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Our Core Values

It’s not hard to make the decisions once you know what your values are.

Our values are based upon deep beliefs about the Scripture. Not single verses but a synthesis of all the Scripture says.

Values are one of the greatest influences in culture.
Values tell us what our church considers important above everything else.
Values are the internal rules of the game.
Values are the driver behind behaviors and programs.

You may act contrary to your beliefs but you will not often act contrary to your values. Where beliefs are intellectual, values you hold in your soul. It is what you feel in your heart. These are our core values

We believe knowing God personally, intimately, experiential is most essential to life and leads to personal transformation. (Jn 14:6, Acts 4:12)

We believe that calls us to dynamic, interactive relationship with Christ.
We believe that Christ is our very real, very relevant example of life in God. We only experience the fullness of the Life Christ gives as we learn to follow Him.
We believe the Scripture is given by God and is instruction for living.

We believe Christ came to call followers into a dynamic, life-long relationship. Salvation is not just securing your fire insurance.Jesus did not just die to save me from sin but he has called me to live this new life he came to give. (Matt 4:17-19)

I learn to live this life as a student-learner-practitioner by following Him daily and living in relationship with other believers.
The Disciple systematically and progressively rearranges their affairs to become Christ-like in their Faith and practice. In contrast, the non-Disciple prioritizes something “more important” over becoming like Jesus Christ.
Our objective as a church is to equip people to obey everything Jesus commanded.

We believe that God has a plan for each individual life and he leads and guides into that plan. (Jer. 29:11)

Our desire is to affirm the value of every human life
To help every person discover their unique calling within the plan of God
To help believers discover how they are uniquely skilled, gifted and called to serve God.

Developing Friendships through Fellowship

The Greek word for fellowship, as used in Acts 2:42, is koinonia, which implies intimate communion and selfless sharing. Unfortunately, the church today is actually a very lonely place.
This is not a verb it is a noun. It is not first what we do but what we are. He says you are a Koinonia now gather like one, now act like one.
Many people have experienced a total relationship shutdown. Some have walked through painful church splits, others have been betrayed by friends they trusted, and still others have closed their hearts entirely to avoid being hurt. As a result, koinonia becomes a fancy theological word for something they will never experience.
Look I get it, the church is often filled with lots of hurt and hurting people, and even those who hurt. But we cannot give up on what is meant to be one of the great strengths of Christ’s Church. It is a place we find kindred spirits, a place we find friendship.
This Koinonia is crucial to the Church being what God intended it to be.
Without it we will not grow into spiritual maturity as individuals much less a community. (Eph. 4:11-16)

We value one another and believe in the importance of Creating Community (Heb. 10:25)

At Generation Church we believe everyone needs community; therefore, every believer needs to find a church they can call home.
This should be a place where we’re loved just as we are but encouraged to become all that we can be.
In this church home we discover the community that helps connect us to God and other people through bonds of friendship and love.
Too often churches become just vendors of religious services for do-it-yourself Christians. They may offer a vast array of programs and activities, but they lack the one thing that can truly transform the people who walk through their doors—genuine Christian community.
Ultimately, we do not believe it is possible to set out to find community. That would imply that somewhere “out there” exists this perfect Christian utopia if we can just find it. This leaves us moving from church to church in search of the “perfect church”.

We don’t believe that it’s possible to find the “perfect church” but instead we are striving together to build a church made up of imperfect people committed to one another in Christian love and fellowship.
At Generation Church we are committed to building just such a community and we invite you to make GC your home.

This is not just assembled but gathered under Christ. Do not betray one’s attachment to Jesus Christ and other believers, not avoiding one’s own personal responsibility as part of the body of Christ. —Zodhiates

We believe the Church should be the place where everyone is welcome. (Eph 2:8, Matt. 12:20)

We believe people need space and time to experience Christian growth by Grace.
This transformation occurs incrementally in peoples lives. and replace it with a better one.
We grow in community, we do not grow in isolation. Community provides the instruction and the accountability necessary to produce growth in our lives.

Our desire is to be a Life-giving church (Where we get Life and Give Life)

We want to be a church that gives life. We give life first and foremost the life that is found in Christ. Eternal life is found nowhere else.
Life entered into when we choose to pattern our life’s after Christ and His Word as His disciples in every area of our lives. Man knows how to die, we must be willing to learn how to live. The scripture is the only reliable guide given to man as instructions for living.
Life entered into as we experience the ministry of the Holy Spirit manifesting ministering to us and through us. Inwardly and outwardly.
Life giving churches are filled with people who give life. Are you life giving? Are your words uplifting or are you a constant source of strife, division and human struggle. We are learning to be life-giving.
Our focus is on what we stand for not what we are against.

We are a church with a mission.

What is the Mission of the Church? Think just for a moment about this question. It assumes first the Church and then asks what should its mission be? As if the Church exists and we now must define its purpose. The problem begins with the question.
It is not so much that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission — the mission of God.
Our objective is to see every disciple discover God’s mission as it relates to them individually, to be equipped to carry out that divine purpose as we are together shaped into a people we call the Church.