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Deeper Church is a vision series at Cross-Way Church. As usual, we will focus on our vision after our evangelism outreach trip in January, to re-focus on our vision and mission. Why we are a church in the city, a resource church that is focused on planting and nurturing churches throughout the 77 districts of Nepal? We have a particular understanding of a church, “mental model” of a church, that is, we believe Jesus’ vision for a church in context. It is perhaps different than many other churches in Nepal. The Church is the body of Christ, it is in the world to know who Christ is, make him known, and to do as he did. John Mark Comer calls it “to be with Jesus, to become like Jesus, and to do as Jesus did.” (Practicing the Way,2024).  Why the topic “deeper church”. Because, often churches in our society have been shallow- our understanding, our vision of/for a church is what’s above the surface “good enough to show for” a leader focused, a program focused, a society oriented in the name of the gospel, discipleship, mission, etc. Bigger we are, and the wider our influence, the happier we are. But, we have to ask, what does God want, What would Jesus want in/from a church?  In this series, we will focus on what makes a healthy church, a “deeper church”? Deeper church is a church that can weather any/everything changing weather/climate can bring against it. It's durable, sustained through all seasons of life-church. What consists of a deeper church? We’ll focus on the four elements: 1. Strength of its Roots. 2. Health in Growth, 3. Fruit it Bears, 4. Ability to Propagate (seed), etc.