Statement of Purpose

It is the intent of Jubilee Worship Center to be a church that reaches more than just the community where we have our address.  We want to reach out to Northwest Indiana.  Realizing that there are many people who are seeking a relationship with God we will provide a venue that will attract seekers. (A seeker is someone that has knowledge about God but is seeking for answers to the spiritual questions he or she is asking)  Our services and ministry out reach will be seeker sensitive.  By this we mean that those who come to Jubilee Worship Center will be accepted no matter what.  Seekers will be the focus of our ministry.  Believers are also important to Jubilee Worship Center.  We will provide the necessary opportunities for them to find their place of ministry.  Jubilee Worship Center also recognizes that God’s family s made of various groups of people that have different backgrounds and cultures.  We know there are a number of cultures that surround our ministry.  Therefore, we will be culturally sensitive.  We will give everyone an opportunity to have an encounter with God no matter what his or her background or cultural diversity.  We will extend our ministry to include all groups of people within our ministry area.  When a seeker begins his or her new life with Christ Jubilee Worship Center will assist that person to grow in the faith until they are able to become active in the Harvest.  According to Matthew 18:21 forgiveness is extended to all who ask.  We believe that everyone can have a New Beginning.  Many people are looking to start fresh but do not know how.  Jubilee Worship Center is dedicated to giving anyone who needs to have the opportunity to begin new in Christ.  It does not make a difference where they have been or what they have done.  Christ can and will forgive them and they can have “A New Beginning.”

 We believe that Jubilee Worship Center exists for the fourfold purpose of:
Exaltation
Edification
Evangelism
Extension

Exaltation--The Church Existing for Christ

"And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.  Therefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow...and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:8-11). 

 The purpose of the Church begins with the recognition that we do not belong to ourselves, having been purchased by the death of Jesus Christ; and that He alone is Lord. Enthroned with all authority, He is the Head of the Church, the One to whom entire allegiance is due. We thus should seek in all things to follow His will as revealed in Scriptures, and bring glory to His name. (Philippians 2:8-10); Ephesians 1:22-23; I Corinthians 6:19; Colossians 2:8-10; Colossians 1:18; I Peter 1:18-19; John 19-21; Mark 14-16; Matthew 27-28)

   Edification--The Church Existing for Itself

"And he gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of service to the building up of the  body of Christ, until we all attain the unity of the faith to a mature man, to the measure of stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:11-13).

   One of the primary goals of the Church must be the life-transformation of each of its members. This requires a strong program of Bible teaching and of training in discipleship and personal evangelism. Believers are to be committed one to another. The body of Christ is thus composed of interdependent members, each having received from the Holy Spirit gifts which are to be exercised for the up building of the whole body and for the bearing of one another’s spiritual and temporal burdens. We thus desire to encourage in one another the development and use of each others abilities, knowing that "the whole body, as a harmonious structure knit together by that which every joint supplies, grows by the proper functioning of individual parts to its full maturity in love." (Ephesians 4:11-13; II Timothy 4:2-4; Titus 2:15; Galatians 6:1-2; Deuteronomy 6:1-2; I Corinthians 12-14; Romans 12:4-8; Hebrews 10:24-5; Hebrews 3:13; Titus 3:14; Acts 4:34-5; Acts 2:42ff; Joshua 1:8; Ephesians 4:16)

Evangelism--The Church Existing for Proclamation

"Go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world" (Matthew 28:19-20, KJV).

   We accept this commission as a priority of the Church collectively and of each believer individually, and it is our desire to share as widely and effectively as possible the Good News of God's forgiveness in Christ. God equips and calls believers into a variety of vocations and ministries, and within that context each person is to be a witness by word and deed to the Lord Jesus Christ. God offers His love to all without distinction and is concerned that believers achieve their full potential in Christ. The proclamation of the Gospel should be accompanied by genuine love and concern for all, and for the whole person. (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; Colossians 4:3-6; Mark 16:15; Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 9:36; Romans 10:14-17; Matthew 22:37-39; Ephesians 3:16-19; Ephesians 4:13)

  Extension--The Church Existing for Action

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, 3 To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”  (Is. 61)

 In addition to the proclamation of the Gospel, the Church has been anointed by the Holy Spirit to go into a world that is wracked by problems such as moral decay, political corruption, oppression, violence, crime, unjust resource use of wealth distribution, and other social scourges that requires biblical solutions.  Hence the anointing to bring good news to the suffering and afflicted, to comfort the broken hearted, to set the captives free, and to open up the prisons.  To those who morn and will give beauty for ashes, joy for morning, and praise instead of heaviness.  We have been commanded to rebuild, repair, and revive the ?, who over time, have been destroyed by sin.  (Luke 3:10-14; Luke 4:16-21; Acts 4:34-35; 2 Corinthians 10:4; Galatians 6:10; James 2:14-26; James 5:1-5; 1 John 3:16)