Our mission is to do the work of Jesus! What is and what was the work of Jesus! In the Gospel according to Matthew, “Jesus was going about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people” (Matthew 4:23, NASB). Again, in Matthew 9:35, NASB, “Jesus was going about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.” Thus, by doing what Jesus did people are saved in accordance with Romans 10:9-10 and baptized in water in accordance with I Peter 3:18-22. Included in our mission is helping equip the saints for the work of ministry or service! (See Ephesians 4:4-17, especially verses 11 and 12.) The Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul has told us to do this! So then, this is our Mission. Finally, included in our mission is to practice pure and undefiled religion, which means to visit orphans and widows in their distress and to keep ourselves unstained by or from the world! (See James 1:27 with I John 15-17, NASB.)
The Christian Church In Philadelphia sees herself as being one of the most effective local churches in doing the work of Jesus and equipping the saints for the work of the ministry and/or service and increasing in this work as more and more people see the vision and become participants through growing spiritually by putting aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisy and envy and slander and as newborn babes long for the pure milk of the word so there will be growth in respect to salvation (I Peter 2:1-3, NASB). Further, we see more people being saved, filled with the Holy Spirit and healed from sickness and disease. (See Matthew 9:35; Mark 16:15-16, 18b; Acts 2:1-4 and James 1:19-22.)
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