The Mission of the Church

The mission of the Church is to receive, preserve, and propagate the doctrines and ordinances of Jesus Christ. The Church is a religious society established and appointed by Him.

By His appointment the Church holding all things in common, is to form a body of Christian servants, united under one form of government by the profession of one faith, and the observance of the same rituals and ceremonies in service to God and His Kingdom of Heaven at hand.

The Church in its most general sense is also a community of the people gathered in free assemblies which form local congregations and conventions of congregations seeking the righteous ways of God.

Those dedicated ministers of the Church, unlike the ministers of other nations, are not to exercise authority one over the other but they are to serve.

The Church is to continue in the perfect law of liberty, returning every man to his possession, and every man to his family, doing good works in the observance of their common rituals and ceremonies including but not limited to: 1

Overseeing the needs of the community of Christians including the widows and orphans, 2

To serve and strengthen those that are weak, sick or those not whole, 3

To protect, to preserve and keep all things under the covering of the Messiah, 4

To officiate as a herald of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, 5

To appoint new ministers from those chosen by the people and the Father, 6

To measure the temple of God, and His living altar, and them that worship therein, 7

To reprove, rebuke, exhort, bind and loose by testimony and witness, 8

To preach and publish, and to serve the people who seek the Kingdom of God at hand.

 

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Leviticus 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

Malachi 4:5-6 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James 1:26-27 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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John 9:34... They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?...

Acts 6:1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Widows... chera 1) a widow 2) metaph. a city stripped of its inhabitants and riches is represented under the figure of a widow

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Matthew 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

Heal ... therapeuo 1) to serve, do service

Luke 10:9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

Luke 9:2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

Heal... iaomai 1) to cure, heal 2) to make whole the Sick.. astheneo 1) to be weak, feeble, to be without strength, powerless

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1 Corinthians 9:12 If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

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Preach... kerusso 1) to be a herald, to officiate as a herald 1a) to proclaim after the manner of a herald 1b) always with the suggestion of formality, gravity and an authority 3) used of the public proclamation.

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Acts 6:3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

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Revelation 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

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1 Timothy 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell [it] unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

Titus 1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

Titus 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell [it] unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.