The Local Mission of Faith Fellowship Church

What is the MISSION of Faith Fellowship Church?

• LOVE GOD - Matt 22:37 Love God with all your heart mind and strength 
• LOVE OTHERS - Matt 22:39  Love your neighbor as yourself
• GO OUT - Matt 28:19-20  Go and Make Disciples

These three things are the MANDATE (Marching Orders) from God and thus for our Local Church

Review the message from Two Weeks ago:

Luke 24: 44-49 - Jesus declares that He is the fulfillment of the law and everything in it and that now the responsibility of the disciples was to go and to share the Gospel and point others to this truth and to do that… He was giving them the Holy Spirit as the source of power to accomplish this mandate.

If this is the message of “The Church”…. how are we to make that a reality as THIS LOCAL CHURCH ?!

What are we supposed to be doing? Why do WE Exist as a Church? Why?

We recognize and accept the call of BEING THE CHURCH God has called… IN THIS PLACE AND AT THIS TIME.

Quote: “Mike Williams (MVNU Professor) We are NOT on a MISSION FROM GOD… We are on a MISSION WITH GOD!”

He also pointed out that to STAY ON THE MISSION WITH GOD… people have to be willing to deny themselves and to DEVOTE themselves to the Mission!

What is OUR Mission as Faith Fellowship Church…

1. To connect people to God.
2. To Be Christlike in our Johnstown/Northridge Communities.
3. LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS and GO OUT.

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n other words…

“To Live By Faith, To Be Known By Love.. and to Be A Voice of Hope”

“Faith Fellowship needs to be about Living Out Our Faith… Being Examples of Christ By Unconditionally Loving Others… and by Offering HOPE Found in a Relationship with Jesus!”

Commitment to a CLEAR, SIMPLE yet COMPELLING MISSION will not run the risk of “pirates” coming into the midst of the Church to Highjack the Church to their own personal mission. People who do this, and it does happen, are guilty of the sin of preference. These are people who make moral absolutes out of their own personal preferences.

If you don't make the MISSION with God clearly defined, then you run the risk of people coming in, getting into leader positions and steering people away from what God has called us to be and do.