Saturday, August 21, 2010

VALUES

Over this past week I have communicated to you our KFA mission statement and our KFA purposes (see August 17 and August 19 blogs).


‘Mission’ describes the bottom line for a church - what is the one main thing we are here to do?


‘Purposes’ describe the ‘what’ of a church - what are the specific things we should involve ourselves in?


While most churches will have the same general ‘mission’ and same general ‘purposes,’ because those things are already given to us in Scripture, our church ‘values’ may be quite different from the church down the way.


Church values are unique to each local congregation.

Church values are not doctrine - we already have that.

Church values are not theology - we already have that.

Church values are not purposes or mission - we already have those.


Church values are HOW we do church - the attitudes that make up a church - the heart behind what we do - the motivations. These are the things, if we stopped someone on the street and asked them, ‘WHAT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT CHURCH OUT NEAR THE INTERSTATE?‘ This how we’d hope they would respond.


A few months back, we had a great time meeting with about 100 of our leaders. We posed the question to them: ‘WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE THE VALUES OF KFA SHOULD BE?’ Not, ‘WHAT ARE THEY RIGHT NOW?’ but ‘WHAT SHOULD THEY BE?’


That conversation and others like it helped us formulate what our church values should be - the heart and the how of KFA.


So here they are - our KFA VALUES:

Christ-Centered

Outward-Focused

Grace-Filled

Relational

Relevant

Compassionate

Creative

Integrity

Feel free to commit these to memory with us.


And be blessed.

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