- Walk humbly while depending on the Holy Spirit for wisdom, strength, power, peace, and victory over sin
- Discover and use their gifts to give glory to God by serving others
- Understand and demonstrate healthy and wholesome relationships by “doing life together” in a covenantal, God honoring way
- Make themselves available to be used by God to impact their sphere of influence
- Increasingly become more effective witnesses for Christ
- Live a life that demonstrates Jesus and His love for the world in practical ways such as: meeting the needs of the poor, challenging injustice, visiting the sick, caring for the widowed, orphaned, jailed & reaching the unsaved
- Participate and support outward ministry – both short and long term – to share the Gospel, partner in church planting, and supporting fellow believers and churches.
Deuteronomy 4:2, II Timothy 3:15-17
Colossians 1:18, I Peter 5:1-3, Acts 20,
Philippians 4:10-20, Titus 1:5, Galatians 5:1 & 13
Isaiah 61:1-3, Romans 12:10, II Corinthians 12:5-10,
Ephesians 3:15, Revelation 22:1-6
- The Bible is the Word of God; fully inspired and without error. It is the supreme and final authority for all matters of Christian life and belief.
- There is one true and living God, who eternally exists in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—who are equal in every divine perfection and who execute distinct but harmonious offices in all the work of the Godhead.
- Man was created by God in His own image, but, through his sin, incurred physical and spiritual death. As a result, all people are separated from God by their sin, lost, and without hope apart from salvation in Christ.
- The Gospel is the good news of God’s saving actions towards sinners through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, the eternal son of God, took on human nature, lived a sinless life, and died a substitutionary death for sinners.
- Salvation is a free gift that comes only by God’s grace, through faith in Jesus Christ. Anyone who turns from their sin and trusts in Jesus Christ and His death on their behalf receives forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life
- The Holy Spirit works progressively to transform genuine believers more and more into the image of Christ. His work is carried on in our hearts through such appointed means as the study of Scripture, prayer, worship, and fellowship with other believers. The Holy Spirit empowers believers for Christian witness and service. He also gives gifts for the building up of the body of Christ, the church.
- The universal Church, composed of genuine followers of Christ, exists to worship, serve, and glorify God. All members of the universal Church are to be vitally committed members of a local church, where they receive pastoral care and the opportunity to employ their God-given gifts in His service
- Jesus Christ will return to the earth, personally and visibly, to establish His kingdom. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost—the saved to endless joy, living and reigning with Christ, and the lost to endless punishment away from the benevolent presence of God.
In Philippians 1:5 Paul commends the Philippian church for the “partnership in the gospel” which he enjoyed with them. We see that local churches in the New Testament were working in partnership with apostolic men to advance the Kingdom of God together. In the same way, we at Westside Church are involved in a committed relational partnership with a team of apostolically-minded men and women named “New Covenant Ministries International.” (Definition of apostolic: authentic New Testament Christianity) New Covenant Ministries International (NCMI) is a team of trans-local ministries who are committed to discipling the nations by planting churches in every country, city, town and village of the world. As an integral part of this, members of the team will also bring complimentary ministry into existing churches in order to bring maturity and to “equip the saints” to fulfill the ministry of the church.