Our Mission
Our mission is quite simple: We seek to evangelize the lost and to keep the saved saved. The members at North Green Street Church of Christ seek to grow in the likeness of Christ and to love and serve others in His name, while praising God and proclaiming the good news of Jesus to those in the Tupelo area and the rest of the world.
“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.” 2 Corinthians 5:20
We seek to:
Grow
Growing spiritually and becoming transformed into his likeness. “Being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory.” 2 Corinthians 5:20
Love
Loving others as Jesus has loved us. “As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” John 13:34
Serve
Serving others as Jesus served. “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve.” Mark 10:45
Praise
Praising God in all we do. “Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise – the fruit of lips that confess his name.” Hebrews 13:15
Proclaim
Proclaiming the good news as Jesus did. “Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.” Luke 8:1
What we believe
We are people who want to be the church Jesus said He would build (Matthew 16:18). We strive to be the church Jesus purchased with His blood (Acts 20:28) and have the unity Jesus prayed for in John 17:21. This demands more than just an “agree to disagree: attitude that tolerates the teaching and practices of man-made doctrines today. In 1 Corinthians 1:10 we read, “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgement.” We must go back to the Bible for our doctrine, the organization of the church, our worship and our evangelizing of the lost.
The church that Jesus built has never belonged to man, but to Him. “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.” Colossians 1:18. We do not make our own doctrines, do not make our own conditions for membership, and do not have an earthly headquarters, or a president. Jesus is the foundation on which the church is built, and even though in heaven, He is still the head of the church. We look to him for our guidance, and we seek to please Him, not ourselves.
The guidance of which we speak comes from the Bible, as stated in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”
Since that is true, the Bible is essential to our worship, our Bible classes, and every part of our relationship with JESUS and His church.
