why do we exist? to encourage one another daily to follow in the way of Jesus.

what is our unique call as a church? We believe that, God has called Kairos to gather together, be formed as disciples, share how Jesus is working in our lives, and be sent out to join God’s story.

4 KNOWING BEING DOING To approach this call, we are a community committed to:

5 Knowing the way of Jesus Through teaching and study, we engage the Lord’s ways that are testified to in scripture. We claim God’s story as our own and ask how we can continue to live in this way as we meet the demands of life. KNOWING

6 Living in real community We wrestle in community with vulnerability and honesty, believing that God works through his people to restore one another from broken sinner into mature disciple. We seek reconciliation in geographic, political, theological, economic, and cultural diversity because it deepens our need for Jesus and broadens our understanding of the Kingdom. BEING

7 DOING Joining God’s work in the world We declare Christ will have the final word on this earth. We know the end of the story so we confidently join in God’s continuing work of restoration in our families, our work, our city, and the world. We believe that practicing the way of Jesus is a purpose not just a preference. We invite others to join us, knowing that one day God’s kingdom will be here in full.

8 why does this matter? For some mysterious, grace-filled reason, we have been allowed to see and experience a new reality that comes through Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. God has called us to live lives together as witnesses to this reality in every aspect of our life, and in doing so, we believe we become a community where the Spirit speaks and acts through us, the Church. The work of the Spirit in us proclaims to the world what is to come.

9 what are the spiritual disciplines we are committed to? In Acts 2, we see that in order to grow in our relationship with Christ, with one another, and with Christ’s work in the world we must devote ourselves to: study of scripture intimate fellowship with one another a life of prayer extravagant generosity

10 As encouragers in the way of Jesus, how do we live out our call? We recognize that we are called today by encountering the risen Lord in community, and then in every aspect of life, in small and large way, seeking to love as Jesus loves us.

11 what do we believe will be the fruit of these efforts?

12 people will come to claim the new reality of in their lives and the world Jesus Christ’s Resurrection

13 people will be and those stories will be told healed

14 people’s lives will raise questions from others that can only be answered by sharing the gospel. something we will do with joy

15 others will recognize our community as hopeful

16 people will find their lives intersecting with the poor, marginalized, and the oppressed

17 people will live lives as followers of Jesus that make Sunday worship something that is needed and looked forward to

18 leadership is spending more time discerning and praying where our community wants to be generous than we are how we are going to make budget

19 people can name who is pouring into them and who they are pouring into

20 people are for those in the community, and we are listening and engaging God’s story faithfully enough to share when those prayers are answered. praying daily

21 our community is helping to disciple our children

22 our children are the of the church. visionaries

23 people are engaging the with the love of Jesus culture and arts of Atlanta

24 people feel a vocational call as followers of Jesus

25 people routinely find themselves around people who claim Jesus as Lord but challenge them to see and experience Jesus in new and different ways

26 as people live out their call to follow Jesus, they have a sense of partnership and togetherness in their specific context (neighborhood, school, work, stage of life)

27 our lives reflect that Jesus Christ will defeat the systematic injustices of our world

28 Sunday worship continually invites, even demands our community to places of vulnerability and togetherness so that we might fully enter into thanksgiving, confession, repentance, and the grace-filled movement of the Spirit.

29 as a community, we are defined and known for and not what are against. what we are for