LEADERSHIP

We believe God has given leaders to His Church to lead groups of believers (congregations and groups of congregations) to follow them in accomplishing God's mission for the Church, which is to develop disciples of Jesus Christ. Leaders accomplish this by recruiting, training and mobilizing followers to use their gifts to serve the Body in seeing God's mission for His Church accomplished.

MISSIONAL CONGREGATIONS

We value missional congregations. We believe the ultimate reason for local congregations to exist is to fulfill Jesus' mandate for His Church which is to have it grow so "the Gates of Hell" will not prevail. Congregations failing to develop new disciples for Jesus Christ on a regular and consistent basis are not only ineffective in achieving God's purpose for His Church, they are disobedient to God's very purpose for establishing His Church.

BEYOND THE BOX THINKING

Denominational and most congregational structures and behaviors reflect paradigms that are temporal and aged. These paradigms must not only be challenged but discarded. Incremental change is ineffective.

RISK TAKING

We value leaders who take risks. Risk taking means living by faith. Major systemic changes will not occur in congregations, judicatories or associations of congregations without those leading such entities being willing to risk their very positions and reputations in order to see the Great Commission embraced and implemented consistently.

SYSTEMIC CHANGE

Denominations and most congregations are so irrelevant to culture now that incremental change will only slow to a few degrees the eventual and inevitable death of such entities. Therefore, we must embrace systemic change that attacks the essential mission, vision and resulting behaviors of denominations and congregations.

ACCOUNTABILITY

We value leaders who are both willing to be held accountable for their behaviors (including risks) and to hold others accountable. Without accountability, no meaningful changes remain in place.