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A church is a curious thing. It is located on a certain corner in this world, and speaks of the existence of another world, with a message for the people of all the world. It is, at the same time, both the contemporary crossroad of the temporal and the eternal, and the visible intersection of the local and the global. As such, the church is the convergence of three distinct players - God, sinners and saints - operating in three distinct realms - eternity, time and space. The whole thing is simple in that time and space are segments of eternity, and sinners and saints are responsible to God. But the whole thing becomes muddled in that times and places continually change, and saved saints remain struggling sinners. The task: church ministry. The challenge: defining ministry.
Because the church is established for God's glory (Eph. 3:10), it is decidedly doxological. But because it is concerned with the reconciliation of humanity (2 Cor. 5:20), it is simultaneously anthropological. A ministry model must comprehensively reflect a profound awareness of the need to delicately balance both the doxological and anthropological aspects of the church. Here is our ministry philosophy at Valley View.
Mission Statement:
We exist as a church to glorify God by leading people to an individual passion to know God through His Word, and a corporate effort to make Him known in His world.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010