Our vision and values
Our Vision may be summarized as follows:
- Living with a purpose
- Loving Jesus and our neighbours
- Belonging to a distinctive Christian community
We see ourselves as part of a long line of people who have sought to return to the roots of the Christian faith and let that understanding govern our life together. We are united by what is central to the Christian faith and strengthened by our diversity.
We believe worship is more than simply singing songs together. It is about living our daily lives in gratitude, grace and hope, and celebrating all of our life as sacred to God.
We believe God calls Christians into a local community so that we can live out His life-transforming message. When this happens, it’s called ‘the church’. Fellowship happens when we chose to love and belong to God’s family.
We know that God loves us as we are, but that he loves us too much to leave us that way. Everyone who follows Jesus desires to become like him. We call this process discipleship.
We are saved to serve, and God has gifted us to enable us to do this. We serve God by serving one another; this is called ministry.
Jesus came to re-connect people who had lost their relationship with God. Jesus calls everyone who follows him to care as much about this as he does. We call this evangelism. It is not about ‘preaching at people’ but about ‘being a witness’ and sharing what we have discovered about God.
Led by the Spirit of God, we are passionate about relieving suffering and fighting injustice, joining the God of the oppressed in living out the transforming message of the resurrected Jesus. Jesus calls his church to be a compelling force for good in the world. We call this mission.
