About Us

This summarizes the mission statement outlined by Jesus Christ to his disciples in John 15. As we abide [believe more deeply] in Christ (15:1-11), self-sacrificing love draws believers into community (15:12-17), for the on-going mission, empowered and humbled by the Spirit, to witness Christ’s love to a Christ-rejecting world (15:18-25).

Believing Christ

We are committed to understanding the message of Jesus Christ (the Gospel) more deeply that we might more deeply believe in and experience Jesus Christ.

I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might.

(Ephesians 1:16-19 ESV)

The Gospel is the plot line that runs throughout the entire Bible.

It is the message of Christ’s world-conquering kingdom reversing the effects of sin entering and scarring God’s creation. The Gospel itself is a power that makes us right before God and continues to nourish faith in believers to access all the benefits of Christ’s death-judgment on the cross for them.

Knowing Jesus Christ personally is why we were created.

Only through the collaborative resources of God’s Word (i.e. the Bible), God’s Spirit and God’s People (i.e. the Church) can we meet and grow in relationship with Jesus Christ.

We are committed to living in community: intentionally building relationships of love where we know each other and the gospel well enough to build each other up.

Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint  with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

(Ephesians 4:15-16  ESV)

God saves us out of darkness and places us into a community.

The church is not a restaurant for individual consumers it is a body of interdependent parts requiring a corporate allegiance. Our growth in Christ-likeness, not my growth in Christ-likeness, is the focus that creates community. Individual growth is a community project.

Building community is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the church today.

The loss of the extended family and a consumer mentality has a toxic affect on community creation. But as we grow nearer to Christ, we love what He loves—the Bride (i.e. the Church), and sacrifice ourselves to enhance her corporate beauty (Ephesians 5:25-27).

We are committed to the mission of Jesus Christ to make disciples of all the nations.

And Jesus came and said to his disciples, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

(Matthew 28:18-20  ESV)

Mission flows out of a community that deeply believes in Christ.

Mission is not simply a major component of what Christians do—it is a natural consequence of who we are near: light can’t help but radiate out from us when we are together being transformed by the Light

Making disciples means intentionally communicating both the life-giving words and works of Christ.

Mission involves the proclamation (making visible) of Christ in both word and deed. Evangelism, compassion, justice, and stewardship of all nations is embedded in what it means to teach ‘them to observe all that I commanded you.’ Jesus didn’t compartmentalize or prioritize these aspects of mission they simply flowed out of his heart depending upon the circumstances he encountered.