As a church, we believe that the most loving thing we can do in our community, in our nation, and in our world is to share the gospel message of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection. If Christians have been called to love our neighbors as ourselves, then we should hope they will confess sin, repent from their wickedness, believe in God, and live eternally to glorify Him. Loving them towards any other end could not be considered love at all.
To live missionally in any context is to be an influencer of culture without being absorbed by culture. Instead of continually seeking to bring the culture of our society into our worship of God, we actively seek to create culture by being ambassadors of Christ in a foreign world.
As missionaries in Wentzville, our practice of revealing Christ will not center around taking people to a sacred space where God lives and wants to be worshipped, but pointing out the omnipresence of God in all places at all times with every passing opportunity. By doing this, we (Christians) will worship every day of the week.
In every cultural context we find ourselves, we will recognize ourselves as the image bearers of Christ to unsaved people. Because of this, we will desperately seek to uphold the beauty of Christ in the words we speak and in the ways we act (and react).
When we speak about hospitality, we will be referring not merely to serving our Christian brothers and sisters but also to our generosity with non-believing guests.
As we proclaim Christ to people inside and outside of the church, we will recognize that our methods can change while the message remains the same. With this understanding, we will contextualize our presentation of the never-changing Gospel to an ever-changing culture in this generation and in generations to come.
We believe that missional living must begin in the home. Godly parents are a growing child’s primary agents of grace. Therefore, the gospel must inform, motivate, and be the central focus and message of the entire parenting process. This also applies to foster and adoptive parenting. In fact, the freeing, empowering, and motivating work of God in Christ to fully welcome, adopt, and care for us as His children leads us to be faithfully active in fostering and adopting children in need of the love and truth of Christ from within a Christian home—a unified family centered around and built upon Christ Jesus.