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While the vision tells us what God has called us to do as a church our values tell us how we are to go about it. Our values allow God to stretch us and thereby increase our influence in society and the world.

Our values include issues of character, of faith, of leadership style and of heart. We list twenty-five separate values, which we hold as vital to our church. We encourage you to take the time to read them and research the Scriptural references listed.

1. A people of faith - letting our theology determine all of our lives - we need to truly know and understand our God:

  • Jeremiah 9: 23-24
  • Hosea 6: 3
  • John 7: 17
  • Daniel 11: 32
  • Job 22: 21
    Psalm 33: 10-12
    Hebrews 11 (especially verse 6)
    Romans 10: 6-17
    Romans 4: 16

2. Embracing the 'all' of Christ and surrendering our all to Him - unconditionally:

• Ephesians 4: 12-16
• Colossians 1: 15-20, 28-29
• 2 Corinthians 3: 17-18

3. Preparing the Bride of Christ:

• Ephesians 5: 22-33
• Revelation 19: 7

4. Being radically Word-based - not just preaching the Word but living it out at every level:

• Deuteronomy 4: 1-2
• Revelation 22: 18-19
• Acts 20: 20
• Mark 7: 13
• 1 Samuel 15: 22

5. Building covenantal relationships - embracing friendship, not just function (committed, submitted, serving and preserving one another):

• Acts 2: 42-47
• Hebrews 10: 24-25
• Matthew 18: 15-20
• John 15: 15
• 3 John: 2, 5, 11, 14

6. Embracing the priesthood of all believers - we are all the 'A-team'. All believers evangelising as a lifestyle, all-embracing churches without generational, cultural or gender gaps with the 'majority' carrying the 'minority':• 1 Peter 2: 9

• Exodus 19:6
• 1 Corinthians 12, 13 & 14
• Matthew 19: 14
• 1 Timothy 4: 12
• Acts 1: 14; 2: 32-33 & 42-47
• Titus 2: 1-10
• Romans 15: 16-20

7. Supernaturally natural and naturally supernatural - wild but not weird, demonstrating the authentic life and power of God (not fake or phoney):

• Acts 2: 17-21 & 3: 1-10
• Luke 3: 1-20
• John 2: 12-25 (especially verse 17)

8. Understanding and releasing the anointing - the anointing breaks yokes and changes lives. It is what distinguishes the Church from the world:

• Isaiah 61: 1-3
• 1 John 2: 20, 21
• 2 Corinthians 1: 21-22

9. A people of prayer - with fasting and warfare, personal and corporate:

• Acts 1:14; 2: 42; 4: 24
• 1 Timothy 2: 1-2
• Colossians 4:12

10. A people of character (Psalm 78:72)

• Vulnerability - 2 Corinthians 12: 7-10; 1 Corinthians 4: 9-13
• Teachability - 1 Timothy 4: 16; 1 Timothy 1: 18; 2 Timothy 1: 13-14
• Transparency - Psalm 51: 1-12; 1 John 1: 7-9
• Honesty - Matthew 5: 37; Proverbs 24: 26
• Integrity -1 Kings 9: 4-5; Matthew 22: 16; Titus 2: 7-8
• Purity - Romans 6: 1-2 & 11-14; 1 Timothy 4: 7
• Humility - James 4: 6; Acts 20: 19; Isaiah 66: 2
• Faithfulness - Luke 16: 1-13; 1 Peter 5: 12
• Creativity - Exodus 35: 30 - 36: 2
• Excellence - 2 Corinthians 8: 7; 1 Corinthians 14: 12
• Flexibility - John 3: 8; Acts 16: 6-10
• Passion - John 2: 17; Romans 12: 11
• A model/example to others:
- personal - 1 Peter 2: 21 & 5: 3; 1 Timothy 4: 12; Philippians 3: 17
- corporate - 1 Thessalonians 1: 7; 2 Thessalonians 3: 9

11. Not distracted by every new emphasis - grounded in the truth:

• 1 Timothy 1: 3-7
• Galatians 1: 8-10 & 3: 1
• Hebrews 6: 1-2

12. Biblical freedom - not legalism or licentiousness:• Galatians 5: 1

• 2 Corinthians 3: 17
• John 8: 32-36

13. Total Grace package - understanding, experiencing and extending grace to others:

• Titus 2: 11-12
• Acts4: 33
• 1 Peter 3: 18
• 1Peter 4: 10
• 1 Corinthians 15: 10

14. Bringing all to maturity- teaching people accountability:

• Hebrews 6: 1-2
• James 1: 4
• Philippians 3: 15
• Ephesians 4: 13

15. Financial freedom - debt free living, tithes, offerings, alms, apostolic giving, generous lifestyle:

• Romans 13:8
• Malachi 3: 8-12
• 2 Corinthians 8 & 9
• Deuteronomy 12: 5-19

16. Training and equipping all believers to be leaders - recognize, raise up and release leaders, taking them from dependence to independence and then interdependence:

• Ephesians 4: 12-14
• Exodus 18: 21-23
• Matthew 25: 14-30
• 2 Corinthians 3: 17-18

17. All part of a team - no superstars, all of us working together, at all levels (in plurality):

• Genesis 1: 26 (God)
• Exodus 7:6; 15: 1 & 20 (Moses)
• Mark 3: 13-19 (Jesus)
• Acts 14: 21-28 (Paul)
• Acts 2: 14 (Peter)
• Genesis 1: 26-28 (Marriage is the first team - serving, shaping and sharing together)
• Acts 6: 1-7 (Deacons)
• Acts 15: 22 (Church - leaders and the Body)
• Acts 20: 17-31 (Elders)
• Ephesians 4: 11-16 (Translocal)

18. Building away from ourselves:

• 1 Corinthians 4: 17
• Acts 8: 4-37

19. Placing equal importance on the wine (power/Spirit) and the wineskin (pattern/structure):

• Luke 5: 37-39
• 1 Thessalonians 1: 4-7

20. Preaching the Kingdom of God - it is God's total answer for man's total needs. Preaching the King and the Kingdom and a Kingdom culture:

• Matthew 4: 17 & 23-25
• Ephesians 3: 1-13

21. The restoration of all that was lost, stolen and most needed:

• Acts 3: 21
• Colossians 1: 15-20
• Acts 15: 16

22. Living in the reality of Apostolic/Prophetic ministry:

• Ephesians 2: 19-20 & 4: 11-16
• 1 Corinthians 3: 5-13
• Romans 16

23. Fulfilling the Great Commission - of, to and for all nations:

• Matthew 28: 18-20

24. Going beyond the third generation - continuity and passing the baton to the next generation:

• 2 Timothy 2:2
• Psalm 78: 1-6
• Psalm103: 17
• Deuteronomy 11: 18-25 & 34: 4-9
• John 20: 21-22

25. The Church as God's healing community:

• Revelation 22: 1-6
• Acts 8: 18-25