What do we Believe?

Monadnock Congregational Church joyfully shares in the Biblical and historical heritage of the Christian Church by abiding in the following Statement of Faith:

  1. We believe there is one God who is existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
  2. We believe in the deity of Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His vicarious death, in  His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to His Father, and in His personal return in power and  glory. 
  3. We believe the Bible is the written Word of God. It is the infallible rule of faith and practice for  the Church of Jesus, the Christ. 
  4. We believe we are brought to faith in Christ and grow in the Christian walk by the continuing  work of the Holy Spirit.
  5. We believe the mission of the church is to bear witness to God's law and gospel in words and  deeds and to make disciples of Christ in all nations. 
  6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved to eternal life with God,  the lost to eternal separation from God. 
  7. We confess as our own the faith embodied in the Apostles' Creed. 

Monadnock Congregational Church proposes to achieve a fellowship characterized by union in  essentials, liberty in non-essentials, and charity in all matters, according to our Statement of  Faith.

What is our Ministry Vision?

Monadnock Congregational Church is a Gospel-Centered Community that Exists to

                                                                            Love God, Love Others, and Make Disciples

We desire to see renewal and awakening brought to the Monadnock Region.

To put it briefly, we love God by gathering regularly to worship Him and by growing in obedience towards Him.  We cultivate these two things by pursuing the Spiritual disciplines which include but are not limited to: regularly reading the Bible, prayer, corporate worship, and fasting.  

We love others first by seeing one another as Image Bearers of God who have been given inherent value and worth, from the womb to the tomb.  And so we treat one another with respect, endeavoring to walk according to the Spirit towards one another with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.  We also love through acts of service, participating in cultivating the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven through many community service projects and partnerships. 

And we make disciples by, first, being a disciple ourselves.  A disciple is a life-long learner and follower of Jesus.  And then from our own walk of discipleship, we endeavor to make disciples.  This includes the act of evangelism, and it means walking alongside one another way, way, way past the point of conversion.  Ken Boa writes:  “the point of the Great Commission is to make disciples, not merely converts.”  We desire to be a community of disciples making disciples, to the glory of God.  

Our constitution, written in 1988, still suienctly summarizes our purpose:

MCC Exists To 

Love God and love our neighbor by: 

∙ Experiencing God-changed hearts through corporate worship 

∙ Growing into mature followers of Jesus Christ 

∙ Sharing Him within our world of influence 

∙ Becoming people of Prayer 

∙ Significantly connecting with one another 

∙ Equipping the body for Ministry