In response to the Gospel of Jesus, we desire to be a family of believers in Jesus that worship God in all of life, love one another as a family, and serve together on God’s mission of making disciples in all the world.
RESPONSE
Scripture teaches us that all of life is to be lived in response to Jesus. All of salvation is of God; therefore all of our good works are a response to Him and His work for us and in us. We are given the gift of responding to God with a genuine faith that is expressed in love toward God (worship), the Church (Family), and those that do not know Him (mission). This is the life that Jesus intended.
GOSPEL
We aspire to be all about Jesus because Gods story in scripture is all about Jesus. Jesus, in obedience to His Father and love for humanity, the eternal Son became human: the Word became flesh, fully God and fully human, one Person in two natures, to be a substitute and representative for sinful humanity in His life, death, resurrection and ascension. Jesus lived the life we could never live to earn a right standing with God for us. Jesus died the death we should have died to appease God’s wrath toward us and forgive us our sin. Jesus rose again bodily, granting us eternal life by breaking the power of death and defeating Satan who once had power over it. Jesus ascended to the right hand of the Father where He has been forever exalted as Lord and has prepared a place for us to be with him. The Father and the Son sent the Holy Spirit to indwell us bodily, empower us to be His witnesses, and transform us into His image. Jesus will one day come again to perfect us body and spirit, put away Satan, sin, and suffering, and bring a new heaven and new earth where we will dwell with God in perfect peace forever. Scripture alone is our ultimate authority, and it teaches us that all the benefits of this Gospel is given by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone, to the glory of God alone.
We desire to be a family that lives all of life centered around the Gospel.
WORSHIP
Worship is a response to God and His gospel. A Response of faith, which is expressed in pursuing to know, love, and obey God in all of life. Worship is not constrained by a song or dependent on a day of the week, but it is an attitude of ones heart that is expressed in gratefulness, dependence, and adoration of God in all circumstances and situations of life.
We desire to be a family that lives all of life in worship to God.
FAMILY
Living all of life in community with God’s family is a response to God and His Gospel. A response of faith that is expressed in a love for one another as family just as we are loved by God as our Father. We are not a family because we always act like it, but we are a family because God is our Father, so we hope to act like it. In response to how God serves, comforts, and encourages us, we get to serve, comfort, and encourage one another. A community like this is a community that we were made for, and it is a community that Jesus died to purchase.
We desire to be a family that lives all of life as God's community.
MISSION
Living all of life with God, His people, and on His mission is a response to God and His Gospel. Just as Jesus was sent into the world, so we are sent together, by God, into our world to make disciples by displaying God’s gospel in all we say and do. We are not missionaries because we always act like it, but we are missionaries because the Spirit has been given to us to be witnesses to Jesus, so lets act like it. Living on God’s mission simply looks like a family of ordinary people, living ordinary lives, with gospel intentionality. Gospel intentionality is living life in response to the gospel as our means and with the gospel as our message.