Why We Are Here
North Point Community Church
As a community of faith, we are here to help people find meaning and belonging in life. It’s a purpose that ultimately finds it’s way as individuals connect with others in the journey, grow in Jesus Christ, and serve in the world.
But our story as a church is really an expression of another story, a much bigger story. One that finds expression in words like gospel, kingdom, missional, spiritual formation and the journey of faith.
Gospel, Kingdom & Jesus Christ
The gospel is the good news of the kingdom of God, the reign of Jesus Christ that is both here and now, and still yet to be fully realized. It is at the center of God’s great vision (story) of redemption for all creation. To step into the journey with God is to step into a relationship with Jesus Christ, for in this gospel and kingdom everything is centered in and through Jesus.
Missional God, Missional
The whole movement of this journey is a movement of redemption, a movement from the heart of a missional God to the hearts of a lost and broken world. The missional story then is the journey of the spiritual sojourner on a search for meaning and belonging. It is a journey of discovery that takes the sojourner into a community of faith that is experiencing the very life of the missional God in Jesus Christ. Even more, it is a journey that opens ones eyes to see their place not only in the community of faith but in the unfolding story of God’s greater vision for creation.
Therefore, to experience the kingdom of God is to experience the heart of the missional God. And to experience the heart of the missional God is to participate in the redemption story with the missional Church, a community of faith moving forward into God’s redemptive vision.
Discipleship, Spiritual Formation & the Journey of Faith
Each individual who enters into the journey finds that they are part of a process of spiritual life and formation. The path begins as the sojourner moves from a place of trust in themselves towards a trust in Jesus Christ and his kingdom. It is a transformation, a conversion, a move into a journey that is experienced with others and learned as they become disciples under Jesus Christ.
Along the way the individual moves from sojourner to disciple to “one who is sent” into the world (while ever deepening in their connection to community and life in Jesus Christ).