CORE VALUES

( What we believe is of great importance )

 Truth                We value God’s truth and all subsequent truth that points to and supports it.

 Trust                We value faith in Jesus Christ, a sincere trust in God that He is Who He claims to be and will do all that He promises to do.  We therefore also value having trust in His children who follow Him.

 Love                We value true love that comes from God, is evidenced in Christ’s death for us and is produced in us by His Spirit.  The primary trait of God’s love is the sacrifice of one’s self for God’s purposes and the people He loves.  Love values the individual because they are made in His image.

 Forgiveness     We value the mercy which God has shown to us by not punishing us according to what we deserve.  God did not ignore sin in His mercy, but rather He absorbed its horrific consequences. Thus we value genuine forgiveness as an empowerment and reflection of God.

 Grace               We value grace as the benevolent favor of God whereby He gives to us freely that which we have not earned and do not deserve.  Grace is the only way by which a church can thrive.  Grace makes us value people not because they deserve it, but because God has first shown it to us.

 Integrity                       We value honest, open lives that reflect the values and power of an Almighty God working in the life of a sinful man.  We believe that our yes should be yes and no should be no.

 Commitment    We place great value in believing that there are some things that are greater than our personal lives and these things, especially God’s things, are worth committing to with a promise that we will give our very best.  We believe that commitment produces accountability and motivation.

 Family             We believe that God has created the family in the image of His own plurality; that the family is the foundation of society and that it is God’s means by which we find our most basic needs met through human relationships.  It is, therefore, worth all of the effort to protect, strengthen and preserve.

 Fellowship       We believe that joy and laughter are the creation of God and that He has given these to us for the benefit of our spiritual man.  We believe that bringing people together for the sake of enjoying our commonly shared worlds, both spiritual and human, will produce a better quality of life.

 Hope                We value the promise of there being a better tomorrow.  God told us that it was in hope that we turned to God for salvation He has promised that there will always be hope.  We value the belief that the best is yet to come and that we can look forward with anticipation to the goodness of God.