10 Church Mission Statements in One City

In my forth coming eBook entitled Vision Frame: The Ultimate Guide to Vision for Organized Disciple-making, I share how important it is to develop a clear, concise and compelling big idea of why your local church exists. I call this a mission statement or your church's missional mandate.

The problem is that there are a lot of bad mission statements out there.

They tend to stay generic and fail to combat the functional mission of "more butts in seats at the next worship service." I have a lot fo content on helping you connect the minds and hearts of your people to the true mission Jesus gave the church and to do it well in your time and place. But for now, I want to show how 10 churches in the same city, most of which are within a 20 minute drive time of each other, express a unique disciple-making mission and model starting with a one of a kind omission statement:

Northwest Bible Church: Inviting people into the unexpected joy of desperate dependence on Jesus
Concord Church: People growing people by connecting them to their next step with Christ
Trinity Fellowship: Moving together into the remarkable love of Jesus Christ
St. Andrew United Methodist Church: Calling the Christian-ish to become passionate servants of Christ
Park Cities Baptist Church: Rescuing one another from cultural Christianity to live each day with Jesus
First Baptist Dallas: Transforming the world with the power of God’s Word, one life at a time
Preston Meadow Lutheran Church: Connecting people to share in Christ’s mission of grace for God’s world
Christ Fellowship Church: People helping people find and follow Christ
Fellowship Dallas: Calling each other to live out our God-given purpose in Christ everyday
The Cowboy Church of Ellis County: Changing lives by boldly proclaiming the Gospel to the western culture

Stay tuned for the eBook at this blog or on my Instagram @will_be_clear

About Will

Would you like to fall in love with ministry again?

I want you and your ministry to experience the benefits of stunning, God-given clarity. As a pastor turned vision coach, I’ve worked with an unprecedented variety of churches from growing mega-churches and missional communities, to mainline revitalization and church plants. I started several interconnected organizations that help the church embody the movement that Jesus founded. My visionary planning tools, the Vision Frame and the Horizon Storyline are used by thousands of churches every year through my calling to raise up other consultants and trainers. In 2004, I founded Auxano, which I sold to LifeWay and continued to lead until 2020. In 2014, I created Younique to deliver gospel-centered life design through the church. It is now the world's only comprehensive, open-source life plan system.

In 2023, I founded Run Free as my official team-based consulting shop. We deliver the most innovative Vision Framing experiences available to church teams through the "Pivvot Process" and to network/denominational leaders through the "Denominee Process." We also offer team coaching to church leaders using the "Performance Practices" of meta-performance executive coaching.

I've written seven books: Future Church, Church Unique, Younique, Clarity Spiral, God Dreams, Innovating Discipleship, and Building Leaders. I enjoy speaking about clarity, calling, disciple-making, and vision. It's all about helping one another do more than we can imagine. I co-locate in Houston and Chile with my wife, Romy, and the last of my four children, Poema.

If you are interested in Run Free's consulting offerings or want to discuss getting a LifePlan, just reach out to set up a conversation.

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