The Stapp Family Mission Statement

Well here it is, our mission statement. "The Stapp Family exists to impact its circle of influence for a multi-generational vision through the inspiration of both men and women returning to their Biblical roles, and the discipleship of their families".
You might ask how I've grown through this process of developing a rite of passage for my sons? Well, here is an example starting with this mission statement. This mission statement gives our family a direction, a purpose for it's existence. We all have to admit, whether we like it or not that many of us, maybe not all of us, but many of us are more deliberate about our finances, our retirement, our recreation and other insignificant things, than we are about our spiritual lives. When it comes to our relationship with Christ most Christians (at times even myself) are on cruise control. We go through the motions, church on Sunday morn, church or small group on Sunday night, church and youth group on Wed night, somewhere in there a Bible study or men's group during the week, and we're mindless about it. Have you been there? I know that I have been. It's time we live out our faith with a purpose and a sense of destiny.

How many businesses or organizations have seen that have a mission statement? How many "successful" businesses and organizations have you come across that have mission statements? Each and everyone I assure you. So why are you any different, are you the exception to the rule? Of course not, live your faith with a purpose. Find your passion, find that direction that our Lord has sent you in, that burden, that calling and put it on paper and mobilize for the glory of God. Tell your kids about it, they're not gonna get it through osmosis. They'll get it and understand it by you taking the initiative to tell them and teach them of the purpose of your family. This is what men that are the spiritual leaders of their households do, they step up and take the lead.

When asking the Stapp boys, "What does your family, the Stapp Family stand for?" They should answer, "Sir/Ma'am, the Stapp Family exists to impact its circle of influence for a multi-generational vision through the inspiration of both men and women returning to their Biblical roles, and the discipleship of their families."

WOW!! If each Christian family in this great nation could grasp this concept and implement it where do you think we would be? Instead we shamefully claim the name of Christ and subscribe to a culture that is slowly rendering us irrelevant and obsolete, and we just smile while the enemy disassembles us from the inside out. I challenge you all to pick up the torch, and make a stand, and live a deliberate Christian life with a sense of purpose!

God Bless,

Joe