Thursday, January 04, 2007

Priorities for the Church

One of the things that I most enjoyed about our Christmas travels was the time that we were able to spend talking with family over meals. At one of those meals, my dad posed this question to those around the table:

If you were part of a church plant, and responsible for defining the core
values and priorities of that church, what would they be?

What a wonderful question for helping us to think missionally! So, having benefited from the answers of those around the table, I wanted to open up the question to others to glean from your wisdom as well.

Comment away!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

- Glory of God
- God-centeredness (especially Christ-centeredness)
- Discipleship and evangelism (interwoven and not defined as merely education)
- 5 solas
- Prayer
- Community
- Servanthood, humility
- Compassion
- Absolute obedience to Christ
- Missions (though I'd really include this above with discipleship and evangelism)
- Something along the lines of Christ being our treasure, portion, joy, etc. but I see it as being interwoven through many if not all of the above points.