Vision and Values
Our vision
As a community of believers in Jesus, our vision is to be a people who obey the great commandment to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” Matt 22v37,and to play our part in helping to fulfil the great commission to “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” Matt 28v19
Our values.
As a church, we believe that our Core Values, how we work to implement our vision, are focused around the following:
1. The Word of God
We seek to worship, honour and obey Jesus, the living word of God – the revelation of who God is, his nature, character and being. To do this we value the Bible, the written word of God, believing that God speaks to us through it as the basis and foundation for all we think and do.[1]”
2. Prayer
We seek to be a church that relies on the Lord and His power through prayer believing He can do far more than we can ask or imagine. Through prayer, by faith, we believe that God can "move mountains" [2]
3. Grace
As individual people and as a community, we live and rejoice in the undeserved love of God. to us. We try to live in and through God's grace to us in Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit and show this same grace to others.[3]
4. Discipleship
Again both as individual people, but rooted in relationship, we are called to be disciples or apprentices, and as a church seeking Him in corporate worship; obeying His command to make disciples of all nations, living to please Him in all things:
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Living lives filled with the Holy Spirit with the gifts God has given us.
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Worshipping God passionately in our whole lives
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Proclaiming the good news of Jesus to those around us, joining with God's plan to reach a broken and hurting world
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Loving one another, valuing and serving each other, forgiving one another, speaking the truth in love, supporting one another as family, eating, sharing, and praying with one another[4]
[1]John 1:14, Heb 1:2, Rev 19:13
[2]Rom 12:12, Eph 3:20
[3]Rom 5:21, Eph2:7..
[4]Matt 28:19.., Col 2:6, Rom 12:1, Gal 5,6, Rom 12:10…