VISION

Our vision is that the effort to reach a generation for Jesus Christ is bigger than any one generation.  What we do today has implications for how future generations will be reached.  The history of the church reveals how certain generational waves change the church in some fashion, often bringing renewal.  We envision that reaching the youth generation will bring renewal in the following ways. Firstly, there will be a renewal of community, a rediscovery of the relational dimension of the gospel.  Today’s youth can help us all move away from an overly privatized faith into a more communally centered soteriology. Secondly, efforts to reach the youth generation have the potential to push the church to remarry spiritual concerns and social action. Thirdly, the church must be marked by cultural engagement.  The church cannot be afraid of or ignore culture.  It must engage it.  One of the principle places the church can do this is in reaching youth. The church needs to operate from an ecclesiology that is truly Biblically based, rather than one tied to any one particular traditional cultural form.  The church is called to a new way of functioning, to live out the “plausibility structure” of the gospel in order to provide a credible witness to the culture.  It must no longer abdicate its role in the public debate of ideas.  In order for the church to bring glory to God, there must be quality worship, fellowship and witness.