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Our Vision
For the Gospel, For the City
For the Gospel
First and foremost, we are a church that is centered on and driven by the gospel, the good news of Jesus. We are a people who have placed our love and trust in the person and work of Jesus to reconcile us to the Father, and this reality fundamentally shapes all that we do. The gospel is the foundation we stand on, the lens we look through, and the fuel that drives us.
For the City
We recognize that the gospel compels us to go. Though this world is not our final home and in a sense we are exiles here, we work for the good of our city (Jeremiah 29:7). We seek to be a light in the darkness and to see our community changed by the gospel. Our church is not just inwardly focused. We take the Great Commission seriously as we seek to make disciples in our community and to the ends of the earth (Matthew 28:19-20).
Our Culture
Disciples who make disciples
For the Gospel
Discipleship is helping others follow Jesus. Jesus calls his disciples to make disciples, so at Northway, we want to be a people who are disciples of Jesus that are constantly making more disciples of Jesus. To cultivate a culture of discipleship, we have structures in place that are aimed to help people come to know Jesus and to grow in their love and trust of Jesus.
Our Northway family has four cultural values that highlight our discipleship structure.
As a Family, we...
Gather: We intentionally gather as one.
As we all come together in certain settings, we encourage one another with the truths of God. When we see other followers of Jesus in our community engaging through singing praises to God and sitting under the Word of God, it spurs our hearts to love and trust God more, and it grows our love for one another.
We value the Sunday morning gathering where we can all worship together as the Northway family through singing and through engaging God’s Word. This is not just an event we attend, but it is a gathering in which we participate. Our services are at 9:00AM and 10:30AM.
Connect: We authentically connect with others.
While our corporate settings are fruitful for our walks with Jesus, we recognize our deep need to live in authentic community with other believers in our daily lives. We need tight knit community that we not only worship alongside in corporate settings but that we walk together with through our everyday lives. We need people to lean on in trying times, confide in for wisdom, and to in love and truth spur us on to obey Christ.
We walk aside one another as we follow Jesus, and our Home Teams are a pivotal way we personally invest in community. Home Teams are small groups of 6-16 people who meet together at a time and place of their own choosing to study the Bible, pray, and cultivate deep community.
Invest: We selflessly invest our time and resources.
As followers of Jesus, we are called to use our resources, passions, and abilities to build one another up in Christ and love others well. We recognize that all that we have is given to us by God, and we honor him by giving back to him what is his.
We give of our time and abilities through sacrificially serving our Northway family, and we sacrificially give a portion of our money and resources to be used for the ministry of the church. We have many avenues through which our people love and serve one another ranging from Sunday morning serving to meeting the needs of our people who have experienced loss.
Invite: We continually invite others to love and trust Jesus.
We know that as disciples of Jesus we are called to help one another follow Jesus and to make more disciples of Jesus. We must always be moving towards others with the gospel. Whether a new believer, or a seasoned believer, we all have the responsibility to make disciples of Jesus.
At Northway, we help advance God’s Kingdom through structured outreach such as our Storehouse Ministry, and we also do this organically through our people moving with the gospel towards others in their day to day lives.
Our Northway family has four cultural values that highlight our discipleship structure.
Core Beliefs
In Essential Beliefs, we have unity.
“There is one body, and one Spirit...one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all...” (Ephesians 4:4-6)
In the Non-Essentials, we have liberty.
“Receive one who is weak in faith, but not to dispute over doubtful things....who are you to judge another servant? So then each of us shall give account of himself to God...” (Romans 14:1,4, 12, 22)
In all things, we show charity.
“And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and if I should have all knowledge and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” (1 Corinthians 13:2)
The Essentials We Believe
The Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy.
Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 4:1-2; 17:19; Joshua 8:34; Psalms 19:7-10; 119:11,89,105,140; Isaiah 34:16; 40:8; Jeremiah 15:16; 36:1-32; Matthew 5:17-18; 22:29; Luke 21:33; 24:44-46; John 5:39; 16:13-15; 17:17; Acts 2:16ff.; 17:11; Romans 15:4; 16:25-26; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 1:1-2; 4:12; 1 Peter 1:25; 2 Peter 1:19-21.
God
There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
Genesis 1:1; 2:7; Exodus 3:14; 6:2-3; 15:11ff.; 20:1ff.; Leviticus 22:2; Deuteronomy 6:4; 32:6; 1 Chronicles 29:10; Psalm 19:1-3; Isaiah 43:3,15; 64:8; Jeremiah 10:10; 17:13; Matthew 6:9ff.; 7:11; 23:9; 28:19; Mark 1:9-11; John 4:24; 5:26; 14:6-13; 17:1-8; Acts 1:7; Romans 8:14-15; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 4:6; Colossians 1:15; 1 Timothy 1:17; Hebrews 11:6; 12:9; 1 Peter 1:17; 1 John 5:7.
Man
Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God’s creation. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.
Genesis 1:26-30; 2:5,7,18-22; 3; 9:6; Psalms 1; 8:3-6; 32:1-5; 51:5; Isaiah 6:5; Jeremiah 17:5; Matthew 16:26; Acts 17:26-31; Romans 1:19-32; 3:10-18,23; 5:6,12,19; 6:6; 7:14-25; 8:14-18,29; 1 Corinthians 1:21-31; 15:19,21-22; Ephesians 2:1-22; Colossians 1:21-22; 3:9-11.
Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
Genesis 3:15; Exodus 3:14-17; 6:2-8; Matthew 1:21; 4:17; 16:21-26; 27:22-28:6; Luke 1:68-69; 2:28-32; John 1:11-14,29; 3:3-21,36; 5:24; 10:9,28-29; 15:1-16; 17:17; Acts 2:21; 4:12; 15:11; 16:30-31; 17:30-31; 20:32; Romans 1:16-18; 2:4; 3:23-25; 4:3ff.; 5:8-10; 6:1-23; 8:1-18,29-39; 10:9-10,13; 13:11-14; 1 Corinthians 1:18,30; 6:19-20; 15:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20; Galatians 2:20; 3:13; 5:22-25; 6:15; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-22; 4:11-16; Philippians 2:12-13; Colossians 1:9-22; 3:1ff.; 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; 2 Timothy 1:12; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 2:1-3; 5:8-9; 9:24-28; 11:1-12:8,14; James 2:14-26; 1 Peter 1:2-23; 1 John 1:6-2:11; Revelation 3:20; 21:1-22:5.
God's Promise of Grace
Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. It is consistent with the free agency of man, and comprehends all the means in connection with the end. It is the glorious display of God’s sovereign goodness, and is infinitely wise, holy, and unchangeable. It excludes boasting and promotes humility.
All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end.
Genesis 12:1-3; Exodus 19:5-8; 1 Samuel 8:4-7,19-22; Isaiah 5:1-7; Jeremiah 31:31ff.; Matthew 16:18-19; 21:28-45; 24:22,31; 25:34; Luke 1:68-79; 2:29-32; 19:41-44; 24:44-48; John 1:12-14; 3:16; 5:24; 6:44-45,65; 10:27-29; 15:16; 17:6,12,17-18; Acts 20:32; Romans 5:9-10; 8:28-39; 10:12-15; 11:5-7,26-36; 1 Corinthians 1:1-2; 15:24-28; Ephesians 1:4-23; 2:1-10; 3:1-11; Colossians 1:12-14; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14; 2 Timothy 1:12; 2:10,19; Hebrews 11:39–12:2; James 1:12; 1 Peter 1:2-5,13; 2:4-10; 1 John 1:7-9; 2:19; 3:2.
The Church
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its two scriptural offices are that of pastor/elder/overseer and deacon. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor/elder/overseer is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.
Matthew 16:15-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-42,47; 5:11-14; 6:3-6; 13:1-3; 14:23,27; 15:1-30; 16:5; 20:28; Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 3:16; 5:4-5; 7:17; 9:13-14; 12; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:8-11,21; 5:22-32; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:18; 1 Timothy 2:9-14; 3:1-15; 4:14; Hebrews 11:39-40; 1 Peter 5:1-4; Revelation 2-3; 21:2-3.
The Family
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption.
Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation of the human race.
Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God’s pattern for marriage. Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral values and to lead them, through consistent lifestyle example and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and obey their parents.
Genesis 1:26-28; 2:15-25; 3:1-20; Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Joshua 24:15; 1 Samuel 1:26-28; Psalms 51:5; 78:1-8; Psalms 127; Psalms 128; 139:13-16; Proverbs 1:8; 5:15-20; 6:20-22; 12:4; 13:24; 14:1; 17:6; 18:22; 22:6,15; 23:13-14; 24:3; 29:15,17; 31:10-31; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; 9:9; Malachi 2:14-16; Matthew 5:31-32; 18:2-5; 19:3-9; Mark 10:6-12; Romans 1:18-32; 1 Corinthians 7:1-16; Ephesians 5:21-33; 6:1-4; Colossians 3:18-21; 1 Timothy 5:8,14; 2 Timothy 1:3-5; Titus 2:3-5; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 3:1-7.
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