1. Our Mission in Your Community

2. Our Mission Who are we and why do we exist?
What are we to be and to do?
How are we to do it and how well are we doing it?
The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing!

3. A Mission Statement
A written declaration of an organization's core purpose and focus that normally remains unchanged over time. Properly crafted mission statements (1) serve as filters to separate what is important from what is not, (2) clearly state which markets will be served and how, and (3) communicate a sense of intended direction to the entire organization.

4. A Mission Statement
A mission is different from a vision in that the former is the cause and the latter is the effect; a mission is something to be accomplished whereas a vision is something to be pursued for that accomplishment.

5. God’s Mission for Man
God gave Adam a blessing and a mission (Gen. 1:27-28)
God gave Abraham a blessing and a mission (Gen. 12:1-3)
God gave Israel a blessing and a mission (Deut. 28:7-14)

6. God’s Mission for Man
God gives parents a blessing (Psa. 127) and a mission (Eph. 6:1-4)
God gives husbands a blessing (Prov. 18:22; 19:14) and a mission (Eph. 5:25)

7. Christ’s Mission for Us
Christians are blessed (Acts 3:26) and we have a mission (1 Tim. 3:15)!
Like the “mission statement”, we must know our purpose, stay focused, keep the right direction, and remain unchanged in mission

8. Our Mission Is Not… Social reform Recreation Business
Secular education
Politics
Medicine

9. Our Mission Is… ( Illus. with various churches )
To evangelize the lost (1 Thess. 1:8)
To edify the saved (Eph. 4:12)
To help the needy (1 Cor. 16:2)
To worship the Lord (Acts 20:7)

10. Our Mission Is… ( Illus. with the Jerusalem church )
To evangelize the lost (Acts 4:4; 5:14, 42; 6:4, 7; 8:4)
To edify the saved (Acts 15:1-29)
To help the needy (Acts 2:44-45; 4:32-37; 6:1-4)
To worship the Lord (Acts 2:42)

11. Mission Lost
Five of the seven churches of Asia lost their mission (Rev. 2-3)!
This happened within 40 years!
Mission was lost by a lack of love, allowing false teaching to come in, not completing works, and materialism!

12. Mission Focus
Jesus stayed focused on his mission (Mk. 1:38; Jn. 9:4; Lk. 9:51)
Paul stayed focused on his mission (2 Cor. 5:9; 2 Tim. 4:7)
We will stay focused on our mission (1 Cor. 15:58)