Our Values.
Worship
Once we personally encounter the love of God, everything about us will be moved to worship Him. The people of God love His presence, and welcome Him into every aspect of their lives. We worship Him with extravagance and gratitude. We want to be joyful, radical lover of Jesus! Worship calls God’s Kingdom and power to manifest and facilitate an environment where people are set free, healed, and radically changed as they encounter God!
2 Chron 7:3; 2 Sam 6:14; Ps. 150:6; Jer 32:38; John 4:23; 1 Cor 14:25; 1 Tim 2:8; Rev 4:11Scripture
Scripture is the story of God pursuing relationship with us. It invites us into a personal experience with Him, by revealing His great love for us! It provides Logos—eternal truth for our lives. Scripture is rightly understood with the help of the Spirit, who helps us understand and apply it to our lives.
Ps 119:9-11; Isa 40:8; Acts 10:44; Acts 20:32; Gal 6:17; Eph 5:26; 1 Cor 2:4, 13; 1 Thes 1:5; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21Grace & Truth
Jesus is full of grace and full of truth. Grace and Truth cannot be separated; they are on the same side. They are found in one man Jesus Christ. Jesus taught us that He is the way the truth, and the life. All truth must be found in Him and based in Him. Grace is the Father receiving Jesus Christ in our place. All Grace is found in Him.
John 1:14, 17; John 4:24; John 14:6; John 15:26; Acts 15:8-11; Rom 3:24; Rom 11:6; Eph 2:8; 2 Tim 1:9Kingdom of God
Jesus talks about the kingdom more than any other topic. He lived from Kingdom reality, allowing what is true in heaven to direct Him rather than what is apparent here on earth. He taught us to live from the Kingdom in the same way by loosing what is in Heaven upon the earth and binding what is not in Heaven upon this earth now. He taught us, “your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,” this is how every believer is to pray and live.
Matt 6:10; Matt 16:19; Matt 24:14; John 5:19; John 16:13Spiritual Destiny
People need to know that Jesus died for them to bring them salvation, but this is only the beginning! Jesus calls each of us to our Spiritual Destiny as His Sons and Daughters. He came to give us abundant life, not just get us by. The words of the Father in Luke 15:31 are ” ‘My son,’ everything I have is yours.” This is the full good news everyone needs to hear and live in.
Mark 10:30; Luke 4:18-21; John 6:63; John 10:10; Rom 8:15, 17; 1 Cor 2:9-10; Gal 4:6; Eph 1:3; 1 John 3:1Baptism & Gifting of the Spirit
Spiritual Gifts are the tools that allow us to fulfill our Spiritual Destiny in Christ Jesus. They are gifts that are not earned. Scripture tells us to eagerly desire them. The church is a Spiritual body, and spiritual things can only be spiritually discerned, so spiritual gifts are often misunderstood by those who do not have spiritual eyes to see. Jesus gives these gifts with the Baptism of the Spirit and it enables the church to do the impossible in bold faith.
Luke 3:16; John 16:13-15; Acts 1:3-8; Acts 8:15-17; Acts 19:1-7; 1 Cor 2:14; 1Cor 12:1, 7-11; Gal 3:1-5Faith
Faith releases the supernatural in our lives. We are called to live by bold faith. We believe faith is to God what fear is to the devil. So we constantly focus our hearts on what God IS doing rather than what He is not doing. We believe that when we have faith and do not fear we can move mountains, tumors, injury, hopelessness, addictions, brokenness, fear, and everything else the devil uses against us.
Matt 9:29; Matt 21:21; Mark 11:22-23; Luke 7:9; Luke 18:8; John 14:12; Rom 14:23; James 1:6-8Testimony
We remember & tell the story of what the Lord has done in the past and is presently doing! This builds our faith that God will work on our behalf again. We invite the Lord to act on our behalf when we tell the stories of His faithfulness. We also live life from a different, more faithful perspective when we hold on to the testimonies in our lives.
Gen 35:14-15; Joshua 4:9; 1 Sam 7:12; Ps 66:5-6; Isa 8:16, 20; 1 John 5:10; Rev 12:11; Rev 14:10United Bride
Jesus prayed that His church be one as the Trinity is one. We are the Bride because we are in love with the Bridegroom- this is the qualifying factor. There are many essentials of orthodoxy, which we share in common with all other believers and unite over. We believe doctrine must invite us to greater experience with Jesus, who makes us a radiant, holy, blameless bride by His blood.
Song of Songs 4:9; John 3:29; John 17:21; Ephesians 5:27; Rev 19:7; Rev 22:17