Our values...
1. Viewing Jesus Christ as everything that the Christian life is all about.
In everything we do, Christ will be the focus of all of our attention, affection and devotion. He will define every dimension of the Christian experience for us. Our aim will be to reflect His character, methods and mission in our lives and ministries. In our lives and ministries, we will seek above all things, to bring maximum glory and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:18, “He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.”
Colossians 3:11, “a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.”
1 Corinthians 2:2, “For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.”
2 Corinthians 4:5, “For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake.”
2. Building relationships, friendships, and fellowship.
We believe that Christianity is a relational faith—it is about relationship with God and people. We also believe that we cannot fully embrace relationship with Christ without fully embracing relationship with His people. Fellowship (sharing our lives together) is the means through which relationships are built and strengthened within the Christian context; therefore, it is our goal to develop fellowship in all of its dimensions within the life of the local church. We value relationships over ritual, friendship over function, and prioritize people over property and programs. We will focus on being friends of Jesus and sharing our lives together.
1 John 3:1, “See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.”
Galatians 6:10, “So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.”
Ephesians 2:19, “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household,”
1 Timothy 3:15, “but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.”
