Vision and Ethos
“…eager to write to you about the salvation we share…compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.”
Jude 1:3 NIV
Guided by the insights of the Traditional Historical view of the bible (e.g. Early Church Fathers, the reformation teachers, John Piper, D.A. Carson and Dallas Willard) we uphold the authority of Scripture and the necessity of a robust, biblically grounded theology that resists cultural compromise (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
Following the vision of the New testament models established by the Apostles, we seek the transformation of hearts and minds, emphasizing discipleship, spiritual formation, and the pursuit of Christlikeness (Romans 12:2).
““Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
As we apply the teaching of Jesus we recognize that the Church must engage the modern world with both truth and grace (John 1:14).
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
We must confront secular ideologies with a biblical worldview, yet do so in a way that is intellectually compelling, emotionally resonant, and culturally aware as Paul confronted the People of Athens (Acts 17:22-31).
“Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.””
The late Timothy Keller reminds us that the gospel is neither legalism nor relativism—it is the transforming power of grace (Ephesians 2:8-9) that changes individuals and communities from the inside out.
We recognize that today’s Church faces:
• Cultural relativism that undermines biblical truth (John 17:17).
• Theological drift that compromises sound doctrine (Galatians 1:6-9).
• Spiritual complacency that weakens Christian witness (Revelation 3:15-16). Pm
• A growing secularism that challenges the credibility of Christianity (Colossians 2:8).
Therefore, we strive to cultivate a community of discernment, where believers grow in knowledge (Hosea 4:6), deepen their relationship with Christ (Philippians 3:10), and boldly engage the world with grace and truth (1 Peter 3:15).
By God’s grace, we will stand firm, unshaken in our commitment to biblical fidelity and spiritual vitality, that the Church may shine as a light in the darkness (Matthew 5:14-16).
“I want God, not my idea of God. I want my neighbor, not my idea of my neighbor. I want myself, not my idea of myself.”
Letters to Malcolm, CS Lewis