Core Values

The Lord’s Supper is celebrated weekly as a full, fellowship meal and as the main reason for the weekly church meeting (Acts 2:42 , 20:7, 1 Cor 11:18 -20, 11:33 ).

Church meetings are interactive per 1 Corinthians 14.  Although one of the men may be slated to teach on a given Sunday, that does not preclude the other brothers from contributing to the meetings via an exhortation, a song, a testimony, a prayer, an illustration, a question, etc.  There is thus freedom and encouragement for more than one brother to share.  Moreover, the ladies may share song requests, prayer requests, praises, and prayers.  However, we ask the men to take the lead and the ladies to remain silent during the teaching time in accordance with 1 Timothy 2:12.

Plurality of elders is the goal for a New Testament home church.  Although there may only be a single elder (the church planting elder) during the formation of the home church.  The goal is to move as quickly as possible to a plurality of elders.

Consensus decisions are made by all the brothers, following Christ as Head of His church. Thus, elder-led more so than elder-ruled churches. Though elders are very important to the functioning of the church, decisions are generally to be made by the church corporately, not by its elders only (Mat 18:15-20, Luke 22:24-27, 1 Pet 51-4).