Our Values

At the end of the age, billions of Christians from every tribe, tongue, and nation surrounded by powerful angelic beings will sing together in one voice with all their might to the praise of God’s glorious grace (Rev. 7:9–12).
This is the destiny of all believers: corporate worship that will literally shake the foundations of heaven and earth. It will be beautifully united, deeply reverent, and full of holy zeal. We long for our present worship to be a picture of this future reality. We want to worship “like we will in heaven.”

Trees are strong and capable of enduring heavy windstorms; chaff is lightweight, and any little puff can blow it away. Trees planted near streams of water can bear fruit even in dry seasons; chaff is dead and can produce nothing. Psalm 1 teaches us that whether we’ll be a strong, life-giving tree, or a lightweight, dead piece of chaff is dependent on our devotion to God’s Word and prayer.
The one who delights in and meditates day and night on God’s Word in prayer will be like a tree; the one who doesn’t will be like chaff. We yearn to be trees—to be those who read, pray, study, meditate, memorize, and depend on God’s Word for life more than our daily food. We want to be “Psalm 1 people.”

The gospel shows us that God spared nothing to give us everything (Rom. 8:31; 2 Cor. 8:9). The radical generosity of God makes us ask, “why?” Why would God give so much to us, even though we gave nothing to Him? The answer is simple: “For God so loved the world that He gave…” (Jn. 3:16).
We want to imitate our Father in giving so radically of our time, talent, and treasure “until they have to ask why”—why do you give so generously, why do you serve so selflessly, why do you forgive so freely, so then we can say, “because of the love of Christ Jesus.”

Whether rich or poor, whether sick or healthy, whether old or young, Jesus welcomes all to come, eat and drink without price at the Lord’s Table (Lk. 15:1-2). As Christ has welcomed us, we want to regularly invite family, neighbors, and strangers into our church and into our homes for fellowship and shared meals. We want to always be “making room at the table.”

A good “friend loves at all times” (Prov. 17:17), “sticks closer than a brother,” (Prov. 18:24), and functions how “iron sharpens iron” (Prov. 27:17). “Two are better than one,” the preacher of Ecclesiastes says, because “if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!” (4:9, 10).
A faithful friend is one of the greatest sources of strength and joy in the Christian life. That’s why we want to have a culture where every member is intentionally cultivating “at least one” friendship where he or she can honestly confess sin and talk about real struggles while being loved, challenged, and prayed for.

Status, comfort, safety, health, money, relationships—there was nothing the apostle Paul, the greatest evangelist ever apart from Jesus, would not risk to share the gospel, because whatever he might lose, he already “counted as loss for the sake of Christ,” so that his life principle became “to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
This is the “nothing to lose, everything to gain” mindset that we want our church family to embrace as we step out in faith to tell our non-Christian family, friends, and neighbors about Jesus.

The disciples heard Jesus teach on prayer and then watched him pray. They heard Jesus teach on mercy and then watched him touch lepers. They heard Jesus teach on loving his enemies and then watched him get crucified.
Jesus shared not just his beliefs, but also the example of his whole life. We call this “life-on-life discipleship”—the process of learning how to follow Jesus by imitating the example of another mature Christian. We long to have what we call a “be one, make one” culture where every member is committed to being a disciple and making disciples, so that each of us can humbly say, “Follow me as I follow Christ” (1 Cor. 11:1).

Every single day approximately 66,000 people die without ever hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ, and they will never hear unless we go tell them (Rom. 10:14–17).
We want to be a church urgently committed to sending and partnering with missionaries around the world to proclaim the gospel, make disciples, and gather these disciples into local churches “until the whole world hears.”

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