If you’re just looking for the bullet points, here you go:
Overview: We, being impassioned by the revolutionary, life-changing call of Christ, will reach out to the culture in our midst. We will walk beside people on their journey, reflecting the unchanging love of God onto them through relevant teaching, authentic community, and passionate worship, in order that their lives will be changed and then in turn, will help change others lives.
Mission: To be and make disciples of Jesus Christ in authentic community for the good of the world.
Core Values:
Relevancy - Deciphering the cultural philosophy, theology and values to effectively make disciples of emerging generations.
Authenticity – Modeling Biblical discipleship through entering community by creating an atmosphere of love and acceptance.
Passion – Expressing our love for Christ as we worship and creatively serve using our God given gifts.
Community – Providing opportunities to find one-another no matter where we find ourselves in our spiritual story so that we can be loved and can love others.
Creativity – Openly using innovative methods that provide a multi-sensory experience to meet God and serve others.
Participation – Encouraging multi-faceted exploration of faith.
Multiplication – Training and equipping emerging leaders to be on mission for God through church planting. Our desire is to be a church planting church.
Core Convictions: • The Bible is God’s authoritative word to us. • Jesus is the only hope for a lost and broken world. • The local church is God’s agent for redemptive change. • Every Christian is called and gifted by God to serve the Body and seek the Lost. • The Church is called to whole earth evangelism.
What is your Doctrine?
The absolute best way to understand and learn about any community is to experience it on the relational level. Statements of faith can tell you what a community of faith’s beliefs are, but they can’t tell you who they are. If you’d like to discover who we are at The Second Story, please come to one of our Gatherings on Sundays. If the actual “statements of faith” are what you are still interested in, please reference the Baptist Faith and Message by going to this website: http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp