What kind of church do you want to be part of?

Much of my time working in church has been as part of a team at the City Temple a large church in the center of Cardiff, and that has been a great learning experience. Now that I spend much of my time leading a smaller local church one of the questions I have been thinking about now is "what kind of church do you want to Beacon Church to become?"

A few weeks ago on Sunday morning I spoke about the kind of church that we want to become:

A Well Grounded Church—a church that is built on strong spiritual foundations. And as a church we have spend quite a bit of time looking at how we can strengthen those foundations as we looked at the Fruit of the Spirit and the learned from the early churches experiences in the book of Acts.

A Welcoming Church – A church that is open to all! We want to work hard to welcome those that come through the doors of this church. Those that know Jesus and those who are still on a journey to discovering his love

A Worshiping Church – A church that is known for lifting up Jesus. We know that as we lift up Jesus He will draw people to Himself. Let us worship him when we come together and as we live our lives day by day.

A Witnessing Church—our church mission statement is:

“Touching the Heart of Man,
with the Heart of God,
Through the Heart of His People”

We constantly want to remind ourselves that we are called to reach out to those who have not yet come to know Jesus, with His Good News.

A Whosoever Church - all ages, all backgrounds and all races. We are privileged as a church to have people of all ages and nationalities amongst us. This is exciting because this a picture of the church across the world. Let us pray for open hearts to all who join with us and that we will always seek to be a “Whosoever Church” that welcomes whoever comes to us.

We know that Beacon church is far from perfect but we are excited about the future and all that God has planned for us. I wonder what type of church you want to be a part of - My prayer is that we will be moving forward to achieve the goal of being a local church that Jesus is proud to be known as the builder!