Vision Statement

  • Embracing the Jesus who embraces the world. 

    Our Vision Statement is a biblically-rich and motivating word picture that expresses what we’re all about as a church.

 

  • The idea of “embrace” captures the essence of Jesus’ great dual-commandment to love God and others (Mark 12:29-31; Luke 10:25-37). We love God by embracing His Son, Jesus (John 8:42; 14:10). We love others by embracing those that Jesus embraces, and on the cross, Jesus embraced the world. His embrace encompasses people of all races, nationalities, social and economic statuses, and walks of life. Our own embrace of Jesus and the world is made possible only because we are first embraced by God, who “so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son”  (John 3:16; see also 1 John 4:19).

     

    The following well-known prayer wonderfully expresses the spirit of Cornerstone’s
    Vision Statement:

     

    Lord Jesus Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard wood of the cross that everyone might come within the reach of your saving embrace: So clothe us in your Spirit that we, reaching out our hands in love, may bring those who do not know you to the knowledge and love of you, for the honour of your name.  Amen.  (The Book of Common Prayer)

     

    Jesus died on the cross not only to make us right with God (Romans 5:1), but also to make us right with each other. God cancels the hostility between us in Christ, and brings us to embrace (Ephesians 2:15-18, The Message). In this sense, our vision statement also reminds us that the relationships between the people within our church should be characterized by loving unity and reconciliation (Colossians 3:12-14).

     

     

     

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