What is the Reformed Doctrine of Mercy Ministry?

The mission statement of our church is “bringing classic Christianity to modern people with simplicity and excellence.” Our faith is old, and we want people to feel that. Christianity has withstood the test of time upon its sturdy foundations which are both ancient and ever-fresh. So no matter when it is in her glorious history, even hundreds of years in the future, the church is always of the same living truth, the same Christian stuff. And one of the main ingredients in the stuff of God’s people is mercy ministry.

Mercy ministry pays attention to the physical needs of people and seeks to meet them in the name of Christ. The early church was exemplary in this: “There was not a needy person among them” (Acts 4:34). Wow. They felt the pains and pinches of others because that’s what God’s children do. We are like our Father who is full of compassion and mercy. He calls us to bring out good things from the treasury box of his Son and give them freely to people in need—especially those believers in our local church community— transforming even simple gifts into tokens of heavenly grace. And it doesn’t get any more Reformed than that.