Our vision
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- Published: Wednesday, 23 March 2016 03:04
- Written by James Dean
Some time ago the question was asked, "What is the vision of BEChurch?" I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest that question wasn't answered as clearly as it could have been because we weren't all that clear on the answer ourselves.
It's time we changed that.
Taking some very simple directives of scripture, as a Christian church we are called to:
- "Love the Lord your God" (Deut 6:5 / Matt 22:37)
- "Make disciples of all nations" (Matt 28:19)
- "Love one another" (John 13:34-35, Rom 12:10, Heb 10:24...)
- "Love your neighbour" (Lev 19:18, Matt 5:43-45; 22:39)
With those scriptures in mind, and keeping it simple and easy to remember, I'm going to suggest that the Biblical vision of every Christian church - ours included - is to:
Love God. Love each other. Serve the world.
I'm not the first to use this and I'm sure I won't be the last. But if that is our vision - and I'm strongly suggesting it should be - then we have to ensure that we know how we put that vision into practice. We need to understand the method for living that out. That too is simple, because it's the same thing.
We love God. We love each other. We serve the world.
Everything we do as a church naturally pours out of those three things. Everything we plan to do as a church should naturally hang from one of those three pegs. Nothing we do as a church should fall outside these areas.
I'll write further on this another time, but expect to hear this a lot more. I want to ensure that we all get this. I want us all to ensure that we all understand it. Love God. Love each other. Serve the world. That's us. That's our BEChurch.
