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OUR DISTINCTIVES AND PRINCIPLES Attributes of a Glorious Church
1. We are a Worshiping Church We are a Church that consistently takes part in experiences of God’s love and forgiveness and is unashamed to present our love to God. As a Church, we seek to lead others to truly see, hear and experience God’s presence and to show how they, too, can be confident in discovering, responding and expressing their love to God.2. We are a Healing Church We are a Church that testifies of the wholeness that God gives to the hurt, the sick and the lost. As a Church, we recognize the power and willingness of the Great Physician to heal the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual wounds of every man, woman and child and thus undertake to be used as both testimonies and instruments of His healing.3. We are a Soul-Winning Church We are a Church whose heart is to see each man with the eyes of eternity. As a Church, we witness for our Lord and teach others to witness for the Lord so that, for eternity’s sake, souls are won not just for the Kingdom but for the King of kings.4. We are a Praying Church We are a Church whose backbone is prayer. As a Church, we, along with others in the Body of Christ, plot with the Lord in prayer for the battles that have yet to be fought but are already won.5. We are a Visionary Church We are a Church that looks toward the future. As a Church, we concede the futility of walking and planning without God’s revelation. Hence, we endeavor, by example, to show the way to others so that, they too, can live out lives governed by vision.6. We are a Spirit-Filled Church We are a Church whose way of life is to seek out the Spirit’s baptism as well as His anointing in everything – sharing, preaching, writing, teaching, praying, listening, performing, and so forth. As a Church, we educate others to guide them into resolving for themselves that any ministry without the flight plan of the Spirit is a misdirected ministry that will never really hit God’s mark.7. We are a Nation-loving Church We are a Church whose conviction is that our own nation is our God-given Jerusalem. As a Church, we’ve made it our drilled principle to be uncompromising about God’s statutes for our country so that, by honoring Him in every pillar – government, business and economics, education, science and technology, media and entertainment, arts, church and family - we can persuade and disciple others to also choose to be instruments in freeing our nation from its curse of corruption, poverty, violence and immorality.8. We are a Faith-filled Church We are a Church that trusts in the revealed truths of God. As a Church, we steadfastly devote ourselves in leading others to believe, with confidence, in who and what God is, that is, to have authentic faith. |
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