OUR VISION
For more than 20 years, our pastoral ministry has been rooted in New York City because we believe God has a purpose for this city and the people who call it home. We want to see lost New Yorkers far from God transformed into Compelling Missional Disciples—people whose lives are shaped by the presence, mission, and formation. We believe following Jesus means more than gathering on Sunday; it means being sent into the places we live, work, study, create, and lead to seek the good of our city and make His Kingdom known. We pray that, in our generation, the fame and deeds of God would be renewed and known throughout New York and beyond.
We begin with the Bible, trusting it as the authoritative and trustworthy Word of God. From this foundation, we hold to the historic teachings of Christian orthodoxy as articulated in the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed.
The Gospel is the good news that God our Father, the Creator, out of His great love for us, has come to rescue us from sin, satan, death, and hell, and to renew all things in and through the work of Jesus Christ on our behalf, and to establish His Kingdom through His people, in the power of the Holy Spirit. This is for God’s great glory and our profound joy.
We also subscribe to contemporary summaries of Christian doctrine as expressed in the Lausanne Covenant and the statement of faith of the Langham Partnership. Learn more below.
Compelling Missional Disciples are followers of Christ that are marked by and seek after three things: the tangible presence of God through a culture of worship and prayer, counter-formation out of the ways of the world and into the ways of Jesus, and joining God on sacrificial mission for the renewal of all things by seeking the lost and serving the poor.
Rather than holding an emphasis on one of these areas, we believe that it is the intersection of these three things that creates a compelling disciple of Jesus.
From gospel resistance to tangible presence
We want to see people go from Gospel resistance to loving and pursing the tangible presence of God through a culture of prayer and worship.
From a selfish orientation to counter formation
We want to see people move from a selfish orientation to practicing counter-formation in the way of Jesus by learning how to walk daily in His ways, and not in the ways of the world.
From worldly ambition to sacrificial mission
We want to see people trade their worldly ambition to live on sacrificial mission with the Holy Spirit for the renewal of all things by serving the poor and seeking the lost.