We don't believe that church should be complicated. We exist for the glory and renown of Jesus! And since our mission is simple, so is our vision.
The way we believe we will accomplish our mission is by:
Being a Community Transformed by the Gospel (Romans 12:1-2)
Everything hinges on this first point. If we are not truly transformed from the inside out, then we are just putting on a front and playing the game of church with the rules of religion. So what does this look like? The work of the Holy Spirit has definite effects on the lives of believers that moves us from living for anything else in this world to being devoted fully to Christ. |
Being Physically & Visibly Planted in our Community (James 1:26-2:4)
This is a natural outflowing of the transformed life. We don't want to be known as a church simply because of our building or our name. We want to be known as the church because people can see it in what we do. We want people to hear our good Gospel, see our good works, and know our good love. And all of this as a reflection of what Christ has exhibited in our lives. |
Multiplying Ourselves (Matthew 9:35-38, Acts 1:8, 2 Timothy 1:6-10)
This is what we do and we will see this accomplished in 2 ways. First we will multiply ourselves in our community. We love, serve, and meet real-life needs while earning the right to speak to the eternal needs of people. We will see people graciously saved by the Lord when we intentionally share the gospel everywhere we go. Second, we will multiply ourselves through faithful discipleship. |
Leaving a legacy to be built upon
Our desire is not for our own fame or our own comfort. We will be a community of believers that gladly exhausts our life for the sake of the gospel. We are in a unique season in the life of Lighthouse and we trust God has led us to this point. As a result, our hope is to enable generations that follow to have a pattern of faith to build upon and to entrust whatever work we get to partake in to those who come after us until we are all called up into the glorious eternity that awaits us with God, our Father and King. |