Learn About God
The Main Goal
Perhaps the main goal for learning that we share in common here at Stuart Presbyterian Church is to be faithful worshippers of Jesus Christ. We acknowledge that faithful worship can be as diverse and varied as the members of the church. But a foundational commitment that is necessary for any worship to happen is the willlingness of Christians to seek out their spiritual giftedness and allow the Holy Spirit to energize these gifts into action.
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit, speaking through the apostle Paul, reminded the Christians in Asia Minor that Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church, gave the various offices and varied spiritual gifts to his body, the Church, so as "to prepare God's people for works of service" in order that the "body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." (Eph. 4:12-13)
The Mission
As such, it is part of the mission of this church to help enable people to find their spiritual giftedness and to use that giftedness in the various ministries of the church. We acknowledge that all spiritual gifts are uniuque and beneficial to the body of Christ. We encourage each person to prayerfully commit to finding his or her own place in the body of Christ and serving with their whole heart, mind, soul and energy as God energizes their gifts into action. To the church in Rome, Paul declared: "Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us." Paul encourages us, as co-workers in the gospel, to "offer our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God" and calls this act on our part "worship."
Perhaps the main goal for learning that we share in common here at Stuart Presbyterian Church is to be faithful worshippers of Jesus Christ. We acknowledge that faithful worship can be as diverse and varied as the members of the church. But a foundational commitment that is necessary for any worship to happen is the willlingness of Christians to seek out their spiritual giftedness and allow the Holy Spirit to energize these gifts into action.
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit, speaking through the apostle Paul, reminded the Christians in Asia Minor that Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church, gave the various offices and varied spiritual gifts to his body, the Church, so as "to prepare God's people for works of service" in order that the "body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." (Eph. 4:12-13)
The Mission
As such, it is part of the mission of this church to help enable people to find their spiritual giftedness and to use that giftedness in the various ministries of the church. We acknowledge that all spiritual gifts are uniuque and beneficial to the body of Christ. We encourage each person to prayerfully commit to finding his or her own place in the body of Christ and serving with their whole heart, mind, soul and energy as God energizes their gifts into action. To the church in Rome, Paul declared: "Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us." Paul encourages us, as co-workers in the gospel, to "offer our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God" and calls this act on our part "worship."