Missio Dei is a new Jesus centered and gospel focused church in Fort Collins. We are dedicated to loving God, living in community, and impacting our city with the gospel.

Churches are designed by God to be instruments of renewal in the world, not only renewing individual lives but also renewing cultural forms and structures, helping to make all that is crooked in our world straight.

Therefore…

*We desire to be biblical – This means that we want everything we do to be shaped around the Word of God. We do not want to be driven by a movement or the opinions of men. It also stresses the fact that we want our services to emphasize the preaching and teaching of the Scriptures in an accurate, compelling, and relevant manner. This also means that we are constantly learning and growing and when given sufficient Scriptural evidence we are willing to change because we understand our finite understanding of theology and church practice.

*We desire to be evangelical – This means that there are certain truths that we will not let go of, that is the tenets of the historic Christian faith. This would include the Person and work of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, the inerrancy and authority of Scripture, the gospel as the only means of salvation, and a literal heaven and hell.

*We desire to be theological – This means that we desire to know God as He desires to be known. Theology is the study of God. As a community Missio Dei is committed to knowing God and making Him known. At Missio Dei we recognize that our sole purpose for existence is to bring God glory, and we believe that this can only be accomplished by rightly relating to His Son, Jesus Christ. Therefore our desire is to make Jesus famous. He is the Senior Pastor of the church and every decision should be made with one criterion; does it bring people into a greater knowledge of Him? Being theological means that our passion is to bring people into a proper understanding of the God of the Bible so that they can know Him intimately and follow Him properly. Therefore we are committed to teaching/preaching the Scriptures because this is the primary place that God reveals Himself to us. This would also include our times of corporate worship, which will be centered on music that is both theologically sound and meaningful to the people of our city. We believe that worship is not just the songs we sing before the sermon on Sunday; worship is our entire life, everything we do should be worship unto Him (Romans 12:1-2).

*We desire to be relatable – This means that while our message will never be compromised our methods will be fresh and culturally relevant. We will hold tightly to those things that are not debatable but we will hold loosely to those things that simply cause division and are counterproductive to our mission. Like Paul we desire to become all things to all men that we might by all means save some (1 Cor. 9:19-23).

We desire to be missional - This means that our ministry will be outwardly not inwardly focused. While the church certainly needs to be equipped and engaged for their mission (Ephesians 4), it also needs to be set free to live amongst the world and not have their lives defined by the 4 walls of the church. As a missional church we refuse to isolate ourselves from the world. Our focus instead will be on taking the gospel to the world that Jesus said is ready for harvest (John 4:35). This being said, we also understand that not every activity of the church corporately or the Christian individually has to be soteric. There is redemptive value in feeding the poor, clothing the homeless, comforting the afflicted, and cleaning up the community. While we should always be ready to tell people about the gospel, it is counterproductive on both fronts to awkwardly slap the gospel onto these efforts. The essence of being missional means that we understand that we are on mission with God. Jesus was sent by the Father and now He has sent us as His missionaries (John 20:21). We have been commissioned to continue the mission of Jesus to redeem the world from the repercussions of sin and death (2 Corinthians 5:17-21).

“For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:5)

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