Our purpose in life as individuals is to glorify the Triune God through who we are and all that we do!
Our mission as a church is to proclaim Christ and make disciples. Our disciple making strategy focuses on four relational contexts (see below) to make disciples who make disciples who strive to be led by the Holy Spirit and study the Bible for understanding and application.
1) Large Group – During large groups, disciples worship the Triune God, participate in the ordinances, serve one another, and learn the Word of God for understanding and application both corporately and individually. Large groups happen primarily on Sundays in the morning and evening (Luke 4:16-30).
2) Small Group – Small groups focus on creating individual relationships in the body of Christ with a discussion-based study of the Bible. Using the COMA method, disciples learn to become Bible self-feeders. Small groups include Sunday school, Wednesday study groups, and other small groups throughout the week (Mark 9:33-37).
3) Micro Groups – We underscore the importance of micro groups, where believers walk in formal disciple making relationships with 3 to 5 others of the same sex. These gender-specific relationships allow individuals to go deeper, with greater accountability, built on conversations around the Word of God that produce Christlike transformation in each other (Mat 17:1-13).
4) Individual Relationships
- Each disciple of Christ must have an intimate personal relationship (vertical) with the Triune God. This relationship must grow with each person being transformed into the image of Christ. This relationship includes prayer, fasting, meditation, and personal Bible study (Mark 1:35).
- Disciples also have individual (horizontal) relationships with other image-bearers of God, including believers and unbelievers (John 4:1-30).
- Relationships with unbelievers are opportunities to share the gospel and be salt and light. We form these relationships “as we go” through life with intentionality on evangelism and loving our neighbor.
- Individual relationships include opportunities to disciple and be discipled. These relationships are not limited to the local church and allow believers to live out the “one another” imperatives and experience the Paul, Barnabas, and Timothy relationships found in the NT.
We believe that the degree to which one fully engages with all four relational contexts will impact the degree to which one grows as a follower of Christ. More engagement will result in greater growth. Conversely, the less one engages in all four relational contexts, the less one will grow as a disciple.
