Our Purpose
The Purpose of Amelia Baptist Church is to glorify God by being a people who will love the
Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love each other as ourselves.
Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus replied: “Love the Lord
your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your
neighbor as yourself.” All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
commandments. Matt. 22:36-40 NIV
There is a very important distinction between “being” something, and “doing”
something. We live in a society that, in many ways, defines itself by what it accomplishes.
This same society creates within all of us the need to accomplish or perform in order to have purpose
and meaning. God did create us with this need to work and create. Yet, this is not
the primary purpose for our existence. God created us to “be” a people who
love Him and seek His glory. Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to “love”
the Lord God with all your heart, soul, and mind. God wants us to be a people who love Him.
Therefore, our purpose as Amelia Baptist Church is to “be” that people.