Wading into the CrossCurrent: Part 1
The launch team of The CrossCurrent (TXC) has been meeting together for the last month and a half and it has been an amazing ride so far. The launch team is the core group of this new church and is comprised of 6 families in total. We will all be heavily involved in the different areas of the church in order to get it healthily off the ground.
Our mission is “to become people who contagiously follow Jesus with our whole lives.” We realized that this was a nice statement but that it didn’t hold much weight if we didn’t have a way to measure how someone could “contagiously follow Jesus with their whole life”. So we came up with a simple formula. If we want to know if we are contagious or not (In regards to the mission of TXC), we can look at all 5 of our core values and see which ones are in operation in our lives. If all 5 are in operation, you could say we are 100% contagious.
Our first core value is “Missional Living”. When we say this we are implying that, as Christians, we are to be missionaries to the surrounding culture in which we live. We believe that we are to proclaim the unchanging truths of Scripture in a continually changing culture and our aim is to do this in a way that makes sense to the people we are trying to reach. We need to be students of the culture in which we live, just as an overseas missionary studies the culture in which they are going into, so we can understand how best to communicate the gospel and see peoples’ lives changed by God. As missionaries to this culture, we are on God’s mission of bringing people back to Him. In order to do this, we have to go to where the people are and not sit back, expecting them to just show up. We want to be actively involved in the community of mission with the various events that go on just to show that we care about the community and our reason for being there is to help and make it a better place for everyone. As we do this, we are trusting that God will be in the middle of our conversations with the people we come in contatct with and that people will be drawn to him because of our contagious faith.
This is the first part of the equation and needs to be followed by the other four core values which we will look at in the coming weeks. Until then…
Dream Huge!
