As part of our Membership Matters series we have been talking about the proposals for our Church Covenant and our Statement of Beliefs. These two documents express our commitment to biblical truth and to biblical ethics. We also need to be clear about what we are called to do together as a church.
Sunday night, January 21, I presented the above drawing that “pictures” my proposals for a rewording of our mission statement, the process that should flow from it, as well as key disciplines we need to continually nurture. I hope you will become very familiar with the challenge this drawing represents.
For this month, particularly note the summary of our mission as a church. Our mission is to WORSHIP the Lord, DISCIPLE the saved, SERVE others, and REACH the lost. It will be more fully stated in our proposed Constitution with the following words:
Our mission is to worship the Lord by loving Him with all our heart, mind, soul and strength; to disciple the saved by teaching one another to observe all that Christ commanded; to serve others by loving them as we love ourselves; and to reach the lost by proclaiming the gospel at every opportunity to all people everywhere.
These high purposes flow out of Jesus’ Great Commandment and Great Commission. Everything we do as a church should directly relate to accomplishing one or more of these assignments of our Lord.
Listen carefully in the days ahead as we seek to order our processes to accomplish these missions.
