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Our Mission

Our Faith Ministries exists to help serious-minded Believers move beyond religion and belief alone into an intimate knowledge and experience with the living God.

Called to Formation

Our calling is rooted in the conviction that the Christian life was never intended to end with conversion, church participation, or the accumulation of biblical knowledge. Believers are called to grow—to become spiritually mature, discerning, faithful, and increasingly conformed to the life and character revealed in Jesus Christ.

For this reason, our work is fundamentally a ministry of spiritual formation.

We seek to provide the biblical education, fellowship, accountability, encouragement, and opportunities for partnership through which Believers may continue a lifelong journey of knowing God and learning to live under the authority of His Word.

The Mission

This mission recognizes that spiritual maturity cannot be produced merely by transmitting information. Truth must be learned, examined, practiced, tested, and ultimately incorporated into the life of the Believer.

Our concern therefore extends beyond what a person believes to how that belief governs the whole of life.

Faith must eventually address our relationships, families, work, resources, responsibilities, decisions, conduct, service, stewardship, and relationship with the World System. The Kingdom of God cannot remain an abstract theological idea. It must become the governing reality by which the Believer learns to live.

Our mission is to mature those who are ready to move beyond religion and belief alone, into an intimate knowledge and experience with the living God.

From Temple to Table

Our Faith Ministries describes this movement as From Temple to Table.

The Table represents a deliberate movement toward relationship, participation, accountability, conversation, learning, and shared spiritual responsibility. It is an environment in which Believers do more than receive teaching. They examine Scripture together, ask serious questions, learn from one another, confront the practical implications of truth, and encourage one another toward maturity.

Through International Table Ministries, members become part of a continuing community committed to this journey.

The Table is therefore not simply a meeting place. It is an environment for formation.

Education for the Journey

Spiritual formation requires serious engagement with Scripture.

Through D. Mass Christian Publishers, Inc., books, studies, teaching materials, and other resources are developed to help Believers understand Scripture within its biblical, historical, cultural, and Kingdom context.

These materials serve the Tables, but their reach is not limited to membership. D. Mass Christian Publishers makes formation resources available worldwide to members and non-members alike.

Publishing allows the teaching ministry to travel where the institution itself may not yet have a physical presence.

Fellowship and Accountability

Knowledge alone is insufficient.

Believers need relationships in which truth can be discussed, questioned, applied, and lived. They need people who can encourage them when the journey becomes difficult and challenge them when belief and practice begin to separate.

International Table Ministries provides that relational dimension of the mission.

Members gather around the Table for education, fellowship, accountability, encouragement, and partnership—not as spectators, but as participants in their own formation and in the strengthening of others.

Partnership in the Work

Maturity ultimately produces responsibility.

The purpose of formation is not to create a community permanently occupied with itself. As Believers mature, they become increasingly capable of serving others, exercising faithful stewardship, strengthening families and communities, participating in ministry, and carrying Kingdom principles into the responsibilities God has entrusted to them.

Our Faith Ministries therefore invites members not only to learn and fellowship, but eventually to participate in the work.

The journey moves from receiving to understanding, from understanding to living, and from living to serving.

The Fruit We Seek

We are not attempting merely to build a larger religious audience.

We seek mature Believers.

Believers who know God rather than merely know about Him.
Believers who can handle Scripture responsibly.
Believers whose discernment has been developed through use.
Believers who understand the distinction between the Kingdom of God and the World System.
Believers who accept accountability and responsibility.
Believers who understand stewardship.
Believers capable of strengthening others.
Believers prepared to remain faithful wherever their spiritual journey may lead.

To provide a lifelong environment in which serious-minded Believers may learn, fellowship, mature, serve, and increasingly experience what it means to live under the government of God.