The Mission Mid-Atlantic Churches approved their new Identity Document during their Annual Meeting in Lancaster, PA on April 25, 2014.
The Identity Document is an association document that defines our raw and basic associational position. We identify a Conservative Baptist church in covenant community. We do not describe a person (Conservative Baptist).
Our Identity Document is written for our churches and not for our regional office. It is a covenant between churches, and a covenant equals a pledge to relationship which is supported by our understanding of the Trinity.
As we live in relational community in covenant with one another, it has a ripple effect of health. We desire to become an association of healthy churches that gives ourselves away and has a positive effect on the greater evangelical community. Our goal is health for the good of others, and not our own.
Healthy covenant relationships nurture organic reproduction. The regional office advances this process by identifying, developing and providing a set of tools that promote organic reproduction. We want our relationships to become so healthy in meeting one another's needs that our office will no longer be necessary.
To learn more about our Identity Document, or if you have questions, please email me at jim@missionmid-atlantic.org.
~ Jim
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