Values Relating to the Larger Christian Movement and World Outside.pdf

(Bethlehem adopted these values in 1995 as a part of its mission and vision.)

• Sustaining ministries of word and deed to the destitute and homeless.
• Personally and corporately striving toward reconciling inter-racial relationships.
• Engaging in continuous evangelism through our natural web of relationships.
• Empowering lay people to be salt and light at all levels of society.
• Equipping “incubators” to support the “newborns” that God brings forth.
• Aggressively participating in completing the global task of reaching unreached peoples.
• Pursuing continued growth in the number of people who find joy and strength through membership.
• Mentoring future vocational ministers and missionaries.
• Cultivating a ministry mindset of creativity, flexibility, and responsiveness to new needs.
• Relentlessly dreaming of ways to penetrate our urban area with the beautiful truth of Christ.
• Expressing the value of Christians living in suburban and urban neighborhoods and the mutual enrichment and assistance of those Christians in one church.
• Applying field mission strategies to reaching people groups nearby.
• Pursuing a wartime mindset relating to the holocaust of perishing people and the use of our resources.
• Developing careful, clear, fair biblical thinking about contemporary culture.
• Engaging in bold, balanced, winsome confrontation of our cultureʼs clearly unbiblical elements.
• Upholding a strong commitment to a diverse and balanced pro-life engagement with our culture.
• Serving and being enriched by the wider movements of Godʼs Spirit across church and cultural lines.
• Sharing pastoral staff with the wider movement through their writing and speaking.
• Sustaining our support, fellowship, and influence in Converge Worldwide (formerly the Baptist General Conference).