At the heart of our church life is a desire to create a Discipleship Culture, this culture helps provide the environment for us to raise up and release missional disciples.
These 2 main themes that run right through the scriptures, these are Covenant and Kingdom, these provide the framework for this culture.
Covenant is the theme in scripture that expresses God’s desire to call us into deep and loving relationship with Him and to partner with Him in transforming our society as we ourselves are transformed.
Kingdom is the rule and reign of God in His people, and increasingly in this world. We partner with Him to further His Kingdom in words, works and wonders as we overflow His great “power that is at work within us” (Eph 3:20) into the world around.
For the past few years we have been exploring what it would look like for HBC to be a church that has as its heart the command of Jesus to make disciples who make disciples….
This focus on discipleship – helping people to love, trust and follow Jesus – has taken us on an exciting adventure of re-examining what we are exactly about as a church. Being a disciple of Jesus is the most rewarding, exhilarating and joyful adventure in the world and our hope is that as we develop our language and vehicles as churches it will help us draw close to God in a deeper and fuller way.
Our hope is that all we provide in terms of equipping and empowering will excite and encourage us to make more radical disciples of Jesus; those who know that they are called and equipped to change many lives. God is raising up whole communities that carry the DNA of His Kingdom in a way that transforms culture wherever they go. Making disciples is where the action is!
Lets go for it!
Our desire is to help people to love, trust and follow Jesus. It’s about creating space to be with Jesus, become like Jesus and do what Jesus did and helping others in their own journey of discovering Jesus and becoming more like him.
We are a Jesus-centred, Spirit-filled Church and are joined by Overflow Church. We are welcoming and friendly and we love meeting new people.
Here are a number of documents to help you understand more about the journey we are on:
Understanding the Language of Discipleship
Missional Communities – Information
Launching Missional Communities
Here are are a couple of videos too…
Learning Circle from Flood church https://vimeo.com/101761387
Up, In and Out From Summit church https://vimeo.com/89335024