YOU!! You’re important because God thinks you’re important! Therefore, we accept you for who you are! FULL STOP!! Please note, that God loves us too much to leave us as we are! He desires to release us into our full potential which is awesome!!
COMMUNITY!! Life is about relationships! No one ever said at the end of their life, I wished I worked harder or worked longer hours! Life is far more fun when we share the journey with others! Where we’re free to be ourselves without judgement!
OUR TOWN!! Church is not just about us. It’s about others too!! One of Harvest Community Church’s aims is to be an influence in our town by helping practically as well as spiritually.
DEPLOYMENT!! Our desire is to help you discover, develop and deploy the gifts that God has placed within you. When you discover why you’ve been placed on this earth your life becomes an adventure!!
THE BIBLE!! It is the final authority in our lives and in our church community!
PRAYER!! Connecting with God is what we’re about. There can be no better investment!! Our Core Pillars
This is how we seek to express what we believe.
Belonging! Growing! Serving!
Belonging:
We believe you can best understand this through knowing God! We believe The Church community needs to be a vehicle through which this belonging and relationship grows.
“What marvellous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it—we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are. But that’s also why the world doesn’t recognise us or take us seriously, because it has no idea who He is or what He’s up to. 1 Peter 3:1. (The Message Bible.)
Growing:
By taking personal responsibility to develop our relationship with Christ! By working hard to nurture our relationships with each other!
“So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.” 2 Peter 5:1-9. (The Message Bible.)
Serving:
By being committed to Christ and each other and using our gifts to serve one another – The local Church By being diligent to use our gifts to serve our local and wider community; fulfilling Christ’s commission to reach ALL people with the GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL!
“Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless-cheerfully. Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God’s words; if help, let it be God’s hearty help. That way, God’s bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he’ll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything-encores to the end of time. Oh, yes!” 1 Peter 4:10-11 The Message (MSG)
