Beautiful Feet exists…
To see the Great Commission completed with disciples of Jesus making disciples of Jesus among all unreached and unengaged people groups.
est. 1995
We follow Jesus to unreached and unengaged people groups, cooperating with churches, mobilization organizations, and other missionary agencies to mobilize, train, and send long-term, catalytic missionary teams to start disciple-making/church-planting movements.
Six Distinctives of Beautiful Feet
1. Jesus and His Kingdom
We desire to always be passionately and whole-heartedly pursuing Jesus and His Kingdom, honoring the greatest commandment: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." (Matthew 22:37)
2. Radical Love for One Another
Jesus said, "they will know you are My disciples by your love for one another" (John 13:35). As brothers and sisters in Christ, we commit to bear with and forgive one another, as well as encourage and spur one another on towards love and good deeds. We "speak the truth in love" (Eph 4:15) and with all humility, gentleness and patience, we are diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Eph 4:2-3).
3. Ministry in Deed and Truth
Jesus's mission was "to bring Good News to the poor, to proclaim liberty to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor" (Luke 4:18-19). As His hands and beautiful feet, we model our ministry after His meeting the physical needs of people in concert with the spiritual.
4. Incarnational lifestyle
Just as Jesus became flesh and "dwelt among us" (John 1:14), so our missionaries go and live among the people, adopting their language and culture in order to become "all things to all people that by all means we might win some" (1 Cor 9:22).
5. Contextualization of the Gospel
Our missionaries aim to plant the seed of the kingdom of God into the new soil of the receiving culture without unnecessary aspects of their home culture so that the gospel can spread without hindrance (John 4:1-26, Acts 8:26-40, Acts 17:16-34).
6. Multiplication of Disciples
We want to make disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus, leading to the multiplication of churches, enabling entire people groups to have access to the Good News of Jesus (Matthew 28:18-20 and 2 Tim 2:2).
Doctrinal Statement
Beautiful Feet stands firmly within the global evangelical movement. The four primary characteristics that have historically defined this movement are:
The belief that lives need to be transformed through a "born-again" experience and a life long process of following Jesus.
A stress on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross along with His resurrection as making possible the redemption of humanity.
A high regard for and obedience to the Bible as the ultimate authority.
The expression and demonstration of the gospel in missionary and social reform efforts.
Beautiful Feet affirms these four primary characteristics and acknowledges their foundational importance in all we are and do. (See here).
Given our firm stance within the global evangelical movement, Beautiful Feet affirms as its doctrinal statement the Lausanne Covenant of 1974, agreed upon by evangelicals from more than 150 nations. (See here).
Finally, because of our commitment to the lordship of Jesus and the authority of the scriptures God has given us, we additionally make the following statements:
We affirm the Genesis creation account and deny any theory of origins that places death before Adam's fall into sin (Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
We believe that God creates each person as male or female. God defines marriage as a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman (Matthew 19:4-5). Any sexual identity, desire, or action outside a biblical marriage is sexual immorality.
We believe that human life begins at conception and is to be protected until natural death, as all humans are created in the image of God (Genesis 9:6). Abortion and assisted suicide both violate God’s commandment, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17). Compassion and love never justify the purposeful taking of innocent life (Proverbs 24:11).