Our Church’s Purpose Monday, Jan 12 2009 

Ecclessiology and Uncategorized Jason Robertson 10:01 pm

Our Vision: “Our church exists to exalt Christ and manifest His Kingdom through the power of the Spirit to the glory of the Father as His covenant people.”

Our Mission: It is our mission that our church would become a community that is being freed and transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ, is learning to worship God as His sons and daughters, and is bringing the gospel to bear on people personally, socially, and culturally by word, deed, and community that God’s glory may be revealed.

Our Strategy: Our church will accomplish her mission and fulfill her vision as we receive His grace through the Word and Sacraments, as we edify one another through by serving in the Body of Christ, and as we worship Christ in spirit and truth through praise and adoration. (more…)

 

Affirmation of Baptism Thursday, Nov 20 2008 

Ecclessiology Jason Robertson 1:48 am

Christian Baptism is a sovereign New Covenant ordinance of the Lord in which repentant believers submit themselves to immersion in water in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit at the hands of an authorized disciple. This act is a sign of believer’s faith in the Lordship of Christ; of union with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection; of being grafted into Christ; of remission of sins; of walking in newness of life; and of their belonging to the new people of God — the true Israel. It is also (more…)

 

Affirmation of the Church Saturday, Sep 27 2008 

Ecclessiology Jason Robertson 12:35 am

The elders of Murrieta Valley Church believe in the one universal Church, composed of all those, in every time and place, who are chosen in Christ and united to Him through faith by the Spirit in one Body, with Christ Himself as the all- supplying, all- sustaining, all- supreme, and all-authoritative Head (1). We believe that the ultimate purpose of the Church is to glorify God (2) in the everlasting and ever-increasing gladness of worship (3).

We believe it is God’s will that the universal Church find expression in local churches (4) in which baptized believers covenant together to hear the Word of God proclaimed (5), to engage in corporate worship (6), to practice the ordinances of baptism (7) and the Lord’s Supper (8), to build each other’s faith through the manifold ministries of love (9), to hold each other accountable in the obedience of faith through Biblical discipline (10), and to engage in local and world evangelization (11). All local (more…)

 

What Do We Call It? Tuesday, Aug 26 2008 

Ecclessiology Jason Robertson 12:37 am

What do we call it: The Lord’s Supper, an Ordinance, Sacrament, or Communion? This question is common. So let me try to answer it.

First, take a look at the 1689 Baptist Confession and notice the four things I emphasized in bold-italics:

CHAPTER 30 – Paragraph 1. The supper of the Lord Jesus was instituted by him the same night wherein he was betrayed, to be observed in his churches, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance, and showing to all the world the sacrifice of himself in his death, confirmation of the faith of believers in all the benefits thereof, their spiritual nourishment, and growth in him, their further engagement in, and to all (more…)