{"id":594,"date":"2023-02-13T21:14:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstbaycity.org\/?page_id=594"},"modified":"2023-02-13T21:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:15:03","slug":"purpose-and-values","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/firstbaycity.org\/index.php\/purpose-and-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose and Values"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"594\" class=\"elementor elementor-594\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0336156 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0336156\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9faac0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f9faac0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b7e0e7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6b7e0e7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc63066 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cc63066\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Purpose<\/span><\/strong><br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Worship God\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Equip Believers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Build Community\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Share Christ<\/strong><\/span><br \/><br \/><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Values<\/span><\/strong><br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Worship<\/strong><br \/>We value\u00a0<em>Worship<\/em>\u00a0as the supreme God-honoring act of the\u00a0<em>congregation<\/em>\u00a0assembling intentionally, seeking to experience God\u2019s glory through His Word proclaimed and praise lifted to Him. Worship is also the\u00a0<em>individual<\/em>\u00a0daily laying down\u00a0onself as a living sacrifice, becoming\u00a0transformed to the image of Christ.<br \/><br \/><strong>Biblical Authority<\/strong><br \/>We value\u00a0<em>Biblical Authority<\/em>\u00a0as the Bible, recognized as God\u2019s revelation of Himself to the world and as the absolute standard for our personal and congregational lives.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><strong>Prayer<\/strong><br \/>We value\u00a0<em>Prayer<\/em>\u00a0as the personal and corporate discipline of communication with God, acknowledging and depending upon Him as the source of power, direction and effectiveness in all areas of life.<br \/><br \/><strong>Discipleship<\/strong><\/span><br \/>We value\u00a0<em>Discipleship<\/em>\u00a0as obeying God\u2019s command to make disciples by engaging others in relationships that mutually encourage and push one another to grow spiritually by daily dying to our own wills and actively living out the commands of Jesus.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Community<\/strong><br \/>We value\u00a0<em>Community<\/em>\u00a0as the congregation\u2019s intentional, continuing pursuit of strong, caring relationships with each other, resulting in authenticity, openness, encouragement, ministry, and accountability.<br \/><br \/><strong>Evangelism<\/strong><br \/>We value\u00a0<em>Evangelism<\/em>\u00a0as obeying God\u2019s command to take the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ to the lost world, engaging them in relationship, while fulfilling our roles as ministers of reconciliation.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><strong>Missions<\/strong><br \/>We value\u00a0<em>Missions<\/em>\u00a0as cooperating with God where He is at work to reach the lost world with the gospel through ministries of the congregation\u00a0 locally, nationally, and internationally.<br \/><br \/><strong>Stewardship<\/strong><br \/>We value\u00a0<em>Stewardship<\/em>\u00a0as personally and corporately responding in love and obedience to God\u2019s grace through regular, joyful giving of our time, spiritual gifts, and financial resources in ministry to others in the name of Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose Worship God\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Equip Believers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Build Community\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Share Christ Values WorshipWe value\u00a0Worship\u00a0as the supreme God-honoring act of the\u00a0congregation\u00a0assembling intentionally, seeking to experience God\u2019s glory through His Word proclaimed and praise lifted to Him. Worship is also the\u00a0individual\u00a0daily laying down\u00a0onself as a living sacrifice, becoming\u00a0transformed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-594","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstbaycity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstbaycity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstbaycity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstbaycity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstbaycity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/firstbaycity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/firstbaycity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/594\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstbaycity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}