MVC Missions

Murrieta Valley Church has a local, national and international vision. We seek to bring the gospel to bear on people personally, socially, and culturally here in our region and around the world. We are evangelistic, proclaiming the gospel through word, deed and community.

Our church develops our leaders into missiologists and our members into missionaries who can bring forth the glory of God’s kingdom here at home and abroad. We are exploring and rediscovering what it means to be Jesus’ sent people as their identity and vocation, willing and ready to be Christ’s people in their own situation and place.

It is the hope of Murrieta Valley Church that every person in the church’s congregation will be involved in the spreading of God’s word on a mission field – either by experiencing a trip first hand or through prayer and financial support of those who are called to go out.

God’s mission cannot be accomplished by just one local church like ours, so we are committed to partnering with other churches, organizations and missionaries.

Here are a few of our the ways we are bringing the gospel to bear upon people personally, socially and culturally through word, deed and community:

  • We support Oak Grove Center for Education, Treatment and the Arts which helps at-risk children and their families in Murrieta.
  • We support Southern Baptist North American and International Missions which currently has over 10,000 highly trained missionaries in more that 150 different countries.
  • We help new churches start, even in our own community.
  • We are Getting the Word Out by purchasing and delivering a copy of the Bible to every home in Murrieta.
  • We support individual missionaries such as Paul Gill and Dave Kolb.
  • We support our law officers, firemen, and elected officials who are working hard to protect our city and provide justice.
  • We support our local teachers and schools (private, public, home-schools, charters).
  • We feed the hungry, cloth the poor, visit the sick, shelter the homeless and comfort widows and orphans.
  • We show hospitality and generosity to our neighbors giving them opportunity to experience the glory of the counter-culture of God’s Kingdom found in our church.

Murrieta Valley Church is not a dispenser of religious goods and services or a place where people come for their weekly spiritual fix. We are not a place where “professionals” are hired to do all the work of the church. We are not a church with a “good missions program.” The people are the missions program and we are endeavoring to disciple our neighbors, communities, region, state, nation and world through word, deed and community as exemplified by the Apostle Paul in Acts 16.

On Our Pastors' Minds

Pietism vs Quietism. Both are Losers.

In his book "Our Sufficiency in Christ", John MacArthur describes two extreme views of sanctification: quietism and pietism. Quietism is best seen in the Higher Life Movement and Victorious Life Movement that grew out of Keswick Theology. The mantra of this movement is, "Let Go and Let God." It is view that sees our sanctification as a something sovereignly enacted by God as we passively allow Him to be God in our lives.

The Foundation of Sanctification in Reformed Theology

Rather than view Christians first and foremost in the microcosmic context of their own progress, the Reformed doctrine first of all sets them in the macrocosm of God's activity in redemptive history. It is seeing oneself in this context that enables the individual Christian to grow in true holiness.