About Us
Our mission and our values demonstrate who we are and flow from what we believe.
Our Mission
“We exist to glorify God by gathering together, growing in Christ, and going into the world with the gospel.”
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Gather together
We glorify God by our weekly Sunday gathering as we respond to Him together with worship, prayer, preaching, and fellowship, all built on His Word and empowered by His Spirit. The Sunday gathering is a dress rehearsal for that coming Day!
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Grow together
We also glorify God as we grow together: in our faith and trust in God, in love for one another, in our battle against sin, and in bearing one another’s burdens in suffering. None of this can take place alone, so we want to together become more like our Savior.
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Going into the world
We glorify God when we take the good news of Christ into all the world, obeying Jesus’ command to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19-20) - beginning with our community and extending, as God gives us opportunity, to all the world.
Here's What We Value as a Church
The core values of any organization reflect who it is and what it believes. At Living Faith Church, we have seven core values we share with the churches of Sovereign Grace Churches.
Gospel-Centered
It’s all about Jesus. From beginning to end, the Bible points us to the amazing reality that God has been merciful to sinners by sending Jesus. We want to display God’s glory by celebrating, proclaiming, and living the gospel through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Reformed
Based on the Scriptures alone, we believe that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, for the glory of God alone. God has graciously chosen a people from every tribe, tongue, and nation. We are glad recipients of his marvelous grace.
Continuationist
To do what Jesus has commanded us to do, we need power. Thankfully, God himself provides this power through the Holy Spirit who lives in every believer. The Holy Spirit empowers us for life and mission and gives supernatural gifts to build up the church, just as he did in the book of Acts.
Complementarian
Men and women, while different, are both created in the image of God to display the glory of God by reflecting the relationships of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and of Christ to the church. According to God’s good design, men and women play distinct, but complementary, roles in the church and the home.
Elder-Governed
Jesus Christ reigns as head over the church, and he gives his church elders (pastors) to govern and lead under his authority. We believe that men, qualified by both character and gifting, are to serve as elders by loving God’s people.
Interdependent
In the Bible, we see the importance of interdependence among God’s churches. At Living Faith Church, we seek to express a similar interdependence with other Sovereign Grace churches throughout the world, through our common fellowship, mission, and governance. This allows us to do far more together than we ever could alone.
Missional
We believe Jesus has called the whole church to be on mission until the day that he returns, and so God's mission is not an extra-curricular activity to us, but a lens through which we see all of our lives.
Partnerships
We enjoy a rich relationship with churches and organizations in the Franklin area and the broader United States. Our partnerships help us to care for our members and advance the gospel.
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