Church Vision Part One
09 Oct 2009
September has whizzed by at break neck pace and we are well into a new teaching series - 'Crossing the Divide' which Chris Taylor kicked off wonderfully for us last Sunday. I just want to reflect briefly on our four week 'Church Vision' series.
It was great to state boldly through four sermons that we are:
1) Word based Church
2) Spirit led Church
3) Community Church
4) Church for the Nations
For those that are new to us at NCC I hope you found these four sermons reaffirming to you that we're a church you can join confidently!
For those who have been around for a while, I hope you were reassured that these values remain vital to us.
It can be all too easy to allow the 'values' of the society and cultures around us to dictate what we should believe and what we should teach. Our conviction is that as soon as we allow our values to be determined by worldly sources our message will be diluted and will lose its potency. We agree with the apostle who was 'not ashamed of the gospel' and we're committed to 'guarding the good deposit entrusted to us', the gospel is our greatest treasure and our greatest weapon, we cannot tinker with it!
We are a people of the Spirit. In Paul's writings Word and Spirit were never opposed to each other but existed hand in hand. At NCC you'll find that we not only preach and believe the Bible, but that we are also very open to the work of the Holy Spirit and His gifts. When we gather together our expectation is that we will encounter God and that people will prophecy, have words of knowledge and that other 'gifts' of the Spirit will be used to edify and encourage each other to the Glory of God.
Cont. Pt Two
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