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For Seekers Church, mission groups are the focal point for living out our commitments to spiritual growth (the journey inward), mission (the journey outward) and community (the life of Seekers Church). For us, mission groups carry the seeds of the destiny of humankind. We believe that the future depends in large part on how God acts through faithful, committed groups like these around the world.
At Seekers Church, we believe God calls each of us to an active partnership, to be co-creators of God’s realm here on Earth. Young or old; regardless of experience, skills or education; despite our past successes or failures -- God gives each of us a call. This call comes through a sense of awe and mystery as we live into a growing relationship with Christ. It is a persistent, costly commitment to give ourselves to the task of bringing peace and justice to those in need. At the same time, once we accept God’s call, God’s gift to us is that this call leads to a life of love in service. Concretely, God's call is a deep, inescapable desire to transform the world and the church. It is a desire placed by God in the heart of each of us to be servants to others and stewards of God’s creation.
In Seekers Church, we understand that a mission group is an important place to live out God’s call. It is an expression of the Body of Christ as described in the New Testament. That is, a mission group is a committed group of believers in which Christ is resident and present. Because of this, we believe that the mission group is the place of deepest belonging to the Body of Christ that is available to us in this community. For its members, the mission group has the power to convey God’s forgiveness. It is our primary structure for spiritual formation.
We sustain the life of our community, and support ministry in the wider world through mission groups. Support for the life of Seekers Church includes core activities like our worship life and spiritual formation of adults and children through education and retreat. Through other mission groups, we participate in "corporate" missions that serve the needs of the world and we support individuals who are called into their vocation as ministry.
Once a mission group has been called into being and its call has been affirmed by the Stewards of Seekers Church, the group has the authority, and the responsibility, to lead the community in living out its call.
The Call of Seekers Church sets the foundation for our mission group life. Mission groups are the key to how we live out the core of our call to be Church, which is
to be a “Seekers community” which comes together in weekly worship rooted in the Biblical faith, with shared leadership; and disperses with a common commitment to understand and implement Christian servanthood in the structures in which we live our lives.
(Find our Call at Appendix A.)
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