our mission
Our mission as Methodist Christians
Our Mission
Methodism endorses many dimensions and methods of Christian mission. In particular it affirms that mission includes:
- telling the good news of Jesus
- calling people to faith in Jesus Christ and to Christian discipleship
- caring for individual people and communities
- sharing the task of education and social and spiritual development
- struggling for a just world
- being alongside the poor
- becoming friends with people of different cultures and faiths
- caring for the earth
- building partnerships with other churches and other groups who share some of our mission aims
Our Covenant
Once a year, all Methodists reaffirm their covenant (or agreement) with God, and offer themselves for service in God's Kingdom. They usually use the words of this covenant prayer to do this.
I am no longer my own but yours.
Put me to what You will,
Rank me with whom You will,
Put me to doing,
Put me to suffering;
Let me be employed for You,
Or laid aside for You,
Exalted for You,
Or brought low for You;
Let me be full,
Let me be empty,
Let me have all things,
Let me have nothing:
I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal.
And now, glorious and blessed God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
You are mine and I am Yours.
Amen
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