A House for his Glory
“Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
See, darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.
Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn.”
Isaiah 60:1-3
Arise
We hear the call to establish a multi-generational uprising of radical Jesus followers for a new era. A holy and devoted people whose pursuit is His presence, whose priority is His kingdom and whose desire is that His glory fill the whole earth.
We see a whole community of people established in character, secured in gifting and unleashed into heavens purpose. Inspired to arise, empowered to shine, we lay down our own agendas to turn the world upside-down for the glory of God.
Shine
We live as pioneers not settlers, willing to take a risk and mess up rather than play it safe and miss out.
We Arise When....
We relentlessly pursue Jesus, living as he calls us to live, loving as he showed us to love, becoming more like him.
We submit ourselves to the leadership of the Holy Spirit in all things, choosing to go where he leads, preferring the comfort of his presence over the safety of our own understanding.
We live as pioneers not settlers, willing to take a risk and mess up rather than play it safe and miss out.
We build character then release gifting. recognising that God alone gives the gifts we will help build vessels that carry those gifts well.
We see every opportunity to serve as an opportunity to love.
We go together on the journey as family, living united in authentic community.
We decide that the first impression we give and the lasting taste we leave will be Jesus
We love and honour one another, living and working together for the glory of God.
We submit ourselves to the leadership of the Holy Spirit in all things, choosing to go where he leads, preferring the comfort of his presence over the safety of our own understanding.
Oversight Team
Statement of Faith
1. We believe in the One true God, eternally existent in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and that he loves the world and all people in it, as Creator, Saviour and Judge.
2. We believe the Bible to be divinely inspired; the only infallible, authoritative word of God, fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
3. We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, as God the Son and Son of God. We believe in the incarnation, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. We believe He is fully man and fully God and He is the first fruits of our own resurrection and the head of the universal Church, the body of Christ.
4. We believe that all people everywhere are created in the image of God and have inherent and equal dignity and worth from the moment of conception. We believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end; and that we must have concern for the physical and spiritual needs of our fellow men.
5. We believe that sin was brought into the world by Adam and Eve and affects every human and their propensity for wrongdoing, therefore rendering all people in need of salvation. We believe Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation and repentant faith in Jesus, results in regeneration (new birth) by the power of the Holy Spirit. All who believe in Christ are justified by faith alone and salvation cannot be earned or deserved.
6. We believe in the deity of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity. He is sent by the Father and the Son, is present in all true believers, convicts of sin, regenerates the sinner, assures the believer of salvation, brings true understanding of the scriptures, and acts as advocate and guide. We believe in the subsequent act of baptism in the Holy Spirit, and that He gives gifts to God’s people (1 Corinthians 12) to empower and edify the body of Christ.
7. We believe that understanding of human sexuality is found through relationship with Jesus. The tenderness of sexual union belongs within biblical marriage, of one man and one woman for life. For those not in a biblical marriage, God invites those of every sexual orientation to the fulfilling and intimate call of holiness through celibacy.
Connections
Arise Church is a member of the Ground Level apostolic church network in which we work with other Churches up and down the country from a range of backgrounds to see the Kingdom advance.