VALUES & CHURCH DISTINCTIVES
Full of self-giving LOVE
Through hospitality & service to others | We will welcome the stranger and show up in community with humble others oriented service.
Seeking Justice & Generosity | We will seek justice for the oppressed and liberation for captives. We will be generous people who use our resources to make our families, community and world a better place.
Deeply Rooted with GOD
Through Prayer | Jesus’ house is meant to be a house of prayer for all people. We will work hard with God and pray through circumstances so we can see God at work.
Learning & Formation | We are all being formed. What are we being formed by and into? We will learn the way of Jesus and allow his life and teachings to form who we are becoming.
Sent as people of HOPE
On Mission | Our God is a missionary God. The sent one, that sends us to the one. We will be a people sent with good news and hope.
Creativity | We will live with an integrated faith that brings beauty, solution, problem solving and holistic shalom into every sphere of everyday life.
Church Distinctives
These distinctions are shared with Searock Sessions, a society for pastors and leaders seeking renewal in the Church.
Courageous Fidelity to Orthodoxy
We hold to the historic faith with joy, boldness and confidence in a time of widespread theological and ethical compromise. Particularly in the areas of scripture, sex, and money. We are committed to the Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus.
Charismatic
Moving in the power of the Spirit. We embrace the gifts and ministry of the Spirit to equip the church for fruitful missional engagement. We seek to be a people of God’s manifest presence, so that many may say: “Surely God is among them.”
Contemplative
Practicing counter formation. We practice a slow-down spirituality in a hyper-connected, over-busy, & exhausted world. Recovering ancient spiritual practices: Sabbath, Contemplative Prayer & living by a “rule of life”.
Contextual
Thoughtful engagement with secular culture. We preach the Gospel in a way that deconstructs cultural idols and proclaims the Gospel as the fulfillment of all personal and existential longings in our cultural moment. We seek creative mission and ecclesiology that fit the context and reach the lost.
Contending
Seeking spiritual awakening. We pray fervently for an outpouring of the Spirit, that brings revival to the church, and a spiritual renewal amidst all of life, throughout the city of Portland.
Compassionate
We will serve the physically, spiritually, emotionally and relationally poor in a way that embodies the way of Jesus and seeks to find God in the face of those on the outside.
Communal
Category defying relationships. We will cultivate deep, loyal, and united friendships across the boundaries of race, class, politics, and sex, in a world that seeks to polarize and divide.