Our Mission Values
DEPENDENT ON THE SPIRIT
We believe that God the Holy Spirit is the One who brings about spiritual life and growth through his sovereign grace. While we participate in the work of advancing the gospel by making disciples who make disciples, the results are brought about by God. This means that our ministry as a church must be marked by a humble and trusting dependence on the working of God's Spirit through prayer.
ROOTED IN THE BIBLE
We believe that the Word of God is the primary tool that the Holy Spirit uses to do the work of bringing people to become forgiven followers of Jesus and cause them to grow to become like him. We base all of our ministry around the Bible as authoritative and sufficient. This means that we read and preach directly from the Bible every week, as well as seek to organize all our ministry around the Word of God.
CENTERED ON THE GOSPEL
We believe that the gospel is the power of God for salvation in every tense: past, present and future. We need the gospel just as much now as believers as we did before we knew Christ. We seek to center everything we believe and do on the Bible’s core message: the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and its implications for our lives. This means that we talk about Jesus and the power of His gospel—a lot.
DEVOTED TO ONE ANOTHER
We believe that while being a follower of Jesus is always personal, it's never private. Discipleship happens in the context of commitment to a local church, in which we can be devoted to one another in love. This means we encourage everyone in our congregation to be devoted to regular relationships with other Christians in which they can love, serve, encourage, teach and grow with one another.
FOCUSED ON THE MISSION
We believe that healthy disciples will make disciples. Every follower of Jesus is called by God to be a part of the Church’s mission of multiplying disciples. This means that our ministry efforts are aimed at equipping every Christian to proclaim and teach the gospel and to live out its implications in our own lives, our homes, our congregation, our community, our region and around the world.