Ministry Essential #9: A Commitment to Each Other
We are a group of Christ-followers who intentionally live out what it means to be the family of God, submitting to each other, willingly accountable, and genuinely caring for those who are called to our common work.
We want to be a group of people who, in an act of our own wills, become what the body of Christ should be – people who hurt for one another, people who care for one another, people who confront one another, and people who have honest, clean, and pure relationships because we have submitted to each other.
We hold dear that we are equal, that a person doing children’s ministry in Kentucky is as important as someone doing inner-city ministry in Miami, that even our longevity – how many years we are at the mission – is not the measure of our success. The measure of our success is whether or not we care for one another and whether or not we really exemplify what it means to be the body of Christ.
We will willingly accept the authority of those who are charged with general leadership, and we will submit to honest and fair accountability so that our ministry is using the resources God has given to us in the most effective way possible.
We will hurt with those who hurt, we will mourn with those who mourn, and we will rejoice with those who rejoice. We are committed to each other.