Making Mature Disciples

How do we accomplish the task of making mature disciples?

We believe that the following five “pillars” are fundamental to making mature disciples:

Biblical Preaching & Teaching

We seek to convey God’s Truth through preaching and teaching that:

• Is unashamedly centered on Jesus Christ.
• Is both biblically accurate and engaging to the heart.
• Emphasizes the fundamentals of the Bible while being gracious regarding secondary issues.
• Demonstrates humility before the Word of God (even preachers and teachers still need Jesus). 

Equipping the Saints

We seek to apply God’s Truth such that:

• God’s Truth is seen as understandable to people of various ages and at various stages of their Christian walk.
• God’s Truth is seen as relevant to the needs, struggles and conflicts of everyday life in a broken world.
• God’s people learn to rightly handle God’s Truth such that they are able to live it out in Gospel service in various settings.

Accountable Biblical Community

 We seek to live out God’s truth in community by:

• Recognizing that we are not a business but rather a community of faith that is united to the larger, global body of Christ.
• Recognizing our need for greater accountability in promoting godliness.
• Working to promote and sustain the health of families.
• Seeking to encourage one another with grace instead of the threat of legalism.
• Looking for ways to love and serve one another.
• Appropriately honoring all members of our community, both male and female, at every age and stage of life. 
• Understanding the need for smaller community units (such as Covenant Groups and Journey groups) for living in a broken world.
• Providing timely, compassionate and humble spiritual oversight by Elders.
• Providing ministries of mercy through Deacons.

Missional Living

We seek to Live God’s Truth locally and globally by:

• Seeking to see lost men and women become disciples who will in turn go and make new disciples.
• Developing and maintaining ministries of word and deed to the destitute and helpless.
• Encouraging evangelism through our personal day to day relationships.
• Engaging all of life with the message of Jesus, including arts, government, social & economic issues, racial reconciliation, etc.
• Maintaining an increasingly focused missionary effort that includes substantial giving and the building of long-term relationships with indigenous churches.
• Sustaining support, fellowship and influence in the Presbyterian Church of America.

Seeking the Face of God

We seek to live lives of worship and prayer by:

• More and more relying on the Holy Spirit to lead us.
• Trusting God as a good father to whom we can take all of our needs, desires and requests.
• Recognizing that as a good Father, God does not turn us away nor give us what is harmful. Instead, He is always working for our good even though at times that requires that he discipline us or refrain from giving us what we think we want.
• Emphasizing the priority of personal and corporate prayer.
• Seeking God on behalf of others; including the lost, the sick, the hurting, the distressed, governments and world events.
• Recognizing that all of life, our vocations and our recreations, is an act of worship.
• Emphasizing the particular importance of corporate worship on the Lord’s Day (Sunday) as commanded in the Bible.


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