The purpose of the Church is expressed in the Great Commandment: Jesus replied "Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind". (Matthew 22:37), and in The Great Commission: Jesus said, "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." (Matthew 28:19)
We each have found salvation through God's love for us, and because of our relationship with Christ Jesus, God's only Son, our Savior, we have joined together under the leadership of the Holy Spirit to: