Christ Church is a church in Raytown
Jesus taught that we should seek first the kingdom of God and that our hearts follow what we treasure. When we treasure and seek first the kingdom our hearts end up in the same place and we share the same priorities.
The bible says to always give ourselves fully to the work of the Lord. When we share a vision for kingdom priorities being fleshed out in all of life, rather than just parts of life it multiplies our opportunities for ministry by removing the limitations of when and where we can do the Lord’s work, and takes the pressure off of meetings being our main source of life and church experience.
The new testament is littered with the language of togetherness. When we take ownership and responsibility for kingdom priorities being fleshed out in all of life, specifically in a way that insists on doing things together rather than on our own, it maximizes our impact, increases our joy, and lightens our load because we’re carrying it together.
In order to fight for the togetherness of seeking first the kingdom of God in all of life, we organize our church into what we call missional communities.
A missional community is a small family of believers committed to living out God’s mission together in everyday life, to particular people and places.
They are called missional communities because we believe that both concepts of mission and community are essential for maximum impact. Community without mission becomes selfish, codependent, and complacent. Mission without community forfeits one of the greatest apologetics for the gospel.
Each missional community aims to express our gospel identity as a family of missionary, servant, disciples:
In Christ we are sons of God which makes us family.
In Christ we are sent by God which makes us missionaries.
In Christ we belong to God which makes us servants.
In Christ we are saved and sourced by God which makes us disciples.
Our missional communities are where the life of our church happens. This is where we do counseling, prayer, deliverance, discipleship, and mission. These are the people who help us move, work on our houses with us, and babysit our kids. These are the people we party with, cry with, eat with, and study the bible with.
A missional community is not a weekly event on a specific night, but rather a people. Most of our missional communities do meet regularly on a specific night of the week, but our aim is for the majority of the life we experience and share together to take place outside of a weekly meeting. When, where, and how often a missional community meets is determined by what is necessary to do family, serving, mission, and discipleship well. And that looks different for different missional communities and can look different within a particular missional community based on the season it’s in.
We’re not passionate about missional communities. We’re passionate about the kingdom of God in all of life together. Missional communities are just the way we’ve chosen to flesh that out in our church. If missional communities ever get in the way of that, then we’ll stop doing them and organize our people in some other way.
We value glorifying God as the ultimate goal of God and man
We value finding our identity in the person and work of Jesus and declaring and displaying the good news of the kingdom to the church and the world
We value being sent by Jesus on mission to make disciples who make disciples and radically reorientating our lives around shared micro missions to particular people and places
We value being baptized or continually filled with the Holy Spirit for service, gospel witness, boldness, power, and spiritual gifts
We value faith expressing itself through love as indispensable for pleasing God, fulfillment of the greatest commandments, and the only thing that counts
We value liberating and empowering men and women through distinct, biblical, complementary gender roles.
We value the church as God’s primary means of earthly activity and being every expression of church described in the bible
These are the five things we do in our missional communities to reach unbelievers and the unchurched.
We pray for boldness to speak and ears to hear what is spoken.
We target unbelievers and unchurched professing believers.
We preach the gospel with words and back them up with our conduct. How can they believe unless they hear?
We show people what Jesus is like by exposing them to how we love one another in the church.
We make disciples through both informal small group teaching in familial relationships, and formal teaching in large group settings.
Join us at 10AM for fellowship and coffee.
Service starts promptly at 10:30AM.
11525 E 63rd St
Raytown, MO 64133