Fri
Aug 20
2010
Pastor Martin Russell
Assistant to the Bishop
Nebraska Synod, ELCA
The church does not have a mission - the mission of God has a church! God is in charge of God’s mission to the world.
We do mission. Mission is the very identity of every Christian and every church. As Bishop deFreese likes to remind us, congregations should be ‘centers for mission’ both in local communities and worldwide. The world yearns for the life-giving message of Jesus. You, your congregation and all of us together as the Nebraska Synod are called to be Jesus’ partner in proclaiming the Gospel through word and deed. Our mission statement as a Nebraska Synod, “Together, we live love with the grace and courage of Jesus” unfolds this understanding.
