The Mission of Macedonia Baptist Church

Before we started a college ministry at Macedonia Baptist, I spent each week in the Young Married Couples Sunday class on Sunday mornings. I mention that because I found something very interesting about those particular people in that class, something quite contrary to what I would most often expect anywhere else. The couples were intently interested in God's Word, and very supportive of the church financially, and very communicative in class. But none of those things were novelties. What I found surprising about these people was that their goal was not built around themselves. They understood that the Church is about service and ministry, about people and community, but most importantly, it's about the saving work of Christ on a cross on our behalf. It's about making "little Christs". Their desire was for God's Word to shape them, to challenge them, to break them, to break the people around them, and then let the love of Christ build them back again in his image. If they, as a class, were not being conformed to the image of God and therefore drawing others around them to the love of Jesus, they were not being obedient to His call and all of their work was "simply a waste of time". I was saddened at how foreign that environment felt from my previous church experience. God is about His Church, and we are to be about Him and His Glory and His Son and His people whom he loves.