1 / 21

What is mission?

This mission centers on the Christian participation in Jesus' liberating mission, embodying God's love through community witness for the world. The Methodist Church follows an apostolic faith with priorities like worship, learning, service, and evangelism. Engaging in justice-rooted mission, combating societal issues like HIV/AIDS, abuse, corruption, and violence. Embracing social capital partnerships, the church aims to proclaim good news, support community development, and challenge injustice by being God-centered, promoting evangelism and flexible, people-centric culture.

rgaddy
Download Presentation

What is mission?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. What is mission? • Mission is the participation of Christians in the liberating mission of Jesus. • It is the good news of God’s love, incarnated in the witness of a community for the sake of the world. • David Bosch Transforming Mission

  2. “It’s not the church that has a mission. It’s the God of mission who has a church.” Tim Dearbourne

  3. The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God’s love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission

  4. You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God…1Peter 2: 9 • Confidence • Discipleship • Transformation • Social capital • Brave Social capital

  5. Partnership • 61 Partner Churches • Apostolic faith, evangelism, discipline, preaching of the word, class meetings, personal and social holiness • Committed to the reign of God and the proclamation of the good news for all • Condemnation of world economic system

  6. Engagement in mission that is rooted in the justice of God’s reign • HIV/AIDS • Abuse and exploitation of women and children • Corruption • Violence • Health care and education • Working in partnership with all who share similar aims.

  7. Luke 4: 18,19 • Good news to the poor • Proclaim release to the captives • Recovery of sight to the blind • Oppressed go free • Proclaim this is the year

  8. Worship – the church exists to increase awareness of God’s presence and to celebrate God’s love

  9. Learning and Caring – the church exists to help people grow and learn as Christians through mutual support and care • Sharing the task of education, social and spiritual development • Caring for individual people and communities • Building partnerships with other churches and groups who share some of our mission aims.

  10. Service – the church exists to be a good neighbour o people in need and to challenge injustice. • Struggling for a just world • Being alongside the poor • Caring for the earth • Becoming friends with people of other cultures and faiths

  11. Evangelism – the church exists to make more followers of Jesus Christ • Telling the good news of Jesus Christ • Calling people to faith in Jesus Christ and Christian discipleship

  12. Priorities for the Methodist Church • In partnership with others wherever possible… • Underpinning everything we do with God centred worship and prayer • Supporting community development and action for justice, especially amongst the most deprived and poor in Britain and worldwide.

  13. Developing confidence in evangelism and in the capacity to speak of God and faith in ways that make sense to all • Encouraging fresh ways of being Church • Nurturing a culture in the Church which is people centred and flexible.

More Related