“CORE” PART 2

Core Value #2 = PAGES THE BIBLE - The Bible is the infallible, inspired and authoritative guide for faith and life.   EXCELLENCE - We never stop learning and growing, and are committed to continuous improvement and reaching our full God given potential. RELEVANT - We strive to communicate biblical truth in a way that is simple and easy to understand.

1. THE BIBLE - The Bible is the infallible, inspired and authoritative guide for faith and life.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.   

Infallible = Absolutely trustworthy or sure; immune to errors. A. The Bible is the infallible, inspired and authoritative guide for faith and life. Infallible = Absolutely trustworthy or sure; immune to errors.

Inspired = God “breathed.” B. The Bible is the infallible, inspired and authoritative guide for faith and life. Inspired = God “breathed.”

Authoritative = Having the sanction or weight of authority. C. The Bible is the infallible, inspired and authoritative guide for faith and life. Authoritative = Having the sanction or weight of authority.

EQUIPPING = To furnish or provide with whatever is needed. D. The Bible is the infallible, inspired and authoritative guide for faith and life. EQUIPPING = To furnish or provide with whatever is needed.

2. EXCELLENCE - We never stop learning and growing, and are committed to continuous improvement and reaching our full God given potential.

A. We are REPRESENTATIVES

2 Corinthians 5:20 - Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us.  Colossians 3:23-24 - Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. 2 Timothy 2:15 – Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 1 Corinthians 10:31 –  So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

B. We are moving FORWARD

Matthew 11:12 And from the time John the Baptist began preaching until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing, and violent people are attacking it.

3. RELEVANT - We strive to communicate biblical truth in a way that is simple and easy to understand.

A. CONNECTING

Ephesians 4:15 – … we will speak the truth in love…   

B. COMPELLING

1 Corinthians 9:20-22 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.