What we would like the church that meets in our home (and beyond if the Lord wills) to look like:
Family Integrated
- Children learning Body Life (community, sharing, confession) and worship (singing, teaching, prayers, testimonies) by sitting with parents.
- Church activities are limited so as not to detract from family worship and devotions (ie: we're not going to offer programs and activities every night of the week).
- We will encourage, resource and help marriages to become healthier.
- We will encourage, resource and help parents to train their children.
- We support, encourage and train gender roles within the Body of Christ and within families beginning in their toddler years (ie: Men toward loving patriarchy, and Ladies toward virtuous womanhood).
- We support the sanctity of human life and honor the not-yet-born by fighting for their rights.
Multi-Generational
- Seniors are given honor in all respects and situations.
- We don't group children (or adults for that matter) together in age-segregated classrooms, but allow for multiple ages in order for children to learn from older children).
Intimate Worship
- We practice spiritual disciplines as a church family.
- We sing a blend of traditional hymns and praise songs in a variety of musical styles.
- We use a variety of multi-sensory experiences in order to concentrate on the Lord Jesus.
- The use of prayer, testimonies / "God Sightings", children's choir/pageants, and memory verses for the whole family will be incorporated.
Equipping / Training
- Expository Bible teaching (Books of the Bible) - 60%
- Topical Expository teaching - 30%
- Topical teaching (as needed) - 10%
- Interactive and relational teaching style
- As God leads the shepherds, so He will communicate through them before the church family (vision-casting).