Denomination: Christian Church
Values that Define Harvest City
Love
The Bible tells us God is love; whoever lives in godly love actually lives in God, and God lives in them. All he requires of you can be summed up in this one word, LOVE — love the Lord your God with all your heart, and love your neighbour as yourself.
God’s love for you is so strong, he even sent his precious son Jesus to earth to make a way for you to live forever, even though he knew Jesus would have to suffer and die to accomplish the task! That kind of unconditional, self-sacrificing love is one thing we treasure and encourage at Harvest City.
Grace
God’s grace is a humbling attitude of undeserved, forgiving kindness and generosity. God’s grace draws us into relationship with Christ, keeps and protects us, and causes us to grow in Christian virtue. Because of God’s grace he sees past our failures and is always ready to accept the broken-hearted. With his grace we, too can overcome arrogance, hard-heartedness and prejudice.
It is in the atmosphere of grace that we find peace, confidence and help in our time of need.
Community
Everybody wants friends! The attitudes we looked at above — love and grace — make for strong, life-giving friendships among those who follow the Lord. And like God, we don’t want just a circle of friends — we want a spiral that always reaches out to include others in the Christian community.
Harvest City Church nurtures community by encouraging each member to be actively involved in church life, particularly in one of the small groups we call “house churches” where each of us can be blessed while learning to be a blessing.
Family
The family is a special example of community, designed by God to be no less than a picture of his relationship with his church. Healthy families are therefore crucial not only to the well-being of our society, but also to the advancement of God’s purposes for humanity.
That is why we are committed to building God-honouring relationships amongst members of families. From premarriage mentoring, to help with child-rearing (Harvest City Christian Academy, for example), to family conflict counseling, and at all points in between we at Harvest City do all we can to strengthen family ties.
Being Real
Vital to all our relationships — with God, our family, our friends, even with ourselves — is an attitude of honesty, sincerity and integrity. Unless we can truly “be real” in our day-to-day living, how can we expect to live by God’s truth? Real life is what happens when we shed the masks we so often hide behind.
Worship and Praise
Being real also recognizes the reality and importance of our invisible, spiritual dimension. God created us with a spirit because he himself is a spirit being; to express our love, adoration and gratitude to him we must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Worship “in truth” is worship that lines up with God’s “Word of Truth”, the Bible. Many ways of expressing true worship are described in the Bible, all of which are as good for our day as they were in Bible times. As we take God at his Word, praise and worship becomes intimate communion with him, a wonderfully varied experience involving our total being — body, spirit, mind, will and emotions.
Love
The Bible tells us God is love; whoever lives in godly love actually lives in God, and God lives in them. All he requires of you can be summed up in this one word, LOVE — love the Lord your God with all your heart, and love your neighbour as yourself.
God’s love for you is so strong, he even sent his precious son Jesus to earth to make a way for you to live forever, even though he knew Jesus would have to suffer and die to accomplish the task! That kind of unconditional, self-sacrificing love is one thing we treasure and encourage at Harvest City.
Grace
God’s grace is a humbling attitude of undeserved, forgiving kindness and generosity. God’s grace draws us into relationship with Christ, keeps and protects us, and causes us to grow in Christian virtue. Because of God’s grace he sees past our failures and is always ready to accept the broken-hearted. With his grace we, too can overcome arrogance, hard-heartedness and prejudice.
It is in the atmosphere of grace that we find peace, confidence and help in our time of need.
Community
Everybody wants friends! The attitudes we looked at above — love and grace — make for strong, life-giving friendships among those who follow the Lord. And like God, we don’t want just a circle of friends — we want a spiral that always reaches out to include others in the Christian community.
Harvest City Church nurtures community by encouraging each member to be actively involved in church life, particularly in one of the small groups we call “house churches” where each of us can be blessed while learning to be a blessing.
Family
The family is a special example of community, designed by God to be no less than a picture of his relationship with his church. Healthy families are therefore crucial not only to the well-being of our society, but also to the advancement of God’s purposes for humanity.
That is why we are committed to building God-honouring relationships amongst members of families. From premarriage mentoring, to help with child-rearing (Harvest City Christian Academy, for example), to family conflict counseling, and at all points in between we at Harvest City do all we can to strengthen family ties.
Being Real
Vital to all our relationships — with God, our family, our friends, even with ourselves — is an attitude of honesty, sincerity and integrity. Unless we can truly “be real” in our day-to-day living, how can we expect to live by God’s truth? Real life is what happens when we shed the masks we so often hide behind.
Worship and Praise
Being real also recognizes the reality and importance of our invisible, spiritual dimension. God created us with a spirit because he himself is a spirit being; to express our love, adoration and gratitude to him we must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Worship “in truth” is worship that lines up with God’s “Word of Truth”, the Bible. Many ways of expressing true worship are described in the Bible, all of which are as good for our day as they were in Bible times. As we take God at his Word, praise and worship becomes intimate communion with him, a wonderfully varied experience involving our total being — body, spirit, mind, will and emotions.
