A mission statement of a company is a short sentence used to explain its purpose for being, defining the company's ethics, culture, and agenda, enabling its employees to align their goals with the company. Luke 4:16-21 and Mark 1:14-15, statements from Christ made at approximately the same time, constitute the composite mission statement directed at Christ's disciples suggesting that right now (at the beginning of His ministry) is the propitious moment when all things leading to the Day of the Lord begin to wrap up. Jesus reveals His credentials as the anointed Messiah, declaring that the Spirit of God is within Him as it was in prophets of old, anointed to preach the Gospel to the poor in spirit, healing the broken hearts of people who had been abused by betrayal or deceit, releasing people held slave by falsehoods, removing spiritual blindness from all those who desire to submit to God, receiving the Holy Spirit or mind of God, enabling them to see the truth. From the first Pentecost until now, Jesus has been calling and training a small group of people to harvest a greater number of called-out ones, all made up of poor, broken-hearted individuals to comprise a staff anointed to go to the whole world, serving as priests and intercessors. We have been anointed by our Savior and Redeemer to participate in the same work.