Our mission is four words: “Be disciples. Make disciples.”
Kingdom
Ekklesia exists for the King and His Kingdom (Revelation 19:16, Matthew 6:10, Luke 17:20-21). We believe our time, talents and resources are given to us so we can advance the Kingdom of God. Since we aren’t serving our own agendas, we take joy in serving those who may never return the favor (Luke 14:12-14). We regularly partner with a wide variety of churches and rejoice when people join their fellowships (John 17:20-23). It’s about His Kingdom, not ours!
Faith
Ekklesia walks by faith. With Christ we always achieve great things (John 15:5). Without Him we can do nothing (Ephesians 2:1-3). Jesus (and Jesus alone) has destroyed the power of sin. It is by faith in Him that we will live the radical, never-ending lives He has created us for (Ephesians 2:8-10, Colossians 1:15-20). Faith is the trust by which we enjoy the fullness of God’s impeccable leadership!
Pure Discipleship
Ekklesia is passionate about empowering people to live like Jesus (1 John 2:6). Jesus is calling the nations to be His disciples (Matthew 28:18-20). Disciples seek to walk, talk, think, feel, and act like their master. Even when Jesus tells us to do things we don’t want to do (Luke 9:57-62), we enthusiastically trust that He knows exactly what we need!
Go
Ekklesia is made of people who risk boldly in order to go and rescue the lost (Luke 15:1-7). Jesus never said, “Go build a church building and then wait for people to come to you.” Our mission is every tribe, tongue and nation (Acts 1:8, Revelation 7:9). We will go into our communities… and we will go to the ends of the earth to make disciples!
Crazy Love United
Ekklesia lavishes crazy love on every sinner who turns to follow Jesus (Luke 15:21-24), and even those who don’t (Mark 10:20-22, Matthew 5:43-47). We consider no human intrinsically better or worse than another. We follow Paul’s example: As far as we know, we are the worst sinners on the face of the earth (1 Timothy 1:15). We will live as a community united in love (Acts 2:42-47). Love is crazy. Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)!
Power
Ekklesia is excited that the Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power (1 Corinthians 4:20). Miracles propel the mission (Acts 1:8). We seek God’s power frequently through prayer, fasting, confession, the reading of Scripture and gathering together (Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:16-18, James 5:16, Matthew 4:4, Hebrews 10:24-25). We eagerly desire to heal the sick, cast out demons, prophesy, interpret tongues, etc… (John 14:12) though we exercise all gifts by the order of the Spirit and in submission to God’s Word (1 Corinthians 14:26-33)!
