WHO WE ARE
Our vision is to glorify God by multiplying disciples and churches to reach the next generation and the nations.
Our mission is to make disciples who love God and others
Rhythms
We Gather all together on Sundays and Scatter into Home Groups throughout the week.
Gather | Sundays
We gather on Sundays as a response to the gospel to worship through singing, preaching and teaching, participating in the sacraments, and sharing stories. Hebrews 10:25 calls Christians to not forsake meeting together, but to encourage one another and spur one another towards love. We believe the first step towards being the church is for all of us to be together for the sake of encouraging each other with the hope of the gospel and reflecting to the world the love we have in Christ.
Scatter | Home Groups
We scatter throughout the week into Home Groups where people grow, are in community, and live on mission all in response to the gospel. Acts 2:46 says the church met in the temple and in each others homes. These groups are small enough to care for the people in the group, but big enough to dare to engage the neighborhoods and networks around them. We believe the second step towards being the church is recognizing the church isn’t a place with programs that meets once a week, but a people with a purpose that meet in the places they live throughout the week.
Core values
The values that drive Salt Church are a commitment to reveling in God’s act of reaching down to us in the gospel and responding by reaching up, in, and out.
Down | Gospel
The Gospel is the good news that God saves sinners through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. The gospel isn’t how we can get to God, but how God has come down to us. Jesus has done what we never could do for ourselves by defeating our greatest enemies of satan, sin and death. The Gospel isn’t just the ABC’s of following Jesus. It is of first importance in all we do as a church (1 Cor. 15:1-4) and is for both the unbeliever and the believer.
Up | Growth
The Gospel is such wonderful news that we can’t help but respond in faith, repentance, and worship. Jesus comes down to us in order to bring us up to God (1 Peter 3:18). The goal of the gospel is not just to save us from hell, but to renew our character and form us to look like Jesus. Growth as a disciple of Jesus comes through continually turning from sin towards Christ in faith and learning to worship God in all things. This is a delight and not a duty.
In | Community
The gospel doesn’t just change an individual, but it creates a new people. Jesus doesn’t wait for us to clean our lives up before we come to him, but he moves into our mess and loves us. Likewise, we want to move in towards others and love them despite the messiness of life. We don’t just want to share the gospel, but our lives as well (1 Thes. 2:8). In the gospel, Christians are made into a new community that loves like family and serves one another as the world sees what it means to follow Jesus.
Out | Mission
The gospel is God’s mission to redeem all of creation and we are invited into this mission! As God sent Jesus into the world, Jesus sends us out into the world to declare the gospel in both word and deed (John 20:21) Missions is not just one ministry within the church, but the very orientation of the church. The same gospel that transforms us internally also compels us outward on mission. The mission to make disciples is not fully embraced until disciples begin to learn to make more disciples.