Every church has a unique identity, a DNA if you will, which is formed by the interaction of theology, philosophy and practice. It starts with theology from a church's understanding of God and His scriptures. This theology affects the philosophy of ministry which each church operates by and within. Finally, this philosophy, affects the practical outworking of a local body. We believe in an incarnational, missional, sacrificial model which seeks depth over width. We pray, and work, that our practice lines up with those beliefs.
We no longer have singles, men's, women's or college ministries. That doesn't mean we don't minister to those demographics only that we don't feel as if we must gear a ministry toward a particular group to reach that group.
This philosophy, along with a driving passion that church consists not of a building and not merely of preaching and singing, but in being the body of Christ in sharing life together, has driven us to funnel all our adult ministry in and through our groups department. Groups serve as a panacea in which men and women, single or married, young and not so young, gather together in recognition of our inability to do life alone. Our hope is to create unity in diversity as people interact with those who are perhaps a little unlike themselves.
Our Philosophy of Ministry
The following is a sermon on our Philosophy of Ministry: Philosophy of Ministry - Josh Patterson
