Mission
In the Gospel, we are saved by Christ, to His community, FOR HIS MISSION.
God, by nature, is a sending God. In the Old Testament, God the Father sent prophets, priests, and kings to lead His people. In the New Testament, God the Father sent the perfect Prophet, the better King, the Great High Priest in the person of His Son Jesus Christ to again lead His people. In sending Jesus on mission to rescue and redeem sinful humanity, Jesus in turn called and sent His disciples to go and make more disciples ("Just as the Father sent me, so send I you." Jn 20:21) Jesus then ascended into heaven and sent His Spirit who empowers His disciples to be sent on mission.
This is the paradigm shift needed today: God's Church doesn't have mission...God's mission has a Church. In other words, the Church is not merely an institution that sends out missionaries...the Church is itself a community of sent missionaries. Missions is the reason the Church exists.
Living on mission as believers means orienting our life around our identity in Christ as God’s missionary people. It’s living life in a way that depends on the Spirits power and demands a gospel explanation.
At GCC, we seek to make disciples in the Wenatchee Valley through proclaiming, displaying, and explaining the Good News of Jesus Christ in word and deed. We desire to increasingly think and strategize and live as the missionary people of God...foreigners in a strange land, reaching an indigenous people group, with the message of the gospel. We do this together through the missionary teams of our GOSPEL COMMUNITIES.
(Matt. 28:18-20; John 20:21; Acts 1:8; 2 Cor. 5:17-21)
