The consuming passion of a person or organization is defined by the mission to which they or it believes are called to do. The Merriman Webster Dictionary defines a “Mission” as “a specific task with which a person or a group is charged.” With that in mind, consider Covenant’s Mission.
“We exist to:
Celebrate the love of God,
Cultivate a relationship with God
Care about one another in Christ.
Communicate Christ to all people.”
We see each element of our mission in the life, work and words of Jesus as He walked among humanity. The writer of Acts 10:38 summed up Jesus’ mission by saying: “And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
We also see Jesus’ mission in His words. He shared it in a less conventional manner when He was asked, “What is the greatest commandment?” Jesus responded that, “The first and greatest commandment is to love God completely with everything you’ve got in your thinking, feeling, knowing and emotions.” I believe part of Jesus’ mission was to let us know that loving God in such an extreme way has profound benefit to our lives.
Let’s face it; we don’t have to go looking for ways to feel bad about ourselves. We encounter folks everyday glad to help us do so. Some of us are experts at doing that to and for ourselves. Covenant’s Mission is to do just the opposite. “Celebrating the love of God” is “a specific task with which Covenant is charged.” Fulfilling that mission for ourselves and others impacts positively our lives and those we serve.
Join us at Covenant on this first Sunday in August as we began a 4-part sermon series on our Covenant Mission Statement. This week the sermon is “THE MISSION – PART 1 – TO CELEBRATE THE LOVE OF GOD” based on Psalms 51:1-12.
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