Forming a Mission Statement

Forming a Mission Statement: (Statement of purpose used to align my life to my values) Personal mission statements as well as business mission statements combine your vision for your life with your values (your decision making tools) to direct all your efforts towards a pre-determined outcome.

Vision: What do we want to be and do, ultimately:
Values: What methods or standards will guide our decisions:

Step 1: Visualize the end result:
Step 2: Evaluate the present:
Step 3: Define our strategy to reach the vision:
Step 4: Formulate a statement:

The mission of the founder: Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

1. The Son of man is Jesus Christ: His title is reflective of the fact that He (God) came in a body of flesh so that He could die on the cross in our place.
2. Seeking and saving: He is constantly seeking us while we are interested in other things. When we come in contact with Him, there is an opportunity to receive salvation, or a rescue from the wrath of God.
3. That which was lost: In the garden of Eden, when man sinned, he not only lost his relationship with God (which is restored in salvation) but he also brought a curse on the earth. The earth must be restored to its sinless state before the Son presents it back to God.

The strategy of the founder:

1. Fulfilling the Bible: (Mat 5:17) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

2. Looking for those who know they are in need. (Mat 9:13) But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

3. Expecting confrontation at times. Especially with friends and family. (Mat 10:34) Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. (Mat 10:35) For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

4. We are going out representing the God of Heaven and not ourselves. If they reject the message it is God they reject. (Joh 5:43) I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

5. We have a real message of hope and peace. (Joh 10:10) The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

6. Answers for people’s problems (Joh 12:46) I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

7. As agents, with the promise and the ministry of reconciliation. (Heb 9:15) And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Great Commission The Great Commission is the purpose of the church. Our purpose as a Sunday School class, seminar, or small group must line up with the great commission if we are to have the blessings and power of God. In the great commission, we see another portion of the strategy of the founder. Enlisting all members in the mission.

(Mat 28:19) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: (Mat 28:20) Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

(Mar 16:15) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

(Luk 24:47) And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

(Joh 20:21) Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

(Act 1:8) But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.