mission



MISSION


LOVING (PLEASING) GOD

Godly Living. Oneness Driven. Biblical Lifestyle.
 

As born-again (Holy Spirit filled) children of God (through Jesus), our lives should reveal (produce proof, evidence of) a loving-pleasing (trusting, obeying) relationship with God. We are imperfect (flawed) but forgiven, yet we are truly (genuinely, wholeheartedly) living to love-please God.
 
Along this unrivaled/unequaled relationship journey with God (through Jesus), it's profoundly apparent (in both Old & New Testament Scriptures) that God does not need our help, yet He desires our sincere/authentic participation.
 
Our relational walk with God is not about Him doing all the work, but rather it's both God doing His work (His part) in/through us, and us doing our work (our part) to do God's Will in us & onto others. God continually & perfectly (through infinite-unfathomable ways) does His Will in/through us, while we continually yet imperfectly submit-surrender-choose-embrace-commit-desire-strive-hope-pray to do God's Will in us & onto others. An intimate (loving-pleasing) relationship with God is a partnership.
 
The journey is to grow-mature-change-imitate-reflect Jesus (abide/continue/remain in Him). The goal is to genuinely have a loving-pleasing (trusting, obeying, oneness) relationship with God The Father, God The Son, God The Spirit. As well as a loving-unified relationship with all God's born-again (Spirit filled) children in Jesus. And loving others as ourselves.
 
 
 
Do you really know who jesus is, and what jesus did for you?
 
Do you willingly-faithfully embrace god's love, truth, grace, mercy, forgiveness, promises, desires, ways, life (through jesus)?
 
Are you truly a child-friend-lover of god (through jesus), or are you a result of yourself, someone else, something else?



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VISION


Together we embrace the Holy Bible (God's Supernatural Words) as our Owners Manual (the Ultimate Authoritative Guide) for our way of life (Loving-Pleasing God, Godly Living/Oneness Driven/Biblical Lifestyle).
  
Together we love-please God (trust-obey-honor Him) with our entire being. God's Ways, His Holiness in us (our thoughts, intentions, motives, imaginations, desires, emotions, feelings, assumptions, perspectives, priorities, values, beliefs, words, actions).
  
Together we love and serve our brothers/sisters in Jesus as He loved us - oneness, unity, purity, encouragement, correction, discipline (all of these working in harmony together).
 
Together we love, serve, rightly impact people (unselfishly seek the best/higher good for others), and share Jesus with them (so they may come to know/trust/love/obey God).
 
Together we enhance the wellbeing of people, animals, plants, planet, and food. God amazingly designed vital interconnected-interdependent (mutually beneficial) relationships among Himself, people, and nature - for the good/prosperity of all.
  
Together we create a proper (God-honoring) fashion, music, and media culture that profoundly engages & impacts the world toward God's Desires.
 
Together we deny self (fully submit-surrender to God, wholeheartedly commit to His Perfect Love/Will), embrace sacrificial love, humility, rejection, loss, suffering, persecution, and even death, as we follow (reflect/imitate) Jesus.
 
Together we endure, persevere, overcome. We live victoriously (rule over self/sin/world/satan) - by faith (trust), love (obedience), grace, mercy, truth, promises, wisdom, strength, power, blessings, and more that have already been abundantly and freely given to us from God.
  
Together we walk with our Master, Creator, Intelligent Designer, Father, Brother, Best Friend, Most Beloved (God). Loving what He loves (good/true) and hating what He hates (evil/false). Loving-Pleasing-Delighting God.
 
 
 
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Jesus said to him,
"I Am the [only] Way [to God] and the [real] Truth and the [real] Life;
 no one comes to the Father but through Me."
 John 14:6
 
 
For there is [only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and mankind, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom [a substitutionary sacrifice to atone] for all, the testimony given at the right and proper time.
1 Timothy 2:5-6
 
 
For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God [proclaiming the Father's own message]; for God gives the [gift of the] Spirit without measure [generously and boundlessly]! The Father loves the Son and has given and entrusted all things into His hand.
He who believes and trusts in the Son and accepts Him [as Savior] has eternal life [that is, already possesses it]; but he who does not believe the Son and chooses to reject Him, [disobeying Him and denying Him as Savior] will not see [eternal] life, but [instead] the wrath of God hangs over him continually.
 
 
For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but that the world might be saved through Him. Whoever believes and has decided to trust in Him [as personal Savior and Lord] is not judged [for this one, there is no judgment, no rejection, no condemnation]; but the one who does not believe [and has decided to reject Him as personal Savior and Lord] is judged already [that one has been convicted and sentenced], because he has not believed and trusted in the name of the [One and] only begotten Son of God [the One who is truly unique, the only One of His kind, the One who alone can save him].
John 3:16-18
 
 
For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God; not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].
Ephesians 2:8-9
 
 
For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift].
For the Law was given through Moses, but grace [the unearned, undeserved favor of God] and truth came through Jesus Christ.
 
 
But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the right [the authority, the privilege] to become children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name-
For you [who are born-again have been reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified and] are all children of God [set apart for His purpose with full rights and privileges] through faith in Christ Jesus.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
John 1:12; Galatians 3:26; Ephesians 5:1
 
 
In Him, you also, when you heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation, and [as a result] believed in Him, were stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit [the One promised by Christ] as owned and protected [by God].
The Spirit is the guarantee [the first installment, the pledge, a foretaste] of our inheritance until the redemption of God's own [purchased] possession [His believers], to the praise of His glory.
 
 
In fact under the Law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness [neither release from sin and its guilt, nor cancellation of the merited punishment].
He [Jesus Christ] went once for all into the Holy Place [the Holy of Holies of heaven, into the presence of God], and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, having obtained and secured eternal redemption [that is, the salvation of all who personally believe in Him as Savior]. For if the sprinkling of [ceremonially] defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a [burnt] heifer is sufficient for the cleansing of the body, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal [Holy] Spirit willingly offered Himself unblemished [that is, without moral or spiritual imperfection as a sacrifice] to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the ever living God?
For this reason He [Jesus Christ] is the Mediator and Negotiator of a new covenant [that is, an entirely new agreement uniting God and man], so that those who have been called [by God] may receive [the fulfillment of] the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has taken place [as the payment] which redeems them from the sins committed under the obsolete first covenant.
 
 
For you know that you were not redeemed from your useless [spiritually unproductive] way of life inherited [by tradition] from your forefathers with perishable things like silver and gold, but [you were actually purchased] with precious blood, like that of a [sacrificial] lamb unblemished and spotless, the priceless blood of Christ.
 
 
Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
The Father loves the Son and has given and entrusted all things into His [Jesus'] hand.
All things have been handed over to Me [Jesus the Son] by My Father; and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Son except the Father; and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son [deliberately] wills to reveal Him.
Just as You [God the Father] have given Him [God the Son - Jesus] power and authority over all mankind, [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him [to be His—permanently and forever].
which He [God the Father] produced in Christ when He raised Him [Jesus Christ] from the dead and seated Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion [whether angelic or human], and [far above] every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and world but also in the one to come.
Matthew 28:18, John 3:35, Matthew 11:27, John 17:2, Ephesians 1:20–21
 
 
Now brothers and sisters, let me remind you [once again] of the good news [of salvation] which I preached to you, which you welcomed and accepted and on which you stand [by faith]. By this faith you are saved [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain [just superficially and without complete commitment].
For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to [that which] the Scriptures [foretold], and that He was buried, and that He was [bodily] raised on the third day according to [that which] the Scriptures [foretold],
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
 
 
but these have been written so that you may believe [with a deep, abiding trust] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God; and that by believing [and trusting in and relying on Him] you may have life in His name.
 
 






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