WHAT WE
BELIEVE
We are watered by the Spirit to grow more like Jesus, such that we can’t help but bring life where we live.
OUR VISION
To bring the life of Jesus and His kingdom wherever we are.
We want to bring the life of Jesus through our values:
LOOK ON THE FACE OF CHRIST
Our faith is not primarily a religion, something we do, but a relationship with the God revealed by Jesus, a God who loves us as children. As we read the Bible, worship and meditate on God’s goodness, we become more like Jesus. Jesus is our source of life, our hope and inspiration helping us to become all we were created to be.
LOVE EVERYONE WE MEET
The reason we were created was to fill the earth with God’s love. The Bible tells us God is love and this is who we are to be like, loving all people in the hope all will be saved. When we love one another we help the world see God and without love we are nothing. In loving one another we make the invisible God visible! We owe everyone an encounter with love.
LIVE LIKE HEAVEN IS NEAR
God has given us the Holy Spirit and empowers each of us to bring a little of heaven to earth. The Holy Spirit is God and so we expect that through us what we think is impossible can be achieved in all kinds of ways. Some are beautiful, like acts of kindness and compassion; others are practical like leadership and administration; still others are supernatural like healing and prophecy.
BE
With Jesus
BECOME
Like Jesus
DO
As Jesus Did
Your Discipleship Journey
SPIRITUAL FORMATION
What is Spiritual Formation?
Dallas Willard describes spiritual formation like this…
“Spiritual formation in the Christian tradition, is a process of increasingly being possessed and permeated by the character traits of Jesus, as we walk in the easy yoke of discipleship with Jesus our teacher.”
Our formation is how we change to become more like Jesus as we spend time with Jesus. Spiritual Formation needs to be an intentional decision and takes a lifetime of practice and dedication.
COMMUNITY
We as humans naturally belong in community, in relationship with one another. We typically long for community with others. Living in community with each other allows for transformation in two beautiful ways; exposure and encouragement.
Exposure is opening up and allowing others to have a window into our lives, observing what we can’t see in ourselves and challenging us. Having others walk closely with you enables you to strive and improve yourself, this is healthy exposure… and a good community provides not only healthy exposure but also encouragement.
Encouragement starts by knowing what each other are working through, and how we are striving to be better Christ like people. We are there to support each other, we notice when others are trying and love each other when we fall short.
Now this isn’t easy but it’s worth it!
EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE STATEMENT OF FAITH
As members of the Evangelical Alliance as part of the Pioneer family we affirm and uphold this basis of faith as what we believe in.
1. The one true God who lives eternally in three persons – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
2. The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.
3. The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God – fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
4. The dignity of all people, made male and female in God’s image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.
5. The incarnation of God’s eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ – born of the virgin Mary; truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
6. The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.
7. The bodily resurrection of Christ, the first fruits of our resurrection; his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
8. The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
9. The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.
10. The church, the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers — given life by the Spirit and endowed with the Spirit’s gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice and love.
11. The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.
