What We Value
1. God the Father
Perfect God and Lord of our lives. All knowing, all powerful. Perfect moral being: God is love. (1 John 4: 16)
2. Jesus Christ
The exact representation of the Father. The perfect being, without sin. The Father’s love personified. Our Saviour - The one giving us relationship with God the Father and the Holy Spirit.
3. The Holy Spirit
God’s life in us. Source of comfort. Source of help and guidance. Guide to truth. Source of power. Source of the nine Gifts of the Spirit (1 Cor. 12: 4 – 11)
4. The Bible
Revelation of God and His purposes. Source of complete wisdom and truth. The final authority on all issues.
5. Prayer
Talking to God, hearing from God, learning His ways and will for us. Developing relationship with God. Allowing the Holy Spirit to minister in and through our life.
6. The Church
The body of Christ, made up of individuals with distinctive gifts and ministries, each honoring what the other is able to do. The body wherein individuals are taught and discipled in the ways of God. The body which manifests the love of Christ to one another. The body which manifests the love of Christ to the world. The body which professes Christ’s salvation and kingdom to the world. The body which attacks the works of the devil in the world.
7. The Family
The family is the primary and most important unit in our society. The family is the most important structure through which Christian virtues and faith are established in individuals’ lives.
Our Moral Values
1. Love
1.1 We esteem the intrinsic value and preciousness of every person, as beings made by God, in His image.
1.2 We respect the inviolability of each person’s conscience.
1.3 We acknowledge the right of each individual to freedom of thought and choice regarding the opinions of others.
1.4 We believe in the primacy of love in our treatment of every person.
1.5 We believe in expressing love as it is characterized in the Bible, particularly in 1 Cor. 13.
1.6 We place priority on the development of loving relationships with others.
1.7 We place priority on meeting others “where they are at”, on meeting them in their world rather than demanding they come into ours.
2. Integrity – Faithfulness
2.1 We esteem honesty before God.
2.2 We esteem personal integrity, reflected in earnest endeavour to be obedient to God’s ways and laws as outlined in scripture (in particular The Ten Commandments Ex 20: 1 – 17), and to be obedient also to our Spirit-quickened conscience.
2.3 We esteem reliability and faithfulness in our dealings with others. We should do what we say we will do.
2.4 We esteem honesty in all our dealings with others.
2.5 We esteem obedience to human government, unless it conflicts with God’s law.
2.6 We esteem courage to confess the truth in adverse situations.
3. Humility – Readiness to Forgive
3.1 We esteem humility, as found in Jesus, (Phil. 2: 7 – 8), which lifts up God instead of self, and gives preference to others.
3.2 We esteem servanthood, which is a fruit of humility. (Luke 22: 27) 3.3 We esteem a forgiving heart, which is a fruit of humility.
3.4 We esteem mutual submission, one to another.
4. Perseverance - Hope
4.1 We esteem perseverance in the pursuit of relationship with God, and in the development of Christlike character, in particular as expressed in the Fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5: 21 – 22) and The Beatitudes (Matt. 5: 3 – 9).
4.2 We value perseverance in “going on to perfection” in all ways, in striving for excellence in all areas of life.
