No Pope, Priest, or Pastor is going to stand between us and God the Father, because Jesus is the perfect mediator, and the full and complete sacrifice for our sin.

We donʼt expect people to know much about Church. We expect to start from the ground up, and show graciously and tell clearly why itʼs still worth trusting and following Jesus – without assuming that everyone else will think weʼre right.

When we’re in church we act and talk like ordinary people who follow Jesus. In every other part of life we do the same.

Jesus gave us a glimpse of what heaven is going to look like when he healed the sick, raised the dead and wiped away tears. And it looks great. But we know we’re not there yet, so we don’t always expect things to go well here.

We expect change, because we’re always growing as followers of Jesus.

As a church, we love focusing our resources to make a real difference to real needs, with strategic service projects played out around our neighbourhoods, our city and our world.

We’re so pleased to be saved by God’s grace through faith in Jesus that we want people to turn from their own small gods, trust Jesus, and grow as his followers. Our mission is not to be corny, or offensive, or ungracious, or arrogant – but to give Jesus the credit for the good things he’s doing in us and through us.

A key distinctive of church is the way we’ll love one another in very practical ways. A second key distinctive is meant to be the way we’re always open to anyone who wants to join.

Because Jesus says “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from the mouth of God,” we structure our church meetings around hearing from the Bible.