Mission and Purpose
The church teaches that it should be a place to:
- "establish, develop and nurture a relationship with Jesus Christ, the Son of God"
- "grow in grace through song, worship, testimony, fasting and prayer"
- "enjoy the love of God and fellowship by ‘working’ with others of the same desire"
- "understand and learn the Holy Scriptures through adult class study"
- "teach and nurture children according to God's Word through Sunday School Youth Groups"
- "strengthen marriages and families"
- "better understand what they believe to be the Lord’s will in our lives"
The church believes that serving God and following Jesus is a "365 day per year activity", not just a Sunday activity. Chapels of the church contain neither altars nor crosses nor even pictures, as they believe scripture forbids any type of "graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth" (Exodus 20:4-7).
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Famous quotes containing the words mission and/or purpose:
“Every Age has its own peculiar faith.... Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.”
—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.... A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice—is often the means of their regeneration.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)