Our Values (Acts 2:42-47)
1. Biblical Proclamation (Acts 2:42)
VALUES RELATING TO DIXIANA’S SPIRITUAL ATMOSPHERE
1. Understanding that the Word of God is inerrant and infallible, we will come under its authority being led by the Spirit of God.
2. Believing that Salvation comes from hearing the Word of God, we will preach it, teach it, and live it.
3. Personal Bible reading, reflection and memorization among all our people.
4. The persuasion that ideas have consequences. Right thinking fosters right living.
5. The indispensable role of teachers and parents to impart biblical truth to the mind, and the indispensable role of the Holy Spirit to awaken love for truth in the heart.
6. Keeping the main things the main things. Maintaining biblical proportion between the importance of a truth and the attention and energy devoted to it.
7. The study of sound biblical theology so that we will not be children in our thinking.
8. Being people who are humble and teachable before the Word of God, always growing and being refined in our grasp of God’s truth and grace.
9. All services, committees, small groups and relationships permeated with the Word of God.
10. Recognizing the inevitability and spiritual value of suffering in this fallen age.
11. Biblical self-denial as we take thought for the good of others.
12. A passion for “all the fullness of God” with his fruit and his gifts in reviving power.
13. Radical obedience to Jesus in personal holiness and purity in public and in secret.
14. The relentless pursuit of hope and joy in God
15. Being a people who are earnest, intense and passionate about the things of God.
16. Personal holiness and godly character of pastor and deacons who equip people for ministry.
19. Efficient administrative structures shaped by the Word and sustained by prayer.
2. Sacrificial Care (Acts 2:42)
VALUES RELATING TO THE RELATIONSHIPS OF OUR LIFE TOGETHER
1. Increasingly visible, authentic, practical ways of loving each other.
2. Eager openness to new people and the avoidance of cliquishness.
3. Building lasting friendships that strengthen our faith.
4. The freedom to relax and enjoy each other and God’s world in casual ways.
5. The importance of small groups for building caring, faith-sustaining relationships.
6. The spiritual shepherding by Pastoral, and deaconal care of all our people.
7. A strong attention to bringing children up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
8. A spiritually dynamic youth ministry that equips teenagers for courageous Christianity.
9. Capturing the hearts and minds of college students with a biblical vision of God.
10. Honoring and caring for the senior members of our church.
11. Being a place where single people can flourish with each other and in families.
12. The beautiful biblical vision of how God designed men and women to complement each other.
13. Building strong marriages that model the relationship between Christ and the Church.
14. Biblical counseling for persons, marriages and families in distress.
15. The commitment of all members to live according to the Church Covenant.
3. Wholehearted Worship (Acts 2:42)
VALUES RELATING TO CORPORATE WORSHIP
1. A public worship form that communicates the supremacy of God in all of life.
2. Fervent, biblical, Spirit-anointed, God-exalting, personally helpful preaching.
3. The importance of old and new, historic and current.
4. The importance of both head and heart in our worship experience.
5. Going hard after God as an all-satisfying end in himself.
6. Authenticity and transparency in communicating in large and small group settings.
7. Vulnerability with our imperfections that encourages openess, not concealment.
8. Being a singing people with growing appreciation for diverse expressions of love for God.
9. A place for spontaneity and lay ministry to the body.
10. Increasing in a humble willingness to support others whose tastes are different than ours.
11. Growing in appreciation of both fine and folk elements in worship.
12. Determination to welcome people different from ourselves for the sake of Christ.
13. Being generous, regular and cheerful in giving to the mission and ministries of the church, encouraging all of us to reach toward the tithe and beyond as God prospers.
4. Desperate Prayer (Acts 2:42)
VALUES RELATING TO DESPARATE PRAYER
1. Growing frequency, freedom, depth and power in corporate, family and private prayer.
2. Making prayer the visible engine of all our efforts in ministry and worship.
3. Being people who are humble and teachable before the Word of God, always growing and being refined in our grasp of God’s truth and grace.
4. Being a people who are earnest, intense and passionate about the things of God.
5. Prayerful, proactive planning for how we see ministries growing and changing.
6. To more fully establish prayer as the foundation for all the ministry we undertake
7. An annual week of prayer emphasis for the church.
8. A regularly scheduled, on-going time of prayer devoted
to praying for revival.
9. Devote time in prayer to consider how we might be more actively involved in efforts at racial and ethnic reconciliation.
5. Exponential Multiplication (Acts 2:47)
VALUES RELATING TO THE LARGER CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT AND WORLD OUTSIDE
1. Sustaining ministries of word and deed to the destitute and helpless.
2. Personal and corporate efforts toward reconciling inter-racial relationships.
3. Continuous evangelism through our natural web of relationships.
4. Empowering lay people to be salt and light at all levels of society.
5. Equipping “incubators” to support the “newborns” that God brings forth.
6. Aggressive participation in completing the global task of reaching un-reached peoples.
7. A sustained priority in prayer, personnel and funding for our adopted people group.
10. Continued growth in the number of people who find joy and strength through membership.
11. Mentoring future vocational ministers and missionaries.
12. Cultivating a ministry mindset of creativity, flexibility, and responsiveness to new needs.
13. Relentless dreaming of ways to penetrate our urban area with the beautiful truth of Christ.
14. Applying field mission strategies to reaching people groups nearby.
15. Wartime mindset relating to the holocaust of perishing people and the use of our resources.
16. Careful, clear, fair biblical thinking about contemporary culture.
17. Bold, balanced, winsome confrontation of our culture’s clearly unbiblical elements.
18. A strong commitment to a diverse and balanced pro-life engagement with our culture.
19. Serving and being enriched by the wider movements of God’s Spirit across church and lines.
21. Sustaining our support, fellowship and influence in the Southern Baptist Convention.
