To achieve our mission statement, we need
to become a WHOLE people.
It is our intention to increase in
each of the following areas.
Love
Love the Lord your God
your neighbor
and your enemies! We are called to love God, neighbors and enemies with an agape love. God gave this word agape tangible, visible meaning in the sending of and the self-sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ. Through the life and death of Jesus, we find that this love involves great cost, sacrifice, selflessness, humility, obedience and commitment. This is the love we as a Church are to have for God, our neighbor and even our enemies. This love is possible in and through the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5). As stated above in regards to holiness, we can only manifest agape when we walk
in step with the Holy Spirit, who is the
God of agape in you.
Endurance
if we endure, we shall also reign with him!
This awesome Christian life is a life of endurance. Jesus teaches us that we will only be fruitful if we endure affliction and persecution. Jesus Himself is the great endurance runner. Hebrews tell us that we need to throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and run with perseverance the race marked out for us. We are told to fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross. Furthermore it tell us to consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that we will not grow weary and lose heart. Finally, Mark tells us that he who endures to the end will be saved. |