Discipleship
The
Missioners of Christ has been called together to fulfill
the Great Commission, “making disciples of all nations”
(Matt 28:19).
We are a discipleship community – not only evangelizing
and spreading the Good News, but teaching others to
evangelize and teach themselves.
Primary Method of Discipleship:
Our primary means of discipleship is participating in
and facilitating missionary service, both short- and
long-term. However, it is recognized that this requires
a variety and continuum of ministries which feed and
prepare both the Disciplers and those being discipled.
Locus of Ministry &
Service
As God has
blessed us abundantly with many gifts, and it is
recognized that, “much will be required of the person
entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of
the person entrusted with more.” (Luke 12:48b), our
primary locus of ministry and service is outside
of our community. Realizing that more than two-thirds of
the world does not even know Christ in slightest
capacity, and that many of the faithful that call
themselves Christian are so poorly discipled that they
are like the seed that “fell on rocky ground where it
had little soil” that ended up being “scorched and
withered for lack of roots” (Mark 4:5,6) – as soon as
difficulties arise, their faith perishes, and then they
are like “salt which loses its taste” (Luke 14:34).
Primary Target Group:
The Missioners of Christ’s
primary target group for service is youth and young
adults. The mobilization of this generation is seen as
paramount in carrying out the mission of the Missioners
of Christ and the Catholic Church at large.
Community
Community is the fruit of our common prayer and common
ministry. While fruit can be enjoyed in and of itself,
its ultimate purpose is to fall to the ground, die, and
reproduce itself in abundance. In such, internal
ministry is essential to the Missioners, such as prayer
groups, retreats, social opportunities, formation, and
intercessory prayer covering -- yet these aspects of
Missioners are engaged in for the purpose of
strengthening its members so that they may go forth
in serving those much more in need than ourselves, and
are always in subservience to our vision and mission to
disciple the nations, “for the love of Christ urges us
on” (CCC 851).
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