Mission
Accomplishing the Vision: An overview
The heart of our vision is for authentic disciples to be involved in the lives of people who don’t know Jesus. While this sounds pretty simple, there are a lot of components that need to come together to accomplish this goal. We have developed a diagram that outlines the three major components. The diagram is not a complete description, but hopefully it helps to convey the idea.
1. The Unified Church:
Our mission begins with a Unified Church. Scripture teaches clearly that when the church truly loves one another then the outside world will see God displayed. (1 John 4:12). A God given mission can not be accomplished without the church genuinely loving one another and living as a family involved in each others lives. If the church is not unified then the ministry model falls apart for one simple reason; the outside world will be unable to see God in us.
2. The Unchurched Community:
To truly impact our community, we must first understand its culture. The people of Wilmington are extremely busy and often overextended, sadly making little time for spiritual matters. While we can do very little about the patterns of our culture, we have the responsibility to adapt our approach in order to lead people to God.
3. The Impact Zone:
An impact zone can happen almost anywhere and anytime in life. As examples, Impact Zones can happen through work, school, sports, or children. Our strategy as a church is to not only leverage existing impact zones, but also intentionally creating impact zones based on opportunity and the giftedness of the individuals in our Church.
Digging Deeper: The Mission
Vision answers the question - “What does God want us to accomplish?” Once we have understood the vision (Take church to the unchurched) we must then answer the question - “How do we accomplish the vision?” That answer is our mission and strategy.
We have divided up our approach into four distinct steps that make up our Mission.
We will accomplish our vision by:
- Challenging attendees to authentic discipleship
- Offering irresistible gatherings
- Aligning with the activities of the community
- Sending an equipped church to love the community
