What Is Our Mission?

My father was a principal, his father a mechanic.  And his father (my great-grandfather) raised crops.  (if moonshine is a crop).  And I am a pastor.  That doesn't sound unusual to us, but in human history it's abnormal.  Because for most of time son's followed their fathers in their footsteps.

Your profession chose you!  And there are vestiges of this leftover in last names that describe occupations:  Baker, Carpenter, Smith, Brewer, Cook, Gardner, Miller, Parker, Skinner, Tanner, Tillman, Warden.


As we have explored the church, what it is, and what church members are, we now come to a place where we wonder:  What is our mission?  And simply put, our mission is our Father's mission.  Just like son's followed in the occupation of their fathers, so are we to follow in the mission of our Heavenly Father.  Jesus told his parents when they found him in the temple as a child.  "I must be about my Father's business"

So the starting place for us is clear.  2 Cor 5:17-21 lays out God's plan, and in turn our plan as well.

 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.  Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.  He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

-Our mission is to offer the conditional transformation available within Christ to all who will listen.

-Our mission is to offer the reconciliation to God available within Christ.

-Our mission is to be a picture within the church of the reconciling power of God, bringing all tribes, ages, political parties, and tongues together.



In a divided world, the message of reconciliation stands out loud and clear. The mission of the church is to be a living picture of the Gospel that all may see God and worship Him.