About Church Vision

Church Vision Statement:

1)    to foster holy relationship with God as individuals, with each other in the local body, and with  the Body of Christ at large.

2)    to add to the number daily of those who are being saved, so as to see God’s Kingdom come on  Earth, His glory to be revealed, that as many people as possible would be ushered into the  Kingdom.

3)    to be a church for the city, ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit to meet the spiritual and  temporal needs of our community.

About vision:

1)      Vision is not our slogans or what we’ve written down.   Vision is what we see by the Spirit.

2)      The elders and deacons certainly need to be people with   vision. So also the prayer team.

3)      The Church’s purpose is to help bring people to maturity   so they can see for themselves.

4)      The church can then be people of vision.

Paul talks about vision:

Ep. 1:17-20: “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms…”

1)     spiritual sight, not natural.

 2Co. 4:18 “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is  temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

2)     from the empowering of the Holy Spirit.

 1Co. 2:14 “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of  God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually  discerned.”

3)     set on Jesus.

 He. 12:1-2 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw  off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance  the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who  for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of  the throne of God.”

4)       something we must do, because the alternative is being in darkness.

 Ro. 13:11 “And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up  from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is  nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor  of light.”

5)      discerning and therefore bears fruit.

 Ph. 1:9-11 “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and  depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless  until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ — to  the glory and praise of God.”