Mission
"Making the Gospel Paramount"
Our Mission
Our mission is to make the gospel Paramount in all things for the sinner's joy and the Savior's glory.
The gospel is good news of great joy for all people (Lk. 2:10). The gospel also takes dead aim at and most clearly reveals the glory of God (Lk. 2:14; Eph. 1:6, 12, 14; 2 Cor. 4:6).
Our Focus
Our passion starts with helping people come to understand that Jesus is the central focus of the entire Bible. The Bible is primarily a message of God’s saving grace through Jesus Christ. He is the goal and fulfillment of the Old Testament as well as the interpretive key to the Bible.
Everything in Scripture before the cross points to God’s redemptive work and everything after the cross–including our sanctification–flows from that work. gospel is the key that unlocks the meaning of Scripture (cf. Luke 24:27). The Bible is more than a code of moral principles for Christian living. It is more than a “Dummies Guide” on how to follow Jesus.
Our Challenge
Through this Christ-centered understanding of Scripture, our challenge is to help Christians grow in obedience in all areas of their lives by the power of the Gospel rather than their own strength, guilt, or fear. Graeme Goldsworthy notes,
“All the problems and imperfections that we experience are failures to be conformed to the gospel. The only remedy that the New Testament prescribes for our problems is to bring our lives to conform to the gospel," (Preaching the Whole Bible As Christian Scriptures, p. 50).
The gospel must be the fixed center point of reference for all of life. Therefore, we work intentionally to make the gospel paramount in all we do (e.g., whether it is a children’s Sunday school lesson, how our LifeGroups interact with one another, our giving, the songs we sing, how we pray, the books we read, missions and evangelism, the media we use, etc...).
Our only sufficiency comes from God, who by His grace through the gospel and the Holy Spirit, has made us competent and given us life (2 Cor. 2:16-17; 3:5-6).
