Purpose Statement
Advancing The Kingdom has been given the Purpose of:
- Equipping the Saints with both the Fire of the Holy Spirit and the Word of the Living God, bringing the Empowerment of Heaven into the lives of the people ? So that the World may know that He is the Lord and there is no other.
- Challenging the Church to become a relevant expression of the Living God on the earth as it is in heaven through the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Building a vision in each disciple; That God builds and transforms a nation through the lives of those called by His name, that the power and glory of God be evident in every family relationship and in every occupation.
What is a Missionary
A missionary is essentially a social martyr, cut off from his roots, his stock, his blood, his land, his background, his culture.? He is destined to walk forever a stranger in a strange land.? He must be stripped?as naked as a human being can be, down to the very texture of his being.? St. Paul said Christ did not think being God was something to be clung to, but emptied himself taking the form of a slave.? He was stripped to the fiber of his being, to the innermost part of his spirit.? This is the truest meaning of poverty of? spirit.? This poverty of spirit is what is called for in a missionary, demanding that he divest himself of his very culture, so that he can be a naked instrument of the gospel to the cultures of the world.? (Vincent J. Donovan, “Christianity Rediscovered”, pg 144)
