Mission Statement


Purpose Statement - "Building a Great Church through the Great Commandment and the Great Commission..."

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind... Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments... Matthew 22:37-40.

"Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you... Matthew 28:19-20.


Our Mission Statement - To bring people to Jesus and to membership in His family... to develop them to Christ-like maturity by equipping them for their ministry in the church and their life's mission in the world, thereby bringing glory and honor to God's name...


The Five Purposes of Our Church

Purpose #1: Love the Lord with all your heart

The word that describes this purpose is worship. Our church exists to worship God. How do we love God with all our heart? By worshiping Him! It doesn't matter if we're by ourselves, with a small group, or with 100,000 people. When we express our love to God, we're worshiping. We don't worship out of duty; we worship because we want to. We enjoy expressing our love to God.

Purpose #2: Love your neighbor as yourself

The word we use to describe this purpose is ministry. Our church exists to minister to people. Ministry is demonstrating God's love to others by meeting their needs and healing their hurts in the name of Jesus. Our church is to minister to all kinds of needs: spiritual, emotional, relational, and physical. Jesus said that even a cup of cold water given in his name was considered as ministry and would not go unrewarded. Our church is ... "to equip the saints for the work of the ministry" (Eph. 4:12).

Purpose #3: Go and make disciples

This purpose we call evangelism. Our church exists to communicate God's Word. We are ambassadors for Christ, and our mission is to evangelize the world. The word go in the Great Commission is a present participle in the Greek text. it should read "as you are going." It is every member of Cathedral's responsibility to share the Good New wherever we go. We are to tell the whole world of Christ's coming, his death on the cross, his resurrection, and his promise to return.

Purpose #4: Baptizing them

In the Great Commission there are three active verbs: going, baptizing, and teaching. Why is baptism so important to warrant inclusion in Christ's Great Commission? It is because it symbolizes one of the purposes of the church: fellowship. Identification with the body of Christ. As Christians, we are called to belong, not just to believe. We are not to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to belong to Christ's family and be members of his body. Baptism is not only a symbol of salvation, it is a symbol of fellowship. It says to the world, "This person is now one of us!"

Purpose #5: Teaching them to obey

The word we commonly use to refer to this purpose is discipleship. Our church exists to edify, or educate, God's people. Discipleship is the process of helping people become more like Christ in their thoughts, feelings, and actions. This process begins when a person is born again and continues throughout the rest of their lives. "We continue to preach Christ to each person, using wisdom to warn and to teach everyone, in order to bring each one into God's presence as a mature person in Christ."

As the church we are called not only to reach people, but also to teach them. After someone has made a decision for Christ, he or she must be discipled. It is our church's responsibility to develop people to spiritual maturity... "until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ" (Eph. 4:12b-13).


Cathedral's Purpose Statement in Short

1. Magnify: We celebrate God's presence in worship.
2. Mission: We communicate God's Word through evangelism.
3. Membership: We incorporate God's family into our fellowship.
4. Maturity: We educate God's people through discipleship.
5. Ministry: We demonstrate God's love through service.


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