OUR AIM

Together living the beautiful way of Jesus for the glory of God and the good of the next generation.

OUR COMMITMENTS

We believe the way of Jesus is the best, most beautiful way to be human. For us in this coming year, we recognize that this way of life consists of loving God, loving one another, and loving the people around us.

LOVING GOD / Because God is worthy and because He loves us, we commit to loving and worshiping Him with our whole lives, and we commit to loving and worshiping Him in a set apart way as we consistently gather together with the Church. As a Church, we gather all together on Sunday mornings to draw near to God and to minister unto Him.

LOVING ONE ANOTHER / Because God loves His people, we commit to being in authentic, joyful, growth-producing relationships with one another and to serving one another in love. As a Church, we have men’s groups, women’s groups, and community groups that are intentionally designed to foster these kinds of relationships. We also have ministry teams through which we serve one another.

LOVING THOSE AROUND US / Because God loves the world, we commit to proclaiming and embodying the Good News of Jesus to the world around us in our everyday lives. As a Church, we love our city by partnering together with the citywide Church of Fort Wayne. And we love the next generation by orienting ourselves toward them and being passionately devoted to their Kingdom formation.

We recognize that throughout this coming year we will be graciously learning together to integrate a shared set of Kingdom practices (often called a Rule of Life) into our lives and our mission as a Church. In all of this, we long to see a movement of God to form a people who are committed to King Jesus, to one another, and to a way of living, thus resulting in transformed lives, a transformed city, and transformed generations.

OUR BELIEFS AND OUR SACRAMENTS

As a Church, we hold to the essentials of the orthodox Christian faith as revealed in the Scriptures and articulated by the Church in the Apostles’ Creed and Nicene Creed. In non-essential but important doctrines, we maintain unity together in Jesus. Together we commit to boldly hold to the essentials, to humbly maintain unity with non-essentials, and to lovingly honor our belief statement.

We learn from the Scriptures and from church history that there are certain rites and rituals God has given us that are designed to be sources of grace, formation, meaning, and life. We honor the perspectives of the various streams of the Jesus movement around the world, and as a Church we observe two sacraments: baptism and the Lord’s supper.