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Know. Grow. Go.: The Mission of Port Charlotte United Methodist Church
Know Grow Go The Mission of Port Charlotte United Methodist Church Author:David deSilva At Port Charlotte United Methodist Church, we have adopted the mission statement: ?Know Christ. Grow more like Christ. Go to serve Christ.? This threefold mandate well captures three essential facets of living as disciples of Jesus. We need to learn more and more about Jesus as the revelation of God's own heart and character, and as the ultimate... more » teacher of the way to please God -- and we need to experience his fellowship. We need for Christ to come alive within us, transforming us from the inside out so that we become the "new person" that the Holy Spirit yearns to make of us. And we need to give ourselves over to Christ's ongoing work in the world, inviting people to himself and meeting them with the love that will begin the process of transformation in them. In this collection of sermons, the Rev. Dr. David deSilva explores the biblical foundations and scope of each of these three mandates, fleshing out the fuller Scriptural vision for what we will look like as we pursue a deeper knowledge of Christ, yield ourselves more and more to the Spirit's transforming work, and go forth in witness and service.« less