Your Life Mission Statement

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.” -Martin Luther

The outspoken 16th Century Protestant, Martin Luther- life mission statement was simple. Stand up for truth! That summed up his whole life mission. Wally ‘Famous Amos’s was, to be the “most famous cookie.” There are favorite cookies, and then there is the famous cookie. These two unknown figures came out of nowhere, and shook up the foundation of the most powerful Pope and cookie industry. This was all due to them having a simple bold mission: to make a statement in life. Paul said, “Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation (2 Corinthians 7:4).”

Your life must make a powerful statement like Luther and Amos, where you can rise to the occasion and make your stand. “In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him (Ephesians 3:12).”

Just as a marriage has a mission statement, which is “let nothing separate you, what ‘el Shaddai brought together.” A family must have a mission statement to unify them as one body and one mind. What good is a life mission statement, if there is nobody there to support the cause? Martin Luther and Wally Amos had a movement who stood together. A family is a movement when it has a single purpose, but weakened when going in different directions. “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand (Mark 3:25).” United we stand, divided we fall.

A family with many different talents can accomplish the impossible as one faith, when it can identify with what they stand for as a movement. “Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind (Philippians 2:2).” This shows you’re “moving” in the same direction as an unstoppable force. Just like Martin Luther, the family mission statement as a movement, is a bold and simple one: “Build Together!” Of course there will be differences and disagreements, but that is with any board meeting and the UN. As long as the goal remains the same, “Build together!”

Your life must become a movement or cause. In order to be in a position of power, you must stand for something, or you will fall for anything. A person of this magnitude cannot stand for everything, or else this will weaken your position for not having a solid foundation. You can’t be all over the place. There needs to be an authoritative stance held. Christ said, “He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great (Luke 6:48-49).” This is what occurred with Wally Amos; he sold out, flipped.