The
Mission Statement of the Methodist Church
The calling of the Methodist
Church is to respond to the gospel of God's love in Christ and to live out its
discipleship in worship and mission.
Worship in the Methodist Church is expressed in many ways. In worship the
Church
- gives praise to God in Christ through the Spirit
- opens itself to God's transforming love
- receives and reflects on the gospel of God's ways
in the world
- offers itself to share in God's costly action in
the world.
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.