This is Beach Mission

We as people were created in the image of God, as relational beings. We can make connections with one another, can reflect on our own behavior and for example can think about the meaning of life. Relationships give meaning to life. We are convinced that our deepest purpose lies in the relationship with God. God is Spirit, but also Person. He created us as human beings, not to lead life on our own, but to live based on this connection with God; in this life, but also in life after this life, in eternity. (Romans 1:20, Matthew 28:19, Deuteronomy 4:35, John 17:5).

We see the Bible as a love letter of God to us. By reading the Bible we discover who God is and what He wants to mean for us.

The world and nature on it (the creation), came into being because God spoke. When God had made the world, everything was good.

Man is the crown of creation. God made humans as man and wife. Sex between a husband and wife is the only form of sexual relationships that God approves of.

God made a visible, but also an invisible world. The invisible world is the domain of angels/spirits. Most angels are serving God and people and they reveal themselves to people sporadically. A part of the angels – led by satan – have become unfaithful to God. After a battle in heaven they were cast out of heaven and they now want to take over God’s authority on earth and establish their own spiritual kingdom; this is also referred to as the realm of darkness. These spirits from this realm also are called demons. These spirits are trying to influence and control people.

Most people realize that there is more between heaven and earth, but many people never had a personal experience with God. The reason for this is that there is a problem between us and God. That problem is in our thinking and acting. As humans we can do many good things, but if you look at the misery in the world, you also see that we as humans are not able to live in harmony with people around us. You see that on a large scale, but also in our own lives. Even while doing good things we often do these for our own wellbeing. This problem creates a distance between people, but also between humans and our Maker, God.

When God had created the world, everything was good. Mankind received responsibility for the world. As long as man was connected with God, there would be no death and man would live with God forever.

With the first people, satan succeeded in causing a break in the relationship between God and mankind. That is why there is a lot of misery in this world. God holds each one of us responsible for our own mistakes, but also collectively for the misery in this world, because we are no different than other people and evil seems to have gotten into our DNA. God calls this sin and deals with it as we do with a crime. This problem cannot be solved by having a good conversation. The punishment God is satisfied with, is that we die and that we are without Him in eternity. Result would be that there is no man left who eternally lives with God.

God came with an alternative solution! This solution is the sacrifice of an innocent man. Someone who does not deserve the punishment himself, but wants to take it upon himself for someone else. In Jesus God took the form of a man. He was truly God and truly man. He lived life as God intended it. He did not have evil in His DNA. He was innocent, but allowed Himself to be sentenced, executed to death and came in eternal darkness. In doing so, Jesus sacrificed Himself and ended the enmity of God towards us.

Even before we could ask God for this, God took this step. It was His own initiative. Yet God wants us to realize that this was necessary for us personally. In prayer we can come to God with our lives and confess that we are not a better person than others, we can ask forgiveness for our mistakes (sins), accept that the sacrifice of Jesus was necessary for us, and thank Him for His sacrifice. Through this, the realm of darkness loses the right to influence and control your life. When you decide to be baptized, you show the spiritual world around you that your old life is dead, that you resurrect into a new life and that the domain of darkness has no right anymore to have power over you.

As a victim or relative of a victim of a crime, it does not just happen that you become good friends years later. With God this is completely different. He wants Himself to be known through the Bible. He, the Maker and King of the universe, the highest spiritual authority, wants to adopt us as child. He wants to have a relationship with us, as close as in a marriage. When you allow that, He wants to guide your life by the Holy Spirit. In prayer we can open our hearts for Him, ask Him by the Holy Spirit to come dwell in our hearts and to renew us from the inside out, ask Him to help us to follow Him and to obey, ask to teach us to read from the Bible and to understand and to give our lives in His Hands. We can also thank God that we receive power to become a child of God.

Out of that relationship with God, He wants to change our thinking (desires) and our acting by the Holy Spirit. Because of this you see yourself less and less as important, and God and people around you become more and more important. The more you are connected with God, the more you become free from addictions and the more you want to commit to people around you. The rules of God that at first were confronting and limiting, you now appreciate and you want to follow them.

God accepted Jesus’ sacrifice. Through this we can now not only restore the relationship with God, but through this the sentence that was pronounced over us (that we have to die and that we will be without Him in eternity) is done away with. Jesus showed that He is more powerful than the realm of darkness and death. The relationship with God also continues as soon as we die. We are then immediately with Jesus. Jesus also gave His followers – and in that all believers – the command to act upon that power by healing the sick, by delivering people from demons and even by raising the dead. God provided spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit to do so. When we work with these gifts it needs to be in balance with the fruit of the Spirit. Not everyone with a relationship with God (immediately) receives gifts of the Spirit.

All misery in this world one day will be ended. This will happen when Jesus returns and all things become new. No death, no sorrow, no pain or trouble anymore!

God did everything to prevent that we go to hell. However, when we make the choice to lead our own lives, it is our own choice. God respects that choice. The sun goes up for believers and non-believers. A relationship with God is a relationship of love, you cannot force that. But it is good to know that when we choose to live our lives without God, then we also choose so for eternity. We then choose to be without all those beautiful things that we now receive from God.

The reason why we want to bring young people in holiday areas in contact with Jesus is first of all because our own lives through the relationship with Jesus have changed in a positive very way. But it is also because we want to obey the last wish that Jesus expressed before He left the earth, which is our mission.

Doing evangelism means working at the spiritual front lines. Spiritual opposition happens then. The realm of darkness is trying to minimize the impact of the work by discouraging and by causing disunity among us.