GUEST BLOGGER – COREY SMILEY

Jesus.  He is the center of anything we do at Remedy.  We do not do anything for the sake of morality, we do not do anything just to be good people.  This is true for our local missions as well.  Jesus is the center of every local mission project.  As a church, we do not want to just be okay with doing good things, and patting ourselves on our backs so that we feel better about ourselves.  The reason we do local missions, the reason we serve is because we have been served first.  The reason we love is because we have been loved first.

As Christians, we are now the salt and light of the world.  We are now called to be ministers of reconciliation.  2 Corinthians 5:20 says, “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making His appeal through us.  We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God“.  We are the tool that God uses to bring this world back to Him.  A huge part of reconciliation is for Remedy, as a body, to be going out into our city and serving.  How this works specifically at Remedy is our Community Groups going into the city and serving, loving, and looking to present the Gospel through word and deed.

Our local missions though is not the end.  At Remedy Church, something we constantly are trying to think through is how to keep our local missions from being a program.  We do not want it to be seen as something we do just once a month.  When local missions is not a program, then our lives will be constantly on mission.  We should constantly be looking to present the gospel with our words and deeds.

So at Remedy Church we will have local mission projects once a month for community groups, we will also have church-wide local mission projects about every season to serve and love our city, seeking it’s welfare.

But missions at Remedy is more than projects, it happens everyday.  Everyday, we are on mission.
OUR MISSION IS TO RECONCILE PEOPLE TO JESUS, BRINGING THEM BACK TO THE ONLY HOPE FOUND IN THE GOSPEL.

May God be glorified with our hands and hearts,
Corey