Love God
We seek to love and know God. As we discover God is a loving parent and friend, we experience confidence, encouragement, guidance, and security. God loves and therefore our response is to love God.
Love People
We want to love all people- to be motivated, encouraged, and speak truth in love to build others up. We seek to resolve conflict with love and make amends with the past. Since the Christian faith is relational, we will benchmark our maturity based on the health of our relationships.
We accept the challenge of the apostle Peter in 2 Peter 1:5-7 … “Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone”
Grow Character
We seek to grow in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control; this is what God produces in us when we yield ourselves to him. This personal aspect of growth is all about love; and to love God means to trust his Spirit to produce these fruits in us. This character growth isn’t just personal joy or peace; but joy and peace that can be offered in love toward others.
Serve Always
Every person has a unique role to play in God’s plans, but never alone; rather as a unique part of a unified effort with others, we re-present to the world what Christ is like as one body. Each of us has been given resources – unique gifts and abilities, finances or possessions, and available time to use under God’s direction to love and serve him by uniting together to love and serve one another.
