Spiritual Intimacy

Spiritual intimacy is the reason we exist.  We believe that man was created by God, in the image of God, for a relationship with God.  However, man is sinful and separated from God and desperately in need of restoration.  As broken people who are unable to fix ourselves we need to hear the truth.  Spoken in love, truth causes us to think about our lives in relation to God.  We teach the Bible as the truth, believing that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

These two realities are why we believe that when people hear the truth they are provoked towards a God-centered view of life and lasting change is now a sustainable reality.  We trust the Holy Spirit to draw people to a point of understanding, desire, and experience.  Spiritual intimacy is learning to enjoy the fruit of a priority relationship with God.

Biblical Community

Biblical community means that our desire is not to just preach to people but to do life with them.  We believe in the context of biblical community we are loved, taught, challenged, exhorted, forgiven and nurtured to a place of mature responsibility.

At Grand Parkway, this environment is fostered in our home groups which meet throughout our city.  It is here that people ask questions, doubt, pray think and connect with other people who accept and believe in them.  We believe that dialogue is an essential part of spiritual formation and home groups are an ideal environment for people to listen, speak up, be heard, valued and nourished.

Truth void of community feels overwhelming and impossible.  However, in the context of biblical community we come to see transformation as a journey on which we are not alone.

Consequential Ministry

Consequential ministry is about being a people who make an impact on the world in which we live.  If we only build newer and bigger buildings and never affect our neighborhood what good does that do?  We believe that when God acts, He carves His name in history and such divine activity is always consequential.  We believe that, as Christians, we are created to be part of what God is doing in the world to reconcile the world to Himself.

We have been given a message and ministry of reconciliation and with that comes the luminous responsibility to not only speak the words of Jesus but to model the works of Jesus as well.  Whether in meeting physical needs in Jesus name or speaking out in the name of justice, it should mean something to our city that we are here. We believe that consequential ministry is not the goal but rather the byproduct of our primary goal, the glory of God.  The pursuit produces in us both gravity and gladness and this, we believe, is consequential.