Messiah Lutheran is a purpose-driven church! We are dedicated to fulfilling God’s purpose for us – GROWING GOD’S FAMILY.
Yes, But How (YBH)?
God wants His church to bring people in and to grow them up! We summarize the mission and the meaning of Messiah Church in one phrase: Growing God’s Family. “Growing” is meant in two ways:
- As individual believers, we grow spiritually closer to God our Father and become more like Jesus Christ our Brother.
- As a family of faith, we grow numerically by inviting and bringing into membership more and more of the people of our community.
Messiah’s mission is to “Grow God’s Family” – to grow the number of members and to grow the Spirit in members. We’ve organized our mission based on the five purposes of the church:
Worship
Purpose: Gather together to give joyful thanks and praise to God. (Psalms 95:1-2 NLT) Come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us give a joyous shout to the rock of our salvation! {2} Let us come before him with thanksgiving. Let us sing him psalms of praise.
Discipleship & Youth
Purpose: Grow each member in his or her relationship to God. (Romans 8:29 NLT) For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn, with many brothers and sisters.
Fellowship
Purpose: Nurture in each person the security of belonging to one another in a spiritual family. (Ephesians 1:5 NLT) His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.
Ministry
Purpose: Empower each member to discover a way to serve others for Jesus’ sake. (Ephesians 2:10 NLT) For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (2 Corinthians 4:1 NLT) And so, since God in his mercy has given us this wonderful ministry, we never give up.
Connecting Others to Christ (COC)
Purpose: Invite others to share in the love of Jesus. (Matthew 28:19 NLT) Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.