Klondike as a Missional Church
“The size of a church is the size of it’s heart!”
Mark 6:34: “Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep not having a shepherd.”
Klondike Church seeks to be a missional family of believers. We believe that the Gospel is not to be immobile or stagnant, but active and transformative both in our church family, in our community, and around the world.
John Calvin once wrote, “When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all?” This desire, moved by the same compassion Jesus demonstrates, should lead us to support missions in other countries but also be a missional church at home.
This means our faith is lived outside of the doors of the church Monday to Friday in our community. We must engage the culture (be in the world) with the love of Christ, ministries of mercy, and the Gospel itself while being careful not to be absorbed by the culture (not of the world). We must be the Church in Word and talk but also deed and truth (I John 3:18). Here are some other guiding principles we are seeking to live as a community of believers:
At Klondike Church, it is…
- Not simply how many people come to our church services, but how many people our church serves.
- Not simply how many people attend our ministry, but how many people have we equipped for ministry.
- Not simply how many people minister inside the church, but how many minister outside the church.
- Not simply how many ministries we start, but how many ministries we help.
- Not simply how we are connecting with our culture but how we are engaging our culture.
- Not simply how effective we are with our mission, but how faithful we are to our God.
- Not simply how much we immerse ourselves in the Biblical text, but how faithfully we live in it in the world.
- Not simply being concerned about how our country is doing, but being concern for the welfare of other countries. Caring about all peoples should be important.
- Not simply how many people we bring into the kingdom, but how much of the kingdom we bring to the earth.
William Booth: “You’ve enjoyed yourself in religion long enough. You have had pleasant feelings, songs, meetings, prospects. There’s been much human happiness, clapping of hands, much of Heaven on earth. Now go to God and tell Him you are prepared as far as necessary to turn your back upon it all, and that you are willing to spend the rest of your days grappling with these perishing multitudes, cost you what it may.”
Oswald J. Smith: “The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.”
J.C. Ryle: “The highest form of selfishness is that of the person who is content to go to heaven alone.”
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