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STAFF PICTURE COMING SOON
Greenville Norton Hill UMC Staff
The Mission & Ministry of the Church
We are the
disciples of Christ. We are the Church. The church is a
fellowship, the people of God, the body of Christ.
God has made Christ the head of the church and given him all
authority in heaven and on earth. Christ has chose us
The source of our power is the Holy Spirit,
which is the Spirit of the living Christ, who dwells within and
leads us to the truth.
We are called to be witnesses to Christ and
to the glory of God. We are to go everywhere and be salt,
light and leaven for the world. We are to be the working hands
of Christ.
As Christians, each of us is commanded to
love God with all our being and to love our neighbor as ourself.
We are called to be good stewards of our time, our talent and our
resources. We are asked to believe in Christ, to imitate him
by keeping his commandments and doing his works, to pray in his
name, to give thanks to him, and to live for the praise of his
glory.
Our fellowship in Christ enables us to
support and reinforce each other as we come to understand the will
of the Lord and become filled with the Spirit. We work
together joyfully, equipping ourselves for our ministry in the
church and in the world.
Our ministry to the world is to witness by
word and deed through lives of love, to bring Christ to the world
and to bring the world to Christ. Amen.
This
statement, based on The New Testament, was written by members
of the United Methodist Church of Greenville & Norton Hill on
January 24, 1973.
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