Our Mission Is Grounded In The Written Word Of God.

Our mission is grounded in the written Word of God, which has been given to us by divine revelation. If what we call "prophetic ministry" is not thoroughly grounded in the Word of God, we have surely abandoned our God-given foundation for mission and we have forfeited the right to speak in His Name. What do we have to say to the present day? What do we have to say to guide people towards the future? Unless our faith is firmly rooted in what God has spoken to us in Scripture, we are making it up as we go along. Our talk about relevance has taken on a life of its own. We have forgotten that the call to be faithful must take priority over the clamour for relevance. God calls us to "ask for the old paths." He calls us to "walk in the good way" (Jeremiah 6:16). Old doesn't necessarily mean better. New is not to be written off just because it's new. In a single verse, we have a very thought-provoking combination - "the old paths" and "the good way." In our mission, we must take care that we do not forget that we are called to "contend earnestly for the faith once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3).