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VISION STATEMENT Jesus For All People exist "To glorify God by Extending and Expanding the Kingdom of God through planting multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural Churches, Campus Ministries and Cross-Cultural missions through the Power and Person of the Holy Spirit in Germany, Europe and the world." CORE VALUES JESUS FOR ALL PEOPLE has five ministry emphases which are known as the “CORE VALUES”: KINGDOM AND LORDSHIP WORSHIP FAMILY EVANGELISM DISCIPLESHIP LEADERSHIP |
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 download Vision.PPT KINGDOM AND LORDSHIP means "Christ-centeredness" to Jesus For All People. We see Lordship as proclaiming that Jesus Christ is now the center and king of a person’s life and he or she is committed to obeying God’s Word and following His will instead of his or her own as per (Luke 6:46-49). Jesus For All People values Kingdom and Lordship because they place emphasis on the Biblical statement, “no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11). To the believers, Lordship establishes that Jesus Christ is both Savior, Lord and king (Acts 2:36) – God incarnate, the Word made flesh (John 1:14) who took the form of a servant to reconcile us to the Father (2 Corinthians 5:18) so that we might have eternal life (John 3:16). As the “Word made flesh,” the words Jesus spoke thus have ultimate authority in the life of every believer. Jesus For All People concludes from this the belief that "in everything He must have the supremacy" (Col 2:18). We see this Kingship and Lordship as involving not just in church matters, but all of life; not just being in effect on Sunday, but in effect Monday through Sunday as well. WORSHIP means We believe Worship should be Spiritual, Heartfelt and Life Giving (1Peter 2:4-5,9; Romans 12:1;John 4:23-24). Everything we do must be birth out of Intimacy with God. Worship is “spiritual intimacy with God." This Intimacy means being with God, Enjoying His Presence. Worship Is what we give to God as an expression of gratitude and positive response to His Eternal Love and Goodness. that a life of Worship produces Life Giving ministries to people whom God loves. Everything we do in our lives must be an expression of our worship unto God, therefore it will be purposeful, passionate and powerful. FAMILY is a core value because Jesus For All People believes that, after your relationship with God, our relationship with our family is the highest priority in our lives as believers. The Bible says: "Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain" (Psalm 127:1, NIV), and Jesus For All People interprets this to mean that the priorities in a Christian’s life should be: -your relationship with God; -your relationship with your spouse; -your relationship with your children; -your career and/or ministry. JESUS FOR ALL PEOPLE also values family because we believe ministry should be “multi-generational.” Our God is the God of Family Generations, He often refers to Himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That is, We believe that success is when the vision and values of a ministry are passed down from generation to generation. EVANGELISM is seen as the core value of "reaching lost people". Jesus For All People values evangelism because we believe lost people matter to God according to 2 Peter 3:9" and we have been called to imitate Jesus Christ, who came to “seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10, NASB). The Bible says that God has called each of us to the "ministry of reconciliation" and has given us a "message of reconciliation“(2 Cor 5:18-19). We interpret reconciliation is first and foremost a relational word (rather than a theological word), then people, especially "lost" people, matter to God. So as we see it, to value evangelism is to value relationships with people, especially people who "do not know God". For this reason, Jesus For All People's goal is to grow its churches primarily through "lost people being saved", as opposed to those who are already Christians transferring into our churches, and new churches being established. DISCIPLESHIP: A disciple is someone who follows Jesus (Luke 9:23, NIV). Jesus For All People interprets discipleship as "helping people follow the Lord Jesus, and love God, their natural and church families, and the lost"(Matt 22:37-40). In Jesus For All People our definition of Discipleship is, “Discipleship is the process whereby men and women follow Christ, are trained in His Word and the Spirit, grow to maturity and learn to replicate themselves in others”. In other words, Discipleship means following and becoming more like Jesus Christ, not the person who is discipling you. Jesus For All People values discipleship because Christ's last command to all Christians was to "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you" (Matthew 28:19-20, NIV). Jesus For All People views this command as their commission to be committed to being disciples and making disciples. LEADERSHIP Jesus For All People believes every Christian is called to be a leader and seeks to raise up Christian leaders in all walks of life -- leaders in the family, in business, in government, in education, in the military, in professional callings, in the media, in arts, and in athletics. Jesus For All People's goal is to encourage "servant leadership" which is "character-based, Christ-centered leadership that is rooted in biblical kingdom principles". We believe that Biblical leadership emphasizes "service, not glory" in line with their understanding of Mark 10;33-35; encourages "guidance, not control" (2 Timothy 2:2, NIV); and is about "relationship, not rules" (1 Corinthians 4:15-16, NIV). The primary avenue for training leaders in Jesus For All People is SALT (School of Advance Leadership and Training). Because the ministry also has a desire to reach the future leaders of the nations, Jesus For All People has a vision to reach the next generation of leaders that are currently on all school, colleges and university campuses. Jesus For All People believes in the principle: “Change the Schools, Change the World.”  |
