CrossPoint Church
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Our Four-Fold Focus
the 4 Ws...
WORSHIP is the expression of our adoration, love, gratitude and devotion to God. In the context of our worship services we will seek this to be done through the use of music, the creative arts, the teaching of God's Word, and the sharing of personal life stories. We believe our worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for God's love to blossom in our relationships as the visible evidence that we have been authentic in our worship of Him. We desire the love of God to influence and affect the way we live as men, women, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, employers and employees, etc. We believe our worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, our worship times are designed with a great emphasis on the teaching of the Word of God, that we might be strengthened in faith, be reminded of God's amazing grace, and gain practical insights on how we can grow spiritually. We believe our worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct everything we attempt to do as a local expression of the universal body of Christ. We believe our worship of God should be personal. Therefore, we seek to involve each person by giving a place to congregational readings from the scriptures, to public prayer, and to the recitation of songs, creeds and other readings in our worship. We don't believe worship is something we watch; worship is something we are and do. We believe our worship of God should be sacrificial. Therefore, we intend to give of our time, talents, money, and other resources that God may be glorified and others will be helped and come to know His great love.
WORD. The foundation for all that we believe about God, ourselves and the world in which we live is found in the ancient scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Therefore, we give priority to the study of those time tested writings, seeking to arrive at an informed historical interpretation and a relevant contemporary application. We seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit to lead us into the kind of balanced truth that will encourage us to hope and challenge us to grow. As we study the Bible, we seek to know about God, but we also seek to encounter and know God Himself personally through what He has revealed about Himself.
WITNESS. We desire to display through our words and deeds that God is powerfully alive and present, and that He cares for each and every person we encounter. This happens as we take opportunities to share our faith verbally, live it out intentionally, and lovingly respond to the real needs of those within reach of our community. Therefore, depending fully on the Holy Spirit, we intend to develop hearts that are sensitive and aware of what is going on in the lives of those around us. As we talk with people about God's grace, love and hope, we desire to be persuasive without being abrasive.
WITHNESS. This is another way of saying we are a community. All Christians are members of the body of Christ and therefore we are spiritually connected and dependant on each other. Each of us has been gifted by God with spiritual gifts that were designed to be used in the context of community for glorifying God and for building each other up in the faith. Using the metaphor of the human body, some of us serve as hands, some as feet, some as ears or voices, some as shoulders, etc. We do not gather simply for our own benefit and enrichment but we gather with the idea that by God's grace, He is changing our self-centered nature, transforming it into a God-centered and others-centered nature that authentically reflects and represents Jesus Christ.