is Good Every Day is an important tool in an Always Good News campaign. Download the document for three examples of how it can be used.


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Life Group Sessions

Life Groups are another important part of an Always Good News campaign. They provide modeling and direction from a leader, a place for people to talk about what they are learning, prayer support for what they are experiencing and encouragement from each other to follow Jesus more fully.
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Always Good News Trailer

We have hope because Jesus has overcome the world. Our trials will not have the last word. We will be victorious because he has conquered fear, hunger, hatred, and even death. If we call upon the name of Jesus, there's nothing in this world that can defeat us because he has already won. And that is always good news! The Always Good News trailer video is a great way to build momentum and excitement for the campaign among your congregation and in your community.
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Beach Baptism Video

Living Faith Christian Church experienced an incredible outpouring of God's grace as 145 people publicly declared their faith in Jesus and were baptized at the beach with hundreds of family and friends lining the shore in celebration. This video captures that event and can be used in a variety of ways in your own Always Good News campaign. For example, you can play it for your staff and volunteer leaders as a way to cast vision and inspire commitment. You can even lead your church in singing the "Great I Am" on the first Sunday of the campaign and use it as the visual background with lyrics added to the video as provided in the link below.
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Full Media Kit

All the media files you need and more for your Always Good News Campaign are available here: fonts, good news quotes, handout cards, notebook, short video backgrounds, slides, t-shirt, videos, etc.
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sermons

These sermons were preached by Scott Lothery at Living Faith Christian Church. The manuscripts are available for churches to use in an Always Good News campaign in whole or in part.

The Good News

We live in a bad news world filled with relentlessly disturbing headlines–war and crime, poverty and pandemics, racism and oppression, mass murder and disaster. And we all experience discouragement in our personal lives as well–temptation and regret, pain and suffering, failure and disappointment, decline and death. Though the world is overflowing with bad news, the message of Jesus is bigger and brighter than all of it, giving us hope in the midst of every negative experience of our lives. Romans 1:1-7 has five descriptions of the Gospel as good news.
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Lord

Humanity’s attempts to rule planet Earth have been devastating. Likewise, our individuals’ efforts to control our little worlds have been quite destructive at times. We are all responsible to some degree for the bad news world that we live in. Yet, there is good news about the reign of Jesus. Psalm 2 contains three headlines that reveal him to be the one true Lord of the world, as well as the only human response that these headlines compel.
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Sin

Sin is not a well-known or popular idea. For a long while, Apple’s virtual assistant Siri didn’t know what sin was. Similarly, if you asked the open AI chatbot ChatGPT what sin is when it first went online, it described the mathematical concept of sine, as in sine, cosine, and tangent. What is sin? The Bible defines it as what is wrong within us, the wrong that comes out of us, and the wrong caused in the world as a result. The good news is Jesus is putting all of it right. Revelation 21:1-8 describes three ways he is doing that.
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Savior

In a recent survey of 2,000 U.S. residents, 81% indicated that they believe humanity is inherently good, 75% said they themselves are fundamentally a good person and 46% went a step further, they’re “better” than everyone else they know. Evil runs rampant on the planet, and yet, humans think there isn’t anything wrong with us humans. The truth is we are sinners need a savior, and Galatians 1:1-5, describes the three ways that Jesus is the only Savior of sinners.
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Faith

It is common to believe that Heaven is for people who deserve to be there, like it is based on what we do for God, an eternal payment for a life well lived. Some people even think it’s the default mode of our destiny. That is, we are going there, unless we do something really bad here. But the Bible teaches something different, namely that, Jesus is saving sinners by grace through faith. Ephesians 2:1-10 contains five truths that elaborate on Christian salvation.
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Accuracy

When operating a moving vehicle of any sort, it is really important to have accurate information about where you are going and how you are getting there. If the windshield of your car is full of fog, you don’t want to be driving because you could crash. The consequences could be devastating. The same is true about the content of the good news about Jesus. It is vital to have accuracy about the headlines. Galatians 1:6-12 contains six reasons why we need to get the Gospel right.
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Clarity

The Gospel of Jesus is the power of God for the salvation of all who believe, and the influence of the Lord upon people proceeds from simply presenting this good news. That means that God can use anyone of us to unleash his power into the world at any time in any place with any person. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 articulates five ways the power of God is NOT displayed, so that we are clear that the power of God is displayed by being clear about the Gospel.
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Urgency

An atheist once told a British pastor, “If I believed what you Christians say you believe about Jesus, I would crawl on my bare knees on crushed glass all over London, warning men, night and day, to repent of their sin and turn to Jesus Christ who is their only place of refuge.” He recognized that, if the Gospel was true, there is an urgency to spread it. It is the most pressing matter on the plane, the highest priority in the world. Romans 10:9-15 explains the five steps to being saved from finish to start, so that we feel this urgency.
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Love

When Mary Ann, 4, was asked, “What does love mean?” she replied, “Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.” What is love? How would you define it? How would you explain it to people? And what does it have to do with the good news about Jesus? Romans 5:1-11 has three insights into the relationship between the Gospel and God’s love.
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