A Shared Purpose
As a church, we are constantly striving to come together to accomplish our mission of leading people in Central Massachusetts into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. Every year, month, week,and day we work towards this goal as a collection of broken people who have been forgiven by the sacrifice of Jesus.
You wouldn’t believe (or maybe you would) how difficult it is to keep this mission THE focus for our church.
There are numerous roads we could follow as a group of people. We could focus on obedience or social justice, the color of the carpet or the volume of the band, but we choose not to, because we have our mission, our shared purpose, and we choose instead to share this purpose.
There’s nothing wrong with these things. Obedience and social justice are surely fruits of our surrender to this God-man I’ve just mentioned, and sometimes we have to pick the color of the carpet or change the volume of the band in a room, but they are not the focus.
No, if you attend Fellowship Church, I want you to know that we have a shared purpose, and it always points to connecting people and leading them into a growing relationship with Jesus.
Everything we do. Everything we accomplish as a church should focus on this mission. Sometimes the road seems long and tough, but together, we can become the church God wants us to be. So internally, please answer this question with me:
Who am I connecting? Who am I leading?
Thanks for reading my blog.
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One of the best blogs I’ve read of yours yet. Maybe its because its where my thoughts have been a lot lately. A church without a mission is a church without hope, and any mission other than knowing Jesus and making Him known, is useless in my opinion.