Our Vision & Values
Vision (or what we're aiming for...)
RELATIONAL COMMUNITY
- Reflecting the nature of God as Father, Son and Spirit
- Making room for each person’s unique mix of gifting, talent and character
- Valuing a person’s wholeness above function
- Seeing community as vital for demonstrating God and enabling growth
- Welcoming all people as gifts from God
EQUIPPING COMMUNITY
- Desiring to enable and release all God’s people in their gifts
- Understanding that as Christians we are called to be disciples
- Rooting our learning in the Scriptures
- Experiencing our learning by the Spirit
- Becoming a community of learning through the whole of life
PIONEERING COMMUNITY
- Believing in the release of people’s passions as part of extending the Kingdom
- Encouraging faith, risk and an adventurous spirit
- Having a creative flexible approach to church planting
- Affirming the pursuit of justice and change in society as expressions of a radical Gospel
- Not settling for maintaining “what is” but pursuing God for “what will be”
WHOLE LIFE COMMUNITY
- Viewing the Church as affecting the whole of society
- Valuing home, work and leisure as places that matter to God
- Understanding our transformation as taking place in all of life, as well as in Church meetings
- Reawakening the God-creation of the arts, the sciences, business, education, caring professions…
Values (or the things which are important to us in BCCS)
Please take a look at the PDF attachment.
