Naša Misija – Our Mission

Published on by Steve

We are a spiritual family
that worships, praises and proclaims
Christ, and by the grace and love
of God builds up, serves and
blesses people.

For more than a year, since the death of our Croatian minister, Mladen Jovanović, the leadership of our congregation in Zagreb has been praying about and piecing together a new Mission and Vision for our congregation. On Sunday, April 19, we began a six week series of preaching through the new church Mission and Vision Statements. I was tasked with beginning this process. I started by saying that our Mission Statement answers three questions:

1. Who are we?

2. What do we do? What are we for? What is our purpose?

3. How do we accomplish it?

I focused on the aspect of our congregation being a family, and that each member of a family both gains benefits from being part of the family, and has responsibilities to the family. Everyone has a part to play. I also emphasized that part of the description of what we do is God-focused and part is people-focused, which led to presenting our motto:

“Ljubiti Boga i ljubiti bližnjega svoga.”
“Love God and love your neighbor.”
This is taken from Luke 10:27, when Jesus announced the two greatest commands: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, love your neighbor as yourself.”
Then I closed my sermon with talking about how we accomplish all of this: only by the power that comes through the Spirit of God, by his grace and love.
Please pray with us that our congregation embraces this mission. It is one thing to put words on a page, and quite another for it to become something we live out. Pray also that each one feels a responsibility to become actively involved in doing their part in being a tool in the hands of God, to bring this to reality among us and in our community.