CPC Vision, Values & Culture

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“I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.” – John 10:10

A place for the lost and a launchpad for believers.

A place for the lost

If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? (Matthew 18:12)

A launchpad for believers

Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. (Ephesians 4:12)

Life Giving

We want to be a breath of fresh air to others, a “yes face” to the world.

The generous will prosper; Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. (Proverbs 11:25)

Authenticity

Jesus loves real people so we don’t have to pretend otherwise.

Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong and hold tightly to what is good. (Romans 12:9)

Multiplication

The true fruit of an apple tree is another apple tree

I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But it’s death will produce many new kernels – a plateful harvest of new lives. (John 12:24)

We are a church that offers life, not the knowledge of good & evil. In other words, we are planting a garden, not building a machine. We know people need good soil to grow, not reprogramming. Our environments seek to refresh and restore what mankind lost in the Fall. We believe that in Jesus, we freely access unimagined healing, power, and fullness of life!

Genesis 2
When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.

Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.

God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made. God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil… God took man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.