TRUTH

Revealed Truth in Scripture:  to articulate, proclaim, and protect the Gospel of Christ. 

Sufficiency of Scripture: (Sola Scriptura) the bible requires everything God requires us to know. 

Authority of Scripture: As God is the ultimate and supreme authority, His words are not to be taken as anything less than the authoritative standard by which life is to be lived. 

COMMUNITY

Redemptive Relationships: To provide opportunities for people to engage in redemptive relationships. 

Loving Discipleship: To disciple people towards a love for God, and a love for people. 

Biblical Unity: To build Christ centered fellowship, allowing us to demonstrate unity as a model to our people, and a testimony to others. 

Transformative Identity: To find our identity in Christ leading us to be a community where self-righteousness gives way to faith righteousness, where people are loved as they are, but loved too much to let them stay that way. 

MISSION

Cultural Engagement: To engage the world for the sake of the Gospel, and the furtherance of the kingdom of God. 

Gospel Outreach: To seek creative ways to share the Gospel in our community and around the world. Partnering with like-minded people and ministries to foster a city-wide church planting movement. 

Culture of Evangelistic Faithfulness: To cultivate a culture of evangelistic faithfulness by praying for opportunities, taking opportunities, and making opportunities to share the gospel.   

The Mission of God

All things exist and are being worked according to the triune God’s passion, pleasure and plan (Ephesians 1:11), which is the demonstration of His own intrinsic glory. God creates, calls, rescues, redeems, saves, restores, restrains and grants all to the end that He might be praised. His desire, which He will surely fulfill, is that the knowledge of His glory would cover the earth as the waters do the sea (Habakkuk 2:14). God’s mission is the manifestation of His magnificence. His mission is glory.

What is the glory of God? The glory of God is the gravity that keeps those who see and savor it from spinning off into the spacious trivialities of sin. God’s desire is that He might be known and enjoyed for His nature and character. He seeks to be recognized as supremely valuable, supremely worthy and supremely splendid. God’s glory is sensed when we feel the reality of His presence, goodness and superiority.

Isaiah 48:9-11, Ephesians 1:3-14, Isaiah 43:6-7, Ezekiel 20:14

The Mission of the Church

The mission of the Church universal is to glorify God by making disciples through the gospel of Jesus Christ. God’s mission and the mission of His Church are inseparably linked. If God’s mission is to be glorified through the redemption and reconciliation of a people, the Church’s mission must orient around the glory of God and seek to glorify Him through redemption and reconciliation.

The mission of the Church is highlighted in 2 Corinthians 5. As those who have been reconciled to God through the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are now ambassadors of reconciliation to a lost and broken world. We plead, urge, implore, reason, pray, serve, preach, teach and gather to see God glorified through reconciliation.