Educational In The Person & Mission Of Jesus

The church is originated by Jesus, redeemed by Jesus, organized under Jesus, exists for the mission of Jesus and is the bride of Jesus. The church only realizes her subsistence and the full purpose of her existence when she is all about Jesus.

You can tell when churches get this. You hear His name being spoken in almost every sermon and among the people. The church seeks to be emulate His teachings and mission as written in the gospels. They are preoccupied, captivated, engrossed, with Jesus.They are a loving body of various people held together by Jesus, striving to be like Him. They are not always about the safest course of action but sometimes seem to embrace radical actions of love and service. This is a church that is alive with the same purpose, power and possibilities that we read about in the New Testament.

When Jesus is not the true leader of a church, the church lacks a solid direction, struggles with unity, flounders without with a weak identity, and lacks consistent passion in their public worship. Leadership, desperate for something that will catapult them to become a more exciting, lively, booming church, studies other churches for a magic pill they can duplicate in their setting. When what is desperately needed all along is for the church simply to make Jesus their hero and to move beyond worshiping Him because of how He makes them feel into learning to follow Him together in their day to day lives.

Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, in their good and needed book ReJesus write, "How many so-called movements has the Protestant church seen in recent memory? Whether it is Pentecostalism, church growth theory, the third-wave charismatic movement, the parachurch movement, rapid church multiplication, emerging church, simple church, or the passion movement, so many of them have been presented as new ways of doing church. From our perspective, this is putting the cart before the horse. Let's get our Christology right and then dare to place all our deeply held desires for how to do church at its service. Not vice versa."

To be a part of RCC is to grow in your knowledge, and therefore devotion, to who Jesus is and the life He has called us all to be a part of. This is a core value of RCC because everything we do flows from His leadership.