Mission

In God’s marvelous master plan to spread the gospel, He has devised a strategy that is both corporate and personal (1 Cor. 12:11-28). There is one body, but that body is constructed of many members working harmoniously to achieve the end of sharing the good news of salvation with a dying world.

When the body is working for the salvation of others, something wonderful happens to its individual parts. “Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work” (Eph. 4:14-16, NIV).

If the church is truly the body of Christ, it will have loving arms that reach out to others, especially those who are suffering and careworn. It just can’t help it, because that’s what Jesus does, and He is the one and only head of this body.