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Recently Pastor Rob asked me to re-type our church’s Distinctives and Objectives. I am not sure I ever read them before but as I was typing I was blown away at how clearly they communicated our hope in Christ and His purpose of the local church. I love our local body and one of the things that I love the most about our little church is how God’s word is lifted up and given the place it rightly deserves.
Still, as I was typing I was thinking, “why don’t I read this more often and use this gift to equip me to serve this body better? Why isn’t this clear and deliberate purpose of our body easily available to everyone?” Clearly one of the reasons it was not easily available was because I was still in the process of re-typing it. But I could see how easy it would be to re-type this gem, copy it, and place it on the back table…never to be seen again. So in the hope of rescuing this document from back-table-lostness I thought I would publish it here focusing on a different section each week so that we can read it together, think about it, think about it some more, and let it effect what happens in our body each day of the week.
So my friends, here is the introduction to the Distinctives and Objectives of Mount Rose Evangelical Free Church:
As the Word of God teaches the total sovereignty of God upon our lives, our purpose in meeting and continuing our fellowship as a local expression of the Church of Jesus Christ, Mount Rose Evangelical Free Church is committed to worship and glorify God in our corporate and individual lives, nurture spiritual growth and gifts through their exercise within our fellowship and equip its members for service and evangelism.
