Church of England
Mission Statement Explanation
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- to know more of God
- Most people have some awareness of God. Our aim is to encourage everyone to explore and to deepen our understanding of God, beginning from what we know, or think we know, now.
- to experience more of God
- Knowledge of God is a good start, but we believe we need more than understanding. We believe in a God who can be experienced, in many different ways. Our aim is to explore our experiences of God, together, and to encourage one another to experience more of God in a deeper way day by day.
- to love each other
- Our knowledge and experience of God mean nothing unless they begin to work themselves out in our daily lives. We aim to show our relationship with God in the way we love one another - in the fellowship of the Church family, because we are all brothers and sisters in God.
- to serve each other
- Loving one another means serving one another in practical ways. This means thinking of others before ourselves, putting ourselves out for others. We are not perfect (far from it)! But we do have something to aim at.
- in the community
- Our loving and caring must not be limited to the Church community. That would be selfish, and would not reflect the God who gives himself for the whole world. Our loving and care is to be excercised in and among the wider community - both locally (where we live, work, spend our leisure time, etc.) and more widely (in our Diocese, nationally, globally). All our love and care is done not in our own strength, but in the strength God supplies.
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