Our values

We value our relationships one with another and with God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit.

We try to be transparent - aware that we unconsciously 'hide' our true feelings.

 December 2011

Following three weeks of prayer and fasting during September, October and November the leadership team have developed the following values.  These values will be the subject of teaching and preaching during the first part of 2012.

Values (in no particular order)

1.  We value the internals over the externals.  The why over the what. Our heart attitudes and motivations are of greater concern than what we are doing on the outside. As we let God work at our internals the externals will flow out of what He is doing in our hearts. This requires honesty and openness with ourselves, God and others. We value recognising our emotions and reflecting what they reveal about our heart attitudes.  As God reveals wrong attitudes and beliefs in us and unhelpful baggage that we carry we seek to work those through with Him and others rather than ignoring and burying those things so we may grow to be more like Christ. (Download Martin Lazenby's talk here)

2.  We value relationships with God and with others in the church. We desire deep relationships with God and our brothers and sisters.  We are more than co-workers on a common mission, we are family, God's children, and we seek real, honest, deep friendships with others in the church. We want to share life with each other - hurts, hopes, joys, trials. We hunger for an increasing depth of relationship with our heavenly father and desire to spur one another on in going deeper with Him, depending on one another for support, encouragement and companionship as we live out the adventure He has planned for us. (Download Gamel Byles' talk here)

3. We value each other. We believe that we are all children of the King, made in His imageand redeemed as dearly loved objects of His delight.Everyone in HCC is dearly loved by God all of the time and worthy of honour as such.  We seek to see one another as GOd, our father, sees us.  We seek to see the best in each other, to recognise the gifts God has given each of us and to release the potential we have in Him so that we can serve Him as He leads. We seek to create a permission giving culture in which each one of us can operate in the fullness of who God has made us.  We desire HCC to be a place where God's love is exhibited in His people and where we all feel valued and accepted.  We are the body of Christ.  We seek to work in team and in a unity of spirit, recognising that not one of us has all the answers and that we all have differing and complementary gifts, each of which must be utilised if HCC is to fulfil its potential in God.  We seek to lead as servants, in humility, providing direction and spiritual leadership, relying on God's ultimate leadership and guidance of HCC. (Download Martin Crook's talk here)

4. We value God's growing kingdom. We believe God is establishing His kingdom through HCC (as well as every other part of God's global church). We are children of the king, we are kingdom people.  We desire and expect to see heaven's power breaking out in our daily lives both in the natural (kindness, justice, mercy, generosity, helping the poor, etc) and in the supernatural (healing, miracles, prophesy, words of knowledge, etc.).  Our father has infinite resources and we have authority in Jesus' name as ambassadors of the king.  We seek for God to be renewing our minds so that we perceive things from a heavenly perspective and in faith see His kingdom power breaking out in our circumstances and daily lives.  As we live out kingdom lives we believe God will win more people to His family in our community through us, saving them into relationship with Himself and seeing them, in turn, live out exciting kingdom lives for Him. (Download Alan Cass's talk here)