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To share the Word with the
unchurched and win cities and nations with the love of Jesus!
"Until we all reach unity in the
faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature,
attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." (Eph
4.13)
"The Lord... is patient with you,
not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to
repentance." (2Pet 3.9)
"For God so loved the world that
he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have eternal life." (John 3.16)
"And this gospel of the kingdom
will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all
nations, and then the end will come." (Mat 24.14)
To seek holiness permanently, e. i.,
have
our spirit constantly undefiled!
"It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should
avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to
control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in
passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and that
in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage
of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, and we have
already told you and warned you. For God did not call us to be
impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this
instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy
Spirit.”
(1Tss 4.3-8).
“Make effort to live in peace with
all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the
Lord. See to it that no one misses the Grace of God and that no
bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. See that
no one is sexual immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a
single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.
Afterwards, as you know, when he wanted to inherit the blessing,
he was rejected. He could bring about no change of mind, though
he sought the blessing with tears.” (Heb 12.14-17)
To cause no embarrassment, except
due to love and the covenant with God!
"For the love of Christ constrains
us..." (2Cor 5.14) (MKJV)
"...not reluctantly or under compulsion…"
(2Cor 9.7)
"...
Neither do I condemn you..." (John 8.11)
To be a ministry in which all the
disciples can prosper, and even get rich materially speaking,
wholly in the blessing of the God of Israel, and without any
felling of guilt!
“Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and
gold.”
(Gen 13.2)
“One man pretends to be rich, yet
has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.”
(Pr 13.7)
“Rich and poor have this in
common: The Lord is the Maker of them all.” (Pro 22.2)
“As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea,
named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.”
(Mat 27.57).
To be a community labeled by its
simplicity!
"...
be ... harmless (simple) as doves." (Mat 10.16) (KJV+Strong)
"...do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they
preach. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men’s shoulders,
but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move
them."
(Mat 23.3-4)
"The greatest among you will be your servant.
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and
whoever humbles himself will be exalted." (Mat 23.11-12)
To raise the life standard of our
community!
"The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to
destroy. I have come so they might have live, and that they
might have it more abundantly."
(John 10.10) (MKJV)
"...
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s
work." (1John 3.8)
"A man can do nothing better than
to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I
see, is from the hand of God." (Ecc 2.24)
"Make it your ambition to lead a
quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your
hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the
respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on
anybody." (1Ts 4.11-12)
Strengthen family relationships!
"However, each one of you must
also love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must
respect her husband." (Eph 5.33)
"Children obey your parents in the
Lord, for this is right." (Eph 6.1)
"Fathers do not exasperate your
children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction
of the Lord." (Eph 6.4)
These are some of the core values
for us, Disciples of the Lord Jesus, in the International
Ministry of the Saviour!
To have a primary commitment with
the essence of worship, that is to bring lives to the Lord of
Savation!
"Our fathers worshiped on this
mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must
worship is in Jerusalem. Jesus declared, ... Yet a time is
coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship
the father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of
worshipers the father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers
must worship in spirit and in truth…
... Come, see a man who told me
everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ? They came out
of the town and made their way toward him. Meanwhile his
disciples urged him, Rabi, eat something. But he said to them, I
have food to eat that you know nothing about. Then his disciples
said to each other, Could someone have brought him food? My
food, said Jesus, is to do the will of him who sent me and to
finish his work.
Do you not say, Four months more and then the
heavest?
I
tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe
for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he
harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper
may be glad together. Thus the saying One sows and another reaps
is true. I sent you to reap where you have not worked for.
Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits
of their labor.
Many of the Samaritans from that
town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, He told
me everything I ever did. So when the Samaritans came to him,
they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And
because of his words many more became believers.
They said to the woman, We no longer believe just because of
what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that
this man really is the Savior of the world…"
(John 4.20-24
e 29-42)
To be conscious of our
imperfection!
"When they kept on questioning
him, he straightened up and said to them, if any one of you is
without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
(John 8.7)
"If we claim to be without sin, we
deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." (1John 1.8)
"For all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God." (Rom 3.23)
Our reference is not in the past,
but in the present and the future with Christ!
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the
old has gone, the new has come!"
(2Cor 5.17)
"Who will bring any charge against those whom God
has chosen?
It is God who justifies." (Rom 8.33)
"THEREFORE, there is no
condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, for those who do
not live according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."
(Rom 8.1)
To trust the grace of the Lord
Jesus alone for our eternal salvation!
"For it is by grace you have been
saved, through faith – this is not from yourselves, it is the
gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast." (Eph
2.8-9)
"Through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in
which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of
God."
(Rom 5.2)
To be commited to a continuous
improvement!
"Be perfect, therefore, as your
heavenly Father is perfect." (Mat 5.48)
"When the Pharisees saw this, they
asked his disciples, why does your teacher eat with tax
collectors and sinners? On hearing this, Jesus said, It is not
the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn
what it means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not
come to call the righteous, but sinners." (Mat 9.11-13)
"For we know in part and we
prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect
disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought
like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I
put childish ways behind me." (1Cor 13.9-11)
To be fulfilled by the service
that transcends our humanity!
"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who,
being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God
something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the
very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness."
(Phil
2.5-7)
"There are differences of gifts,
but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but
the same Lord. And there are differences of workings, but it is
the same God working all things in all. But to each one is given
the showing forth of the Spirit to our profit." (1Cor 12.4-7) (NKJV)
To discern Christ corporatively!
"For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ."
(Eph 4.12) (NKJV)
"...
Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the
savior." (Eph 5.23)
"The body is a unity, though it is made up of many parts; and
though all its parts are many, they form one body.
So it
is with Christ." (1Cor 12.12)
"Now the body is not made up of
one part but of many." (1Cor 12.14)
"Let us therefore make every
effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification."
(Rom14.19)
"So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts,
try to excel in gifts that build up the church."
(1Cor 14.12)
To have a covenant with the local
Church!
"If he refuses to listen to them,
tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the
church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector. I
tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in
heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in
heaven." (Mat 18.17-18)
"For everyone who eats and drinks
without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks
judgment on himself." (1Cor 11.29)
"not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one
another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of
the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins," (Heb
10.25-26) (NKJV)
To take up the responsibility of
expanding the Lord Jesus’ Kingdom!
"Therefore go and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit," (Mat 28.19)
To cooperate with Christian churches in the
purpose of the New Covenant in Christ Jesus!
"For we are God’s fellow workers;..." (1Cor 3.9) |