Our Vision

Our overall vision is encompassed in three statements:

To love God

To love each other

To love those who don’t know Christ

Our vision, as a church, for 2012 is all about growth and growing together. Jesus’ great commission to his Church is to “makes disciples”. Disciples are apprentices, learners, followers, students who follow a master. Jesus is our master and we are his disciples, who are called to give ourselves to following him and introducing others to him and then helping them follow him too.

What does that mean?

We believe the Holy Spirit has spoken to us through the description of the Church in 1 Corinthians 3:9 “...you are God’s field…”, a picture of growth, of maturing, of more and more fruitfulness.

We feel that God has highlighted two aspects of this image for us now at Roxeth:

To grow one by one – just as a field is made up of many individual plants all growing in their own way, we feel the Spirit seeks to grow us one by one in our faith, relationship and gifting with the Lord. To grow in the knowledge of the faith – based upon the finished work of Jesus Christ on the the cross for our forgiveness and right standing before God and upon his resurrection from the dead for our new life in Him.

To grow as one – while a field is comprised of many individual plants it is a unity, a whole, it grows together. This is the other emphasis of our vision – that Roxeth grows as one, together in the Lord Jesus. This aspect is our key emphasis this year as we learn, worship and journey together as followers of the Lord Jesus.

As a result we are running a teh Discipleship Explored Course from late January to mid March this year.

Around 40 Roxeth folk are also going to Spring Harvest together this year – Minehead week 1!

Our church family life will concentrate on unity and developing godly, loving relationships within the church, on growing up together into the fulness of God in Jesus. Growing as one into greater effectiveness and maturity as the Body of Christ here.

As “God’s field”, we look to His Spirit to grow us one by one and to grow as one so that we bear fruit for Him and look more and more like Jesus, the Lord.