Our Values

Worship: Jesus liberates us to love God.

  • Gospel Centrality: We see all of life, the scriptures, and the church through the lens of the Gospel, not moralism, intellectualism, or mere experience.

  • Winsomely Reformed: We embrace the Reformed articulation of the faith with humble gratitude for other faithful traditions in the body of Christ.

  • Contextualized: We reflect and root ourselves in the particular places where God has put us.

  • Liturgical: We rehearse and narrate the Gospel in our worship, and seek to benefit from the riches of historic Christian worship.

  • Hospitable: We welcome those who have not yet embraced Christianity, honoring and addressing their questions, doubts, and struggles.

Community: Jesus liberates us to love each other.

  • Covenantal: We call people to see themselves and each other not as consumers of “church,” but as covenantal members in the body of Christ.

  • Partnership: We are committed to working together with other Liberti Churches in mission, for the sake of the kingdom of God.

  • Ecumenical: We are committed to partnering as churches in mission together with all of Christ’s church that confess historic Christian faith.

Mercy: Jesus liberates us to love others near and far.

  • Compassion: We are committed to tangibly demonstrating compassion and justice for the neediest people and most broken places in our region and world.

  • Church Planting: We believe that planting new churches locally and globally is the most effective way to reach the world for Jesus.

What Is A Communion?

Communion involves commonality, participation together, and sharing. Sometimes translated fellowship (from the Greek koinonia), communion captures the deep relationship, mutuality, and partnership of Christian community and ministry.

3 ways Liberti churches seek to be in communion:

  1. We enjoy communion with the triune God through Christ. Communion with God is the basic Gospel reality that we enjoy through the work of Jesus Christ: “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship (koinonia) of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” (1 Corinthians 1:9)

  2. We enjoy life and ministry together in the local church. In Acts, Christians devoted themselves to ministry and fellowship, holding “everything in common” (Acts 2:42; 4:32). We seek to cultivate deep relationship and friendship in the covenant community of faith. This involves both relational and material investment in one another and our shared local ministry.

  3. We share resources between churches for the sake of mission and compassion. The early church shared and sent leaders who connected and strengthened churches, addressed crises, and coordinated famine relief (Acts 11:28-30; 1 Corinthians 16:1-3; Romans 15:25-26). In the same way, we partner together to plant and strengthen churches and meet regional and global needs that are more than one local church can tackle alone.