Core Values
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Every person has value and we value every person
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Every believer is encouraged to be involved in Church life
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Every believer influencing our community for Christ
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Every believer being transformed by the Holy Spirit through prayer and the Word of God
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Every believer taking opportunities to share Christ
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Every believer to have an ongoing relationship with God and with others
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Every believer yoked (teamed up) with Christ and with one another
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Our function, purpose and
culture come out of our relationship with God the
Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and secondly
with each other.
Our Christian lives will be ones that impact our world.
We will do this by being bold in our faith - believing
that what God says is true and acting on that truth, our
character being one of generosity - God designed life to
be of the nature of giving and as such we will
demonstrate His plans, purposes and Kingdom by giving
our life away for His Glory; following the greatest
commandment by Love - loving God with everything within
us and our neighbour as ourselves.
WORSHIP
Worship is a response from the heart. Genuine worship,
like love can never be enforced by command. God wants it
to be the expressions of a heart touched by His Spirit.
Worship is an offering. We bring ourselves. We give what
no one else can give: our time, our love, our voices,
and our hearts. As we worship, we offer something of
priceless vlaue that actually brings God pleasure.
Worship is an encounter. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and
Eve had an amazing relationship with God. Adam talked
with God and could sense when He was around. Since this
relationship is now damaged through our disobedience to
God, God has made provision, through His Son, for a new
relationship.
LOVE
In accordance with Matthew 22:37-39 our love will grow
and become all God intended.
Matthew 22:37-39
37Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and
with all your mind.' 38"This is the first and
great commandment.
39"And the second is like it: 'You shall love
your neighbour as yourself'…"
GIVING
We believe that God is our source and our provider. The
standard of generosity was set in the Old Testament by
Abraham who gave a 'tithe of all' (Genesis 14:18-20) and
was confirmed and extended to a greater level as
described in the New Testament (Hebrews 7:8-10 and 2
Corinthians 9:6-15). We believe in tithes as a minimum
and then offerings as determined in 2 Corinthians 9:7.
Genesis 14:18-2o
18Then Melchizedek King of Salem brought out
bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.
19And he blessed him and said: "Blessed be
Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
20And blessed be God Most High, Who has
delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him
a tithe of all.
Hebrews 7:8-10
8Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he
receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
9Even Levi, who receives tithes, paid tithes
through Abraham, so to speak,
10for He was still in the loins of his father
when Melchizedek met him.
2 Corinthians 9:6-15
6But this I say: He who sows sparingly will
also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will
also reap bountifully.
7So let each one give as he purposes in his
heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a
cheerful giver.
8And God is able to make all grace abound
toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in
all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
9As it is written: "He has dispersed abroad,
He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures
forever."
10Now may He who supplies seed to the sower,
and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you
have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
11while you are enriched in everything for
all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to
God.
12For the administration of this service not
only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is
abounding through many thanksgivings to God,
13while, through the proof of this ministry,
they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to
the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with
them and all men,
14and by their prayer for you, who long for
you because of the exceeding grace of God in you.
15Thanks be to God for His indescribable
gift!
SERVING
As described in Romans 12:3-21 we believe each of us has
a call to servc the other in accordance with the gifts,
skills and abilities God has given us.
Romans 12:3-21
3For I say, through the grace given to me, to
everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more
highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as
God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
4For as we have many members in one body, but
all the members do not have the same function,
5so we, being many, are one body in Christ,
and invididually members of one another.
6Having then gifts differing according to the
grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy,
let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;
7or ministry, let us use it in our
ministering; he who teaches, in teaching;
8he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who
gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he
who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is
evil. Cling to what is good.
10Be kindly affectionate to one another with
brotherly love, in honour giving preference to one
another;
11not lagging in diligence, fervent in
spirit, serving the Lord;
12rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation,
continuing steadfastly in prayer;
13distributing to the needs of the saints,
given to hospitality.
14Bless those who persecute you; bless and do
not curse.
15Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep
with those who weep.
16Be of the same mind toward one another. Do
not set your mind on high things, but associate with the
humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.
17Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for
good things in the sight of all men.
18If it is possible, as much as depends on
you, live peaceably with all men.
19Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but
rather give place to wrath; for it is written,
"Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.
20Therefore "if your enemy is hungry, feed
him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink' for in so doing
you will heap coals of fire on his head."
21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome
evil with good.
