Who Are We?
Heart City Church exists to equip people to live like Jesus.
Why?
So that when the world meets us, they find Him.
How?
We learn to adopt what Jesus values as we gather, connect & grow.
Kingdom Values
Value His Presence
His presence is Himself. We want to be people of His presence and host Him well. Which means we grow in surrender, partnership & friendship with God. Our success is found in our ministry to His heart and hosting Him in our midst. We love spending time with our Father!
God is Good
He is better than we think. He has good plans for you, to prosper you and not to harm you. He is a good father and all good things come from Him. As a community we focus on what He is doing and build around that.
Walk in the Power of His Spirit
Jesus taught us to pray “His kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven”. All believers have the opportunity to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring His kingdom into every area of life. The same Holy Spirit is available to every believer regardless of age, race or gender. We all get to be involved in bringing His kingdom here on earth, leading people to Jesus and living a supernatural life.
Know Our Identity & Purpose In God
Jesus forever answered the question of what we are worth, He gave His life for us. His sacrifice makes a way to be free and have life more abundantly. We find our identity in Him as sons and daughters of God before we are anything else. We no longer work for love but we work from love.
Carry His Heart For the World
Jesus is our example for what the normal Christian life is meant to look like. We want our hearts to align with His heart for the world.
God’s Word Transforms
Scripture is God’s letter to humanity. We come to scripture not as a duty to be checked off but to discover who He is and what He is like. It’s about developing a relationship with the author of the book. Jesus is the lens through which we interpret scripture. He is the perfect representation of the Father and our best picture of what God is like.
Heart of Worship
Worship is more than the songs that we sing or a time set aside on a Sunday morning. Worship is bringing our lives as an offering to King Jesus. It’s a lifestyle that seeks to bless the heart of God.
Lifestyle of Prayer
Prayer in its simplest form is conversation with God. We talk to God and we expect Him to talk back. It’s about moving into unity with God and walking with Him everyday.
Every Person Is Valuable
Everyone is valuable because of who made them. We want to treat one another according to God’s dream and purpose for their life. We want to celebrate progress, understanding that all of us are on a journey to be more like Jesus. We celebrate our differences knowing that each person is fearfully and wonderfully made and carries the fingerprints of God. It means that we don’t have to agree to be together, we can be disagree and still celebrate each other and gather around our love for Jesus.
Better Together
You don’t have to be perfect to belong. Sometimes life is messy, we get it. The goal is that we are growing towards healthy, towards each other and towards God. We want to love people well and give people a place to be seen and known. People were created to be free, not controlled. We want to see people launched into their God given destiny in the context of a community that celebrates them.
Generous Like Our Father
God is extravagantly generous and our generosity is a response and reflection of Him. He is a good Father who gives good gifts to His children.
What We Believe
- We believe that there is only one true God who is the eternal King, Creator, and Redeemer of all that is. He is perfectly holy, just, loving, and truthful. He has revealed Himself to be eternally self-existent – one being in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
- We believe that the Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God.
- We believe that humankind was created in the image of God to know and enjoy Him, yet we willfully rejected the Lordship and glory of God for which we were intended. Because of this, sickness, death, and judgment entered the world and now creation experiences the effects and consequences of sin.
- We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the one and only Son of God, was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and is God’s Anointed One, empowered by the Holy Spirit to inaugurate God’s kingdom on earth. He was crucified for our sins, died, was buried, resurrected, and ascended into heaven, and is now alive today in the presence of God the Father and in His people. He is "true God" and "true man."
- We believe that we are saved by God’s grace, through faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Anyone can be restored to fellowship with God through repenting, believing, and receiving Jesus as their Savior and Lord. The Holy Spirit convicts, regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and adopts us as we enter the kingdom of God as His sons and daughters.
- We believe in the ongoing, sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life and minister super-naturally. The baptism of the Holy Spirit, according to Acts 1:4-8 and 2:4, is poured out on believers that they might have God’s power to be His witnesses.
- We believe in the victorious, redemptive work of Christ on the cross provides freedom from the power of the enemy – sin, lies, sickness, and torment.
- We believe that the Church consists of all who put their faith in Jesus Christ. He gave His Church the ordinances of baptism and communion. The Church exists to carry on the ministry of Jesus Christ and further advance His kingdom by undoing the works of the enemy, preaching and living the good news of God’s love, and discipling the nations – baptizing and teaching them to love and obey God.
- We believe in the ever-increasing government of God and in the Blessed Hope, which is the glorious, visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to rule and reign with His overcoming bride – the Church.
- We believe that heaven and hell are real places. There will be a resurrection of the lost and the saved, the one to everlasting death and the other to everlasting life.