NURTURE ‘the apostle's teaching'

The apostle's teaching (the teaching of the New Testament including the Old Testament) nurtures and matures the Church. The Word of God forms and reforms us into His image by His Spirit, through His people and through the ordinary experiences of life-its human joys and pain. We value the teaching ministry of the Church not only formally through the written and spoken Word of God, as we gather for Sunday worship, but informally as we scatter to our homes and work during the week meeting in smaller face-face groups for discussion and prayer.

COMMUNITY ' the fellowship'

Community is not a human accomplishment, but a gift of the Holy Spirit. God is personal so too should be the communities he creates. So we value authentic community and strive to be more than an audience on Sunday morning, but a community of the people of God sharing our lives together socially and in meeting each other's material needs as they arise. Community is also expressed in our Care Groups, which meet during the week, in which the gifts of God are discovered, where we receive prayer and where we are used for the service of one another and the needs of the world here in Hong Kong and beyond.

WORSHIP ‘the breaking of bread and to prayer'

The worship of the living God is what we're created for. As one historic creed puts it, ‘The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.' So we value creative expressions of music and worship not only on Sunday, in which we also hear the Word of God and participate in the Lord's Supper, but also Monday through Saturday, in which we as the apostle Paul writes, ‘Take your everyday, ordinary life-your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life and place it before God as an offering'.

Romans 12.1 The Message

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MISSION & OUTREACH ‘ the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved'

Hong Kong is both a magnet and a crossroads for the world and we take the strategic nature of this unique city as a gift and a responsibility for the gospel's sake. We have partnerships with like-minded Christians in mainland China and in other parts of Asia and the world who are seeking God's ‘kingdom come' in a variety of ways. Mission is the love of God in all its forms, expressed in both word and deed, proclamation and demonstration. We value evangelism and social involvement, because God loves and saves the whole person. Evangelism has social consequences and social involvement has evangelistic consequences as we express the grace of God in Jesus through what we say and through the actions we take. The early church ‘enjoyed the favor of all the people'. We desire that our mission would enjoy such favor.