Our Mission Is Empowered By The Living Spirit Of God.

Our mission is to communicate to this generation. We are not to be clones of the Early Church Fathers, the Reformers, the Puritans, Wesley, Whitfield, Spurgeon, Moody. All of that belongs to the past. We are in the present. Here, we must affirm our faith in the living Spirit of God. Where do we most sense the presence of the Spirit of God? We enter into the Lord's presence as we call upon His Name in prayer. As well as our commitment to the ministry of God's Word, there is to be a commitment to continuing to be faithful in prayer (Acts 6:4). How are we to come to God in prayer? - "We have a great High Priest ... Jesus the Son of God ... Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace ... " (Hebrews 4:14-16). The knowledge that Jesus Christ is our great High Priest encourages us to keep on praying. In an age where the methods can be become more important than the mission, we need to be reminded that "prayer is evangelism with all its carnal trappings shorn off" (William Still). That doesn't mean that we only need to speak to God. It does mean that our speaking to sinners should always be grounded in our speaking to the Saviour of sinners.