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MABC Purpose Statement
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Mt. Airy Bible Church, as a body of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, is committed
to and exists for the purpose of producing mature disciples of Jesus Christ so that
in all things He might have the pre-eminence.
Matthew 28:19-20;
Colossians 1:18
We, as a body of believers in the Lord Jesus, are attempting to serve Him with a philosophy of
ministry that is guided by these four principles:
It is our desire that through these directions, the Lord Jesus will be pre-eminent, the Holy
Spirit will be yielded to, and God may be glorified.
Defined generally, a philosophy of ministry is a set of unalterable principles that
determines how you will function in your ministry. Simply stated, your philosophy of ministry
defines why you do what you do.
Defined specifically, your philosophy of ministry should be drawn from a careful investigation
of the explicit teaching of Scripture and any implicit methodologies which can be gleaned from
seeing how ministry occurred in the early church. Of course, no discussion of explicit or
implicit teachings from Scripture can stand outside of the proper exegetical and hermeneutical
control. When you are able to define your philosophy of ministry in this crucial way, you will
not only know why you do what you do, but how to actually do it.
There are several by-products that prove indespensable in developing a biblically oriented
philosophy of ministry:
 | It develops a unity of direction. Once
your adult ministry has been firmly established, it filters down through the rest of the
flock to form a consistent approach to ministry. It also works to encourage consistent
communication of your purpose and overall direction.
| | It defines each aspect of your ministry in
relation to the whole. With this kind of philosophy, you can avoid the complementation
vs. competition trap as well as "distinction vs. duplication."
| | It forces you to determine your month-to-month
and year-to-year goals with your overall philosophy of ministry firmly in your hand.
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