add your site  

if it is not relevant, it is not God

We need to stand firm on the fact that God is always relevant - though what we do as a people of God has not always been.  I believe that authenticity and excellence honor God, inspire people, and require evaluation and accountability.  It is in this evaluation and accountability where we find the center of being a relevant community of faith.  We need to be committed to doing our part, and know God will do His, in all we do in our individual ministries and in our relationships with others.

I believe it is necessary for us to communicate and teach the timeless and relevant truth of the wisdom of God and the life of Christ in a contemporary, creative, culturally relevant means attractive to a postmodern generation of not-yet-believers with the highest degree of quality we are able to achieve.

However, in our search to be relevant and develop the highest quality we can achieve we do not expect some sort of neurotic perfectionism.  We all need to simply pursue authenticity, excellence and relevance with a passion and within healthy reason.  We are committed to removing every barrier we can between people and a relationship with God.  Moreover, while searching for relevance we will not disregard tough teachings from Scripture as being "irrelevant" simply because they are hard to deal with or stand against cultural teachings.  We accept the challenge of the Scripture, and the teachings of Christ concerning moral and controversial issues.  Our desire is to be Biblically correct, not politically correct.

(John 1:1-14, Mark 7:6-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; 9:16-22, Colossians 3:17, Titus 1:9, Malachi 1:6-14)

john o'keefe