ABOUT
BRIGHT CITY
MISSION:
To help more people experience life in Jesus
VISION:
To build a healthy community that desires to follow Jesus in every part of their lives—by being with Jesus, becoming like Jesus, and doing what Jesus did.
VALUES
We believe the GOSPEL shapes everything
The gospel is the power and motivation for all that we do. It transforms our lives, brings us together, and defines our mission. We do whatever it takes to remove distractions and make the gospel clear and accessible to others.
We live as a spiritual FAMILY
We were created for relationship and to grow in community. We share life together, live authentically, and allow others to speak into our lives.
We invest in the NEXT GENERATION
We dedicate major resources to raising up the next generation of passionate Jesus-followers. We will partner with parents to see our kids and students become all that God has called them to be.
We RELY on God’s Word and Spirit
God has given us everything we need for life in him— most importantly the Bible and the Holy Spirit. We seek God with all our heart to guide us in all truth and wisdom.
We offer ourselves as sacrificial SERVANTS
Everything belongs to God. We joyfully offer our time, abilities, and resources back to him. We set aside our own self-interests and make necessary sacrifices for the good of others.
We develop ministry PARTNERSHIPS
We know we cannot do everything on our own. We find ways to work together with others in our community and world to make a greater impact, especially where we are not the experts. We don’t have to get credit if more people are helped and loved like Jesus.
We want to better know our STORIES
Story is key to the human experience and how we make sense of life. God takes even the most difficult parts of our stories and redeems them. We find freedom in the new identity he gives us as sons and daughters.
We send every person as a MISSIONARY
Every follower of Jesus is an incarnational missionary. We move with active love toward those in need and far from Jesus. We strive discover our part in God’s mission and live as a faithful presence in our world.
We pursue a LEGACY beyond our lifetime
We want to establish roots in our local community that will last even after we are gone. We are committed to multiplication by sending our best and planting gospel-centered churches.
BELIEFS
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There is one, and only one, true God. He is the Creator and Lord of all, existing eternally in three persons, never less and never more—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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Jesus Christ is fully God, existing eternally. Everything was created by Him and for Him. His incarnation took place in the womb of a virgin. He became man, but never sinned. He died a substitutionary death to atone for sin, resurrected bodily, and ascended into heaven.
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The Holy Spirit is fully God, existing eternally. He is a person, and was involved in Creation and the inspiration of Scripture. His works of convicting and regenerating are essential to the believer’s salvation. Believers are entitled to the benefit and joy of being filled and walking in the Spirit for empowerment in Christian life, service, and mission.
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The sixty-six books, and only these, known as the Old and New Testaments, are the written Word of God. God’s inspiration and superintendence of the writing of every word of the Bible guarantees that what was written is His Word and therefore authoritative, true, and without error in the original manuscripts. God preserves His Word, which is powerful and effective to accomplish His purpose of salvation among all nations. God’s Spirit illumines the minds of believers in every culture to understand and apply the unchanging truth of Scripture in fresh and relevant ways for the benefit of the whole Body of Christ.
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God created man and woman in His image. As a result, all people are bearers of that image. However, Adam’s subsequent sin resulted in a condition of spiritual death which all people since Adam have experienced, marring the beauty of God’s image in them in every facet of life. This condition of spiritual death has rendered all people unable to save themselves, and leads to physical death. Therefore, new birth is necessary for salvation.
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The salvation brought by God is a complete and eternal salvation by His grace alone, received as the free gift of God through personal faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work, as He declares believers righteous in Him.
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There exists one true Church, which is called the Household of God, the Body of Christ, and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. It is comprised of all true disciples of Jesus Christ and is created by the action of the Holy Spirit. Tangible expressions of this true Church are found in local churches.
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The believer is saved by faith alone. The faith that saves is expected to produce obedience and good works, which are the products of the indwelling Holy Spirit. The dimensions of biblical ethics are both individual and social, and extend to every facet of life. God faithfully continues to finish the work of sanctification, which He initiated in the life of each believer with the goal of Christlikeness.
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The dead will have a conscious existence in eternity and their bodies will be resurrected. Unbelievers, already under condemnation, will be sentenced to suffer eternal separation from God. Believers, already having been granted eternal life, will be judged and rewarded according to their works, and will experience a glorified, eternal existence in the presence of the Lord.
These beliefs are a summary of our agreement and alignment with the Charis Commitment to Common Identity. Read More
NETWORK
Bright City Church is a non-denominational and autonomous church purposefully involved in several networks.
