Attitudes to mission, evangelism & outreach…

Does your church have a core value or guiding princple for evangelism or outreach or local mission?

My church is re-thinking its mission & vision for the next year and so I am curious to see how other churches place evangelism. After a quick scan of some church websites I discovered that there are not many which clearly detail outreach projects they initiate or are apart of nor are their many church websites that share their vision for local mission or if they do it is almost a side note.

I wonder how indicative this is of the churches’ attitude to missions and the place it has in their calendars, budgets and life of their church?

Can you pick which churches the following statements about outreach come from?

Missions is more than just a one-time event or an experience; rather missions is a lifestyle. This means that in our homes, neighborhoods, schools, work places and in every other area of our lives, we are to carry ourselves as ministers of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18-20; 1 Peter 2:4-9)… the Church as a whole has been called to seek the good of the city (Jeremiah 29: 5-8). We seek the welfare of the city by focusing our corporate missions efforts on improving the health, safety, education and commercial opportunities available within the city. Check who

The foreign missions work and outreach ministries of our church aim to glorify Jesus by gathering more and more worshipers. They are all built on the reality that outreach is not the ultimate mission, nor the primary end of our church. Worship is. Foreign missions and outreach ministries exist because worship doesn’t. In other words, outreach ministries and missions work is the means to glorifying God by more and more worship. Check who

We are…part of a Church that seeks to steward God’s message of freedom for local, national and global communities with personal involvement, example and generosity. Check Who

God desires all people to be saved through trusting in Christ and submitting to his Lordship, obeying him in all things. We are committed to equipping people and encouraging them to present the Lord Jesus by word and deed. (1 Tim 2:3-5, Mt 28:19, 1 Peter 3:15) Check Who

we don’t want to live in a “holy huddle”, isolated from the world outside, so we run activities and events that enable us to connect with and serve the community around us. Check Who