Our Mission
The mission of Mercy Gate Church - Box Elder is to Know, Grow, and Go
To Know: Knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent through his revealed Word and through singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. (John 17:3, John 17:17, 1 John 5:11, Colossians 3:16)
To Grow: Growing in faith and obedience to the Word of God, becoming disciples and making disciples who live our lives through consistent reading, discussion, exhortation, action, and sharing our faith with both believers and unbelievers. (Romans 10:17, Philemon 6)
To Go: To go to the world as ambassadors of Christ, evangelizing those God providentially places in our lives, beginning in our own neighborhoods, into Box Elder, South Dakota, the United States, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8, Matthew 28:18-20)
To Know: Knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent through his revealed Word and through singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. (John 17:3, John 17:17, 1 John 5:11, Colossians 3:16)
To Grow: Growing in faith and obedience to the Word of God, becoming disciples and making disciples who live our lives through consistent reading, discussion, exhortation, action, and sharing our faith with both believers and unbelievers. (Romans 10:17, Philemon 6)
To Go: To go to the world as ambassadors of Christ, evangelizing those God providentially places in our lives, beginning in our own neighborhoods, into Box Elder, South Dakota, the United States, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8, Matthew 28:18-20)
Our Vision
To make disciples who honor Jesus Christ with their whole heart, mind, soul, and strength, and
to love their neighbors through discipleship, evangelism, and bearing burdens.
to love their neighbors through discipleship, evangelism, and bearing burdens.
Our Model
Baptist, congregational, autonomous, evangelistic, cooperating closely with likeminded conventions, institutions, ministries, and boards, etc, to preach the Word, administer the church ordinances, and to make disciples through accountability and loving correction, reproof, rebuke, and training in righteousness.