Mission and Vision statements are created to define and point a group in a specific direction. They are vital to any organization, bringing blurry, vague ideas into focused clarity. As clear as a mission and vision may be, you’ll never know if you’re on course and making progress unless it can be measured.
Venture’s Mission: Engage those far from God with the Gospel of Jesus Christ to know and follow Him.
Venture’s Vision: Localize the movement of Christ’s Church throughout the counties on the western side of the Charlotte metro region and in people groups around the world that have no access to the Gospel.
At Venture, we use 6 Objectives to measure our progress:
Connect believers with other believers in Gospel-centered community.
Connect believers with nonbelievers to point them to Jesus.
Teach God’s Word and the Gospel it proclaims!
Inspire people on the worthiness of knowing and following Jesus.
Grow people in an abiding relationship with Jesus so they bear much fruit (discipleship).
Multiply Kingdom leaders who influence others to know and follow Christ.
Each of these objectives has measurable attributes that can be counted and corrected. They also repeatedly point us back to what is important…our Mission and Vision. While we focus on different Objectives in different seasons, we still keep the other five objectives in mind. They are the guardrails that keep us in our lane.
In February, we will focus on the Objective: GROW. The Bible is clear that we are to grow one another up so that we become fruit-bearing Christians. We are to grow into mature Christians who abide in Jesus, walking in step with the Spirit, and bear fruit, like what is listed in Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
ALSO IN THIS SERIES: Why & How We Do Ministry : Objectives– Click HERE to watch
The focus of this objective is that we are challenging each other and holding one another accountable as we take the next steps in our relationship with Jesus, which is producing real change in our personal lives. It is intentionality that prompts more intentionality. It is about replicating and reproducing what we are learning about Jesus.
We will be providing more content on ways to grow this month. One specific way is through your Life Groups. We encourage our group leaders to guide their members through a few simple exercises.
- Pair up people within your group (accountability partners) to discuss their personal devotions once per week, for the next month. They can discuss what they are reading, what God has been teaching them, and hold one another accountable to faithfully spend time in the Word.
- For these pairings, give your groups a specific topic to discuss each week. Have them share what they are reading, what the Lord is teaching them through that passage, a specific area Scripture is reshaping (an attitude that needs to change, service to others, letting go of something, etc).
Let’s give and receive the accountability that helps each other grow!