With the following values, we are striving to be a robust community in Jersey, for Jersey.

A Scriptural Faith

Because we believe the Bible is absolute truth, our aim is to be absolutely saturated with it. We come to the Bible with the hope and expectation that what it says will increasingly become what we say, think, and do instinctively. We’re allowing every bit of Scripture to shape every bit of our lives. In other words, all of Christ for all of life.

Rich Worship

All of life is downstream of worship. It is culture’s fountainhead. Worship must therefore be ordered by God’s infallible, life-giving Word in order to produce a blessed life and a godly culture. For this reason, our worship takes the shape of a covenant renewal service and is characterized by the holiness and joy that is fit for a feast at the King’s Table. Rich psalmody and hymnody are part and parcel of this glorious worship. In covenant renewal worship, we robustly worship the fearful and wonderful God who calls us, cleanses us, consecrates us, communes with us, and commissions us.

Keeping Our Kids

The gospel should not only spread miles wide in one generation, but also miles deep in the generations to come. This requires keeping our kids, which means enculturating them in the life of the church. It means rejoicing with them around the Table. It means providing for them a distinctly Christian education. It means training them in every area of life for their good. It means loving them in and through Christ always. At the end of the day, it means we will parent by faith for faithful generations.

Ordinary Hospitality

We are not a non-profit with programs. We are a microcosm of the new humanity in Christ. We are a community of households. Living out this identity can’t be done by filling our calendars with sterile, albeit positive, programs. It must be done by filling our homes with other households around home-cooked meals. Ordinary hospitality isn’t a strategy for effective church ministry, though it will be that; it is the way to live as neighbors in the borough we’re building for Christendom. Because of this we will prefer homes and friendships over programs every time.

Ambitious Optimism

The Father has given the Lord Jesus all authority in heaven and on earth, which means he now has every right and power to make heaven and earth his own. We believe history is the working out of just that. History isn’t the story of man’s depravity worsening and worsening until Christ rescues him last minute before ultimate catastrophe. History is rather the glorious outworking of Christ uniting all things in heaven and on earth in himself for a most jubilant crescendo. History will not end with a war, but with a banquet. The Bride won’t arrive battered and blemished for that final day, but will come having been gloriously renewed by the careful and patient work of her Bridegroom. And so, since history is characterized by Christ’s hopeful providence, we believe his Bride, the Church, should be characterized by a zealous, ambitious hope in the present. Our Lord will receive his inheritance.

Christian Boroughs

In the beginning, man’s duty was to mature the world for the glory of God. He was to build a culture that would radiate God’s beauty and mirror his creativity. In Christ and by the Spirit, we believe man has been redeemed to carry out his original calling. He’s been redeemed to renew what the Fall has disfigured. Therefore, our aim is to see Christians built up to be leaders in the arts, in business, in education, in politics, in literature, etc., toward the end of cultivating a distinctly and robustly Christian culture. We’re pursuing a faith that builds culture. We’re pursuing a faith that builds boroughs.