What Are Our Goals?
By grace, through faith, we aim to pursue:
Relationships of Love
We will take new practical steps to develop communities where personal, deepening, supportive, faith-building relationships of love are highly valued as expressions of our passion for the supremacy of God's love.
Urban-Suburban Partnership
We will strive to forge a mutually enriching urban-suburban partnership, in which a significant range of racially, educationally, and economically diverse people feel at home as they grow in their passion for the supremacy of God.
Interracial Reconciliation
Against the rising spirit of indifference, alienation, and hostility in our land, we will embrace the supremacy of God's love to take new steps personally and corporately toward racial reconciliation, expressed visibly in our community and in our church. (See our suggested racial harmony reading list).
Diversity in God-Centered Worship
Saturday evening and Sunday morning worship services are a corporate expression of our passion for the supremacy of God. We sense God's leading to develop fresh expressions of this passion that
- allow for a more focused and free lingering of love in the presence of the Lord;
- reflect musically the diversity of our congregation and our metropolitan culture; and
- interweave the values of intense God-centeredness and more personal ministry to each other in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Good News to the Poor
We will develop new strategies for proclaiming the all-satisfying supremacy of God's love and justice to the poor through 1) personal involvement; 2) a more welcoming atmosphere; 3) local missionary strategies of urban disciple making; and 4) equipping missionaries.
Challenging Church and Culture with the Truth
We will challenge our culture and the wider Christian movement in fresh ways with the biblical truth of God's all-satisfying supremacy, by courageous Christian action and speech in the secular world.