Sunday Nights - 6pm
Come Early at 5:30pm for Fellowship
Who are we? We are a simple people. Simply after God’s presence.
Simple is beautiful. Simple is powerful. Simple is magnificent. Simple is Strategic.
The Path
We believe that a life lived well has a repeatable lifelong pattern of 3 steps: Person, Partner, and Persevere. A better word than steps may be focuses. As we focus on a Person - Jesus, he invites us into a partnership with what he is doing. We then with the power of Holy Spirit continue faithfully in focusing on him and our partnership assignment.
Seeking the person of Jesus is primary. We want to hear from and know him.
Everything else is secondary. Everything else comes out of seeking him.
Out of his presence our purpose comes. We seek him first and purpose comes naturally as we walk with him. He is on mission. To love us and to introduce more of the world to him. Out of relationship with him he shares his mission, his heart, with us. He invites us into what he is doing. He gives us the confidence and next steps. From this perspective, we are not doing something for him for identity. We have identity in our relationship with him. We do it because we want to help him get what he is seeking.
Partner - Our Purpose
Our Passion is HIm. We want His PRESENCE! We come together to worship Him. We want to not just worship but to ENCOUNTER Him! We desire intimacy with him. This is our primary focus.
All journeys have a destination. Our’s is Jesus. Our desire is to hang around Him. Our reward is His presence!
We realize God who is everywhere wants to be somewhere. We want that somewhere to be where we are. Everything we do is to create a place where we can encounter God's presence.
A person based church emphasizes experiencing God’s presence as a person during our gatherings. Everything is focused on inviting God to minister directly to our hearts and needs.
Worship is often an extended time that focuses on lyrics about God's presence, glory, and love. There is freedom for congregants to lift hands, close eyes, etc. to connect with God. The worship usually closes with quiet, reflective music as people wait in God's presence and ponder what they experienced with Him.
Spontaneous singing in worship can also happen, along with prophetic words, testimonies of God's work, or other creative expressions from people.
Person - Our Passion
Persevere - Our Power
We all want to ‘finish well’. This means at the end of our lives we have come to intimately know the Trinity. It also means we have finished our assignments on Earth with him. It is possible! Apostle Paul said in 2 Timothy 4:7, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” We need the power of the Holy Spirit to endure, persevere and have life long victory. He gives it to us as we walk in relationship with him.
This pattern of Person, Partner, and Persevere is a life long repeatable pattern. Relationship Church’s core purpose is to help guide us to do this.