Our Mission

Love One
Another

Through faith in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ we are adopted into the family of God (Eph. 1:5). The gospel not only gives us a new relationship with our Father in heaven, we have new relationships with our brothers and sisters in Christ in the family of God, the church (Eph. 2:18-22).

Jesus said people would know we are his disciples by the way we love each other (John 13:35). This is why we want to be a community of believers deeply engaged with each other in relationships of sincere, Christ-like love: sharing our lives and resources, carrying each other’s burdens, bearing with each others weakness, and speaking God’s Word to each other so that we grow to be like Christ—praying for, serving one another, and forgiving one another (Rom. 12:10, Gal. 6:2, Col. 3:16, Eph. 4:32). We want to be a community in which the world sees the transforming power of the gospel on display through our love, relationships, godliness and commitment to each other.

Make
Disciples

Tens of thousands of people in Greater Gaithersburg live without the hope of the gospel. Billions of people around the world lack access to gospel witness. Being a disciple of Jesus Christ means joining him in his mission to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10, Matt. 4:19).

Jesus has commanded us to make disciples of all nations. This starts in our city and pushes us out to parts of the world that have not yet heard the good news (Acts 1:8; Matthew 24:14).

Making disciples of all nations involves both proclaiming the gospel to the lost (and baptizing them into the faith) as well as teaching believers to obey all that Christ commanded so that they mature in their faith and grow to be more like Jesus (Matt. 28:18-20; Col.1:28; Eph. 4:15). Both of these vital aspects of making disciples are the calling of every Christian. We want every member of our church—from old to young—to be a disciple who makes disciples.