Our vision is to see God display His power by saving sinners and sanctifying saints through the faithful preaching of the gospel by all of the members to His eternal glory.
Put briefly, our passion is to: experience redemption and proclaim Jesus
We envision a church that is convinced that God has revealed Himself to us in the Bible. That cherishes His word and celebrates that God has spoken to us and has not left us alone to grope for the meaning of life.
We envision a church that sees Christ as the whole point of Scripture and eagerly desires to know Him from Genesis to Revelation.
We envision a church that isn’t ashamed of the gospel and recognizes it’s the only means of obtaining salvation and therefore, faithfully and relevantly proclaims Christ and Him crucified from all of Scripture, in all contexts, to all people, pleading in prayer that God would bless gospel preaching.
We envision a church that is clear about what the gospel is and how the gospel changes a person. A church that displays the freeing power of the Spirit in lives characteristically marked by love, joy, and self- control. We want to do everything we can to help everyone know God truly and experience salvation fully.
We envision a church that is for Manchester and the Greater Hartford area by seeing it impacted with the gospel of Jesus Christ as sinners are transformed from rebels into worshippers, who offer themselves as living sacrifices to God because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus as Lord.
We envision a church that loves much because they’ve been forgiven much. A church characterized by genuine and committed community that sacrificially loves one another, put others first, and humbly reconcile the conflicts that are sure to happen in the church family, knowing that there is nothing more pleasing to God nor more compelling to the world that we desire to reach with the gospel.
We envision a church that has shepherds and pastors who are pacesetters. Men who are godly, humble, missional, and lead in gospel faithfulness and fruitfulness, whom the members of the church look up to, gladly submit to, and faithfully support.
We envision a church that breaks the mold of being inward-focused and is outward oriented by making the mission of the church the calling of their lives. A church characterized by eagerness; an eagerness to share the gospel in the Greater Hartford area, an eagerness to invite guests to gospel-focused events, and an eagerness to partner with other churches that are gospel-minded as well.
We envision a church planting church that’s most excited about others knowing and loving Christ by strategically planting churches, sending out our best servants, and sacrificially supporting these new churches.