Our Values

The following distinctives define our identity and explains who we are and what we strive to become:

Gospel-Centered Family (1Cor 2:1-4, Phil. 3:7-21)

The Gospel is not only to be understood as the power of God that saves sinners through Jesus Christ's substitutionary death, but also the power of God that sanctifies us and transform us (Romans 12:1-2). The Gospel is our lifeline; our only hope and the only way the Church can functionally live out our calling as a holy, righteous, unified, and loving family. This understanding is critical, so we would not lean on human efforts clothed in merely religious activity, but the supernatural power that changes lives from the inside. The Church, like the Capitol, may have power to create laws, but it has no power to change the heart. Calvary Hill, where Jesus died, is the ultimate power that changes us from the inside out and empowers us to love God and love all peoples That's why we aim to create a culture where the Good News of Jesus is central in our preaching/teaching, our small groups, our fellowship, our outreaches, and whatever we do. We need the power of God. We long for a Gospel saturated culture.  

Scripture-Fed Family (John 14:21; Acts 2:42)

Jesus made our mission clear when he commanded in Matthew 28:18-20 "to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them...teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you." A disciple is a learner and we are all apprentices of Jesus striving to be like him until he returns, whether we are new or older followers of Jesus (Philippians 3:7-16). We are committed to the mission of making disciples in the power of the Holy Spirit combining grace and Truth in the context of a committed community. This is a hill we are constantly climbing. 

Prayer-Led Family (Matt 22:37, Acts 2:42, 6:4)

Prayer is the means to seek God’s face and not merely His hands to grow in our relationship with God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This was modeled by the Lord Jesus when he taught, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, you will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (Matthew 6:9–13). Prayer is about a relationship with God.

Multicultural Family (Eph. 2:11-22; Rev. 7:9)

We desire to magnify the beauty of God by being a multicultural tapestry of races, ethnicities, languages, and cultures woven together by our core identity in Jesus and not in our cultural or individual preferences. We value all cultures, races, and ages, and rejoice in our differences, as God has created us all in His image (Genesis 1:26), desires to bless all peoples of the earth (Genesis 12:2), adopts us (Romans 8:14-17; Galatians 4:4-7; Ephesians 1:5; 2:19-22), commissions us to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19), and maintains our unique ethnic makeup even in heaven (Revelations 7:9-10). We understand that it is human nature to gravitate towards what we are most familiar with and builds walls of security and comfort. But the Lord Jesus Christ broke down ethnic, racial, and cultural dividing barriers to unite all peoples to himself (Ephesians 2:11-22) to display his supernatural power that unites radically different people. So, our hope is for the world to witness the beauty and power of Jesus in our unity in diversity.

Maturing Family (Matt 28:18-20; 2 Tim. 2:1-2)

When Jesus gave us the Great Commission in Matthew 28, he taught his disciples to “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them…teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” There is a progression from baptism and new life to maturity marked by knowing and obeying God and His Word. It is the Spirit’s work in us to mature us, He who began a good work in us will carry it out to completion until the day of Christ (Philippians 1:6).

Multiplying Family (Matt 28:18-19; Acts 6:7)

We believe that the Church is a Holy Spirit empowered movement and not a "ship" chained safely in a harbor. The Church exists to be on Jesus's mission to make disciples to fulfill God's plan "for all the families of the earth to be blessed" (Genesis 12:3) and "for the earth to be filled with the knowledge of glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Habakkuk 2:14). We want what God wants where justice, mercy, goodness, and lovingkindness reign wherever He reigns. Therefore, our goal of making disciples is done best by planting other like minded churches, who will plant churches that plant churches. Our dream is plant churches with the same DNA locally and globally.