MRC Teams & Leaders

There is a significant difference between how God designed life and how humans tend to live it.  This can be clearly seen in the difference in what God values compared to what this world values regarding success, positions, titles, and even organizations.  People drift to the title; they rank people out and try to figure out who matters most, while God values who we are, giving each of us unique talents and skills to serve Him in our own unique way.  And none of that is more or less important to God than another.  You were created for a purpose that God wired into you, and your goal in life is to discover it and live that out!  That is when you experience your best life possible.  That is why engaging a church is so important.  When we engage our church and begin serving in it, we start to discover who we are and the unique purpose God created us for! You are better for it, the people around you are better for it, and so is the church.

Scripture tells us that the church is "The Body of Christ."  

1 Corinthians 12:12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. NLT

Romans 12:4 Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, 5 so it is with Christ's body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. NLT

Remember what I said about the contrast between how humans view what matters and how God does?  Scripture is also very clear that no part of the body is more or less important than another, which tends to get overlooked if we use the world's value system rather than God's to find importance and what matters.  It is very important to us that you understand that everything we do, everything we are, and every way we serve at MRC points to who matters, and that is Jesus.  No part of the body is more important than another; it all points to who matters, and that is Jesus.

1 Corinthians 12:14 I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. 15 If Foot said, "I'm not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don't belong to this body," would that make it so? 16 If Ear said, "I'm not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don't deserve a place on the head," would you want to remove it from the body? 17 If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? 18 As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it. 19 But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn't be a body, but a monster. 20 What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place. No part is important on its own. MSG

Everything we do points to Jesus, not us.  The Body of Christ is at its best when we grasp this concept, which is rare for people to do because we see and value things so differently than God does. 

With that said, let's meet our team.