1. “it’s in our DNA” Belonging Through Spiritual Relationships Core Values

2. “it’s in our DNA”

3. Lifestreams is committed to connecting people in accountable and authentic relationships where people are engaging in the Word and prayer and are open to embracing others to join them. Belonging Through Spiritual Relationships

4. “it’s in our DNA” The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind— Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, So they might be one heart and mind with us. Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me. The same glory you gave me, I gave them, So they’ll be as unified and together as we are— I in them and you in me. John 17:21-22

5. “it’s in our DNA” What it Looks Like… Connected to Christ Individual & Church-wide All of Life See Others Through God’s Eyes

6. “it’s in our DNA” PRAYER & REFLECTION

7. “it’s in our DNA” Exodus 25:8 “That I may dwell among them”

8. “it’s in our DNA” John 1 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

9. “it’s in our DNA” Ephesians 1 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love 5 He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that He lavished on us.

10. “it’s in our DNA” My Story

11. “it’s in our DNA” Romans 1 11 I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— 12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.

12. “it’s in our DNA” At the centre of all truly Christian spiritual relationships will be the cross; the more one suffers in unconditional sacrificial love for another person the more truly spiritual the relationship will be.