NCS, of course, has a formal, articulated Mission Statement like many companies and organizations.
NCS is a network of men joined by a common desire for a deep and abiding friendship with Jesus, and lasting and transparent friendships with each other. The mission and purpose of NCS is to connect men who seek and value such friendships, to work together in partnership and to encourage and equip each other to experience personal transformation, in an environment of trust and acceptance. Through friendship, partnership and transformation, we will have a positive and powerful impact on our families, our communities, the marketplace and the world.
This is a huge challenge. But in truth, fulfilling that Mission is happening every day, in small ways and in large, throughout the network of NCS chapters, in lives of men who have committed themselves to friendship with each other and friendship with Jesus.
The notion of “friendship with Jesus” may seem an alien idea to some. But we know it is otherwise. The New Testament accounts tell us that Jesus ate with “publicans and sinners” and this was the basis for the smear campaign that he was a “friend of sinners.” What those slanderers failed to see was that they, just as we, are all sinners needing a friend like Him.
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