| Our mission is to develop people into devoted Christ followers.
The mission of every church is fixed, given by the Head of the Church, our Lord Jesus Christ. We don't decide on our mission. He commanded it in Matthew 28:18-20, called the Great Commission. Here it is as it appears in the Bible:
The Great Commission.
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth." Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. (Matthew 28:18-20)
We have simply personalized and translated some of the ancient language into a mission statement more easily understood by people of today. For instance, "making disciples" is translated as "developing devoted Christ followers." The meaning and instruction from Christ is unchanged, only translated for teaching purposes, much like we read an English Bible because Greek and Hebrew are not our first languages.
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