Jarvis Ward is National Facilitator of City and Community Ministries of the Mission America Coalition (MAC). Here Jarvis provides an overview of the important work of MAC and its mission statement: “The Whole Church Taking the Whole Gospel to the Whole Nation – and to the World!” No one church, denomination, or parachurch ministry can complete Jesus’ Great Commission (Matthew 28:19, 20) alone. Success in the task will require many of his followers — in answer to Jesus prayer in John 17:20 – 23 — coming together. The Mission America Coalition, is solid in its Biblical foundations, subscribing to the Lausanne Covenant (seen at www.missionamerica.org). It provides Bible believing Christians a great opportunity to discover, love, and serve together across many “lines” – cultural, racial, economic, denominational, social and national – in pleasing God Himself.
The Mission America Coalition, with its love, objective, and vision, is part of the answer to Jesus prayer of John 17:20 – 23:
(20) "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, (21) that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. (22) I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: (23) I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”
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