Our Vision

Praise & Worship will be a Christ-focused body of believers; making disciples and sharing the Good News of Jesus with all of southwest Missouri and beyond.

How Do We Proceed?

Jesus makes it clear. Wherever we go, whatever we do, be making disciples by baptizing and teaching. How are we doing that at Praise & Worship? 

Gather - Acts 2:42

And they devoted themselves to THE APOSTLES’ TEACHING and THE FELLOWSHIP, to THE BREAKING OF BREAD and THE PRAYERS.

Grow - Romans 8:1

There is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION for those who are IN CHRIST JESUS.

Encourage - 2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

But following Jesus is not only when something happens in the heart, nor only a cognitive, nor only a task-based enterprise, but rather a holistic application of everything. Its aim is something that happens both in our inner rooms and out in public, in our lives to, with and from the reality of Jesus living in us, forming us.

Share - John 13:35

Jesus said, “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

This Christ-Centered, Disciple-Making Community shall continue embodying the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control of Jesus! These are the fruit of His Spirit (see Galatians 5:1-26), which He produces, in us and through us! As such we will be His ambassadors in this dark world, not though some “religious” set of activities or programs, but rather in the reality of His people present, by His power, in the midst of a world of people for which He died and to which He is sending.

We believe, teach and confess that Jesus provides the POWER for doing all of the above (preaching, teaching, forming, and embodying) by His Spirit through His Word, in spoken, written and sacramental (the mysteries of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper) form.