The Pastors of MAPA commit to cultivate our unity in two ways,
- To regularly meet to Promote loving relationships for encouragement and prayer.
- To partner together to tangibly Proclaim the Gospel through word and deed. We believe doctrinal infighting between Christian traditions makes a mockery of Jesus’ prayer for unity and makes us ineffectual in making the Christ known to the world. (John 1
7:22-23) We recognized that there are doctrinal differences between various communions of the Christian faith; however our unity is in Jesus not in the specifics of each congregation’s unique set of beliefs, practices and values. We believe that the pursuit of unity should never cause a compromise on our pursuit of sound teaching. In this way, we each seek to live out the Bible’s commands to have right doctrine (1 Timothy 4:16; Titus 1:9, 2:1), to love our Christian brothers and sisters (1 Peter 4:8; 1 John 4:7-21), to speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15) and to avoid unnecessary divisions (Romans 16:17; 1 Corinthians 1:10, 12:25; Titus 3:10). More than anything, we want to honor Christ as the Lord over all of life.
