We believe that to achieve our intended aim of sharing the gospel, discipling the nations and advancing the Kingdom of God into our local, city, national and international sphere of influence as a body of believers, we need to grow in a number areas of our Christian life.

Our vision is Jesus Christ
First, we believe that we need to continue to grow in our love and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is our primary vision and towards whom all our activities, actions and living is focused and directed and through whom they are realized. Our deepest desire is to know Jesus and experience Him in a greater way in our life and in the lives of others. It is from this desire and experience that everything else flows.

Praise, worship and glorification of Jesus Christ
Secondly, we believe that we need to continue to grow in our worship, praise and honour of Jesus Christ. Our worship remains contemporary, free, honouring and with a continual focus upon glorifying God.

Practical love for one another
Thirdly, we believe that we need to grow in a genuine and practical love for one another as a body of believers. We believe that as part of the body of Christ, the Church, we should represent the wisdom and the heart of God not only to one another, but to the world at large according to our increasing level of maturity.

The Word of God as truth
Fourthly, we believe that our actions, attitudes and lifestyle should be based and built upon God’s truth as a value and as an expression of our faith into Jesus Christ. We hold to the view that Scripture is the revealed word of God and is the source and measure of sound teaching and doctrine. Holy Scripture is the infallible word of God and it is truth that redirects our thinking and life towards God and His grace, love and purposes. We believe from this position of grace and love believers are called to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. They are also called in their expression and representation of Christ towards others to reveal the love of God and release the power and values of the Kingdom of God in and through their lives.

Born again believers led by the Holy Spirit
Fifthly, we also believe that believers need to be born again to enter into eternal life. Knowing and believing in God releases believers into a process of transformation. The Holy Spirit within us redirects and changes the pattern of our thinking and our attitudes towards God and one another. We begin to see and understand things from God’s point of view and from what He says to be true, not what men think is true of us and God. Our world view changes and we are transformed internally in our thoughts and decisions by the power of the Holy Spirit. The transformation is part of God’s promise and His grace towards us. We release this internal transformation by learning to live in agreement with the revealed word of God. This we believe is to live in the freedom that Jesus Christ won for us by his death and resurrection. This also leads to a life of redemption, restoration, promise, hope and action.

Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Sixthly, the filling of the Holy Spirit apart from the above regeneration, is known as the Baptism of the Holy Spirit which is an evidence of God’s power and grace, anointing (enabling) the believer to be a witness of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to others. We believe that this witness includes both the proclaiming of the Gospel and the demonstration of the truth of the Gospel by the power of God being released through the believer in different ways including, healing, prophecy, words of knowledge, signs and wonders and so on.

The great commission to disciple the nations
Seventhly, we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ spoke of a great commission to go into the world and make disciples of the people of the world baptising them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe that this great commission has not changed and is relevant to all believers today. To make disciples is a stronger commitment than to simply tell someone about Jesus. To make disciples we believe that genuine relationships between people are established in unity, love and respect for one another and God. From this community of relationships churches are established and built upon sound doctrine and teaching of the word of God and by responding to and releasing the power of the Holy Spirit in our life as individuals and as a community.

We believe there are three parts of our vision that need to be understood to better appreciate our values and why we need the love, faith and power of God operating through both the Word in sound teaching and doctrine and the gifts of the Holy Spirit to reach, redeem, restore, redirect and release those God has called us to connect with and to disciple.

A Hospital
We believe that as a body of believers we are called to heal and restore to Christ those who have been hurt, wounded, misunderstood and rejected to help them understand and live in the amazing future and hope they have in Jesus Christ.

Like all hospitals we aim that wounded believers or hurt people, find healing is a process that leads them into a complete healed recovery. In this process of recovery we believe there will be the discovery of new things and new beginnings in Christ as well as the restoration of things that have been lost, stolen or damaged by the past. Restoration is a key emphasis in enabling believers to become all they are called to be by God both in identity and in purpose.

Wounded and hurt believers and people have been robbed by the past of their identity in Christ, and their potential and their future in Christ. Part of the salvation process beyond justification is restoration and participation in the promises of God. The process of restoration is outworked in and through the body of believers and by the individual taking responsibility within the church community for living in the truth of God’s word by faith enabled by the power of God’s grace and love. The duration of the recovery process is often different as between believers and people generally, but the process and outcome are the same. We are healed and restored through the wisdom, love and power of the Cross and relationships within the body that provide the practical love and encouragement we need.

Restoration shifts our thinking from a self focus to a Christ focus. What we hold before us we become.

A School
All disciples are by definition students of another. We are all students of Christ, no matter what our function in the church. The primary function of teaching and pastoring is to bring believers into maturity in their character, function, calling and gifting and perhaps above those things, into the knowledge and love of God. Good leaders and teachers lead and teach in a manner that recognizes the future of those who follow them and releases them into that future through teaching, relationship, and opportunity. Teaching is not just theoretical. It must be practical, powerful, relational and releasing.

Above all things God wants our heart focused and fixed upon Him. From this position of a surrendered will we co-labor with God growing in the knowledge that our true identity and self-worth is found only in Him and by participating with Him in His plans for our life. To this extent teaching recognizes this fact. But teaching comes from both hearing and experiencing the power of the Word and the Spirit combined together. In turn, this teaching brings us to a deeper knowledge of God and a deeper sense of identity, purpose, direction and release of God’s love and power into our lives and into the lives of others. As we gain an insight into the purposes of God and understand His desire to release us into those things He has planned for us to do and reveal, for His glory not ours, we shift our focus upward, outward and forward. We build our lives towards God, not our self.

We believe that the church is in need of capacity Spirit-filled courageous leaders and believers who will commit themselves to growing in Christ and being committed to growing and outworking the key values of the Kingdom of God both in the market place and within the church.

An Airport
We believe that as we raise up new leaders and recognize and develop the strengths and future of those believers who have grown in Christ, they should be sent out at first in teams, to build up other parts of the body of Christ within the city and the nation. We hold to the view also that leaders need to emerge from within the body to be released into leading other churches and to planting churches. We believe in releasing and sending those who carry a recognized calling and anointing for the task they are to be released into.

Not all leadership and Kingdom activity takes place in the church. Much of what God is doing in this hour requires courageous and anointed leadership in the marketplace to reveal and release the power of the gospel and the power and values of the Kingdom of God. We build to release. We do not build to restrict or restrain those who God is calling into a particular sphere of influence. We believe God has called us to restore, teach and release anointed and faith-filled believers who are keen to impact and make a difference in their sphere of influence whether it be in the church or in the marketplace. This influence can vary considerably. We believe God uses all people who are committed to His plans and purposes for their lives.