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The Values are the thread that connects the various churches within Movement of Alliance Communities to one another. They establish and shape the atmosphere and infrastructure of our churches.
I. Teaching Through the Bible
We approach our teaching and learning with these three basic questions:
What does the Bible say? What does it mean? How does it apply to my life?
Our value of teaching through the Bible
...creates a natural unity and sense of community within our movementeach
Sunday morning, we teach and learn from the same scriptures together at all
the MAC churches.
...requires us to teach all of scripture. By teaching through the Bible, our
community is kept spiritually in balancerather than focusing on popular or pet
topics, we open ourselves to the full counsel of God. We allow the Holy Spirit
to correct, challenge, and strengthen our churches as we move through the
scriptures verse by verse.
...allows for Biblical history and culture to set a contextual backdrop for each
verse, pointing us to deeper meanings that could be missed or
misunderstood when the Word is read superficially or apart from the
surrounding text.
...maintains the integrity and authenticity of our teachinganyone who teaches
at Exit 59 participates in teaching pool, a weekly meeting where movement
pastors hold one another accountable and discuss the weeks chapter
together.
II. Organic Church Communities
In short: its all about God, not about us.
Think about a dandelion. The seeds of a dandelion don't control where they float or landthey are swept up and carried along by the wind. Where they fall, they take root and bloom. When we call our church community organic, we have the dandelion in mind. We are the seeds, and we depend on the Holy Spirit, our wind, to shape, transform, and equip the Exit 59 community.
We believe that God wants to accomplish his plans and his ministry even more than we do. Instead of casting our own vision and programs and then asking God to bless them, we want to find the current of Gods vision and jump in.
In the same way, when it comes to church staff and leadership, we dont recruit the best and the brightest, but instead, we believe God will stack the deck for His church. We rely on the Holy Spirit to call and raise up leaders, elders, and pastors, equipping them for ministry as they live and work out their callings.
III. Bi-vocational Ministry
The Great Commission is for everyone, not just pastors or missionaries. We believe, then, that each of us is called to a life of ministry: a life in which we allow God to use our gifts, passions, intellect, and influence in his work of redeeming people and establishing his kingdom on earth.
The pastors of our church are bi-vocationalthey lead and work at Exit 59 in various capacities, but they hold other jobs (ranging from quality control in a coffee roastery to business and sales, to education and photography) to support themselves financially. This way of organizing church leadership accomplishes a few key things:
Basically, we live to see our gifts, passions, and callings intermingleto watch the lines between them blur and dissolve. All our work and all our relationships, both inside and outside the church, are meant to draw people into an understanding of Christs love.
IV. Calling, Equipping, and Sending
We want to see people doing the things God has put within them to do. We call every person at Exit 59 to be engaged in the ministries of the church, both for the church and for the communities of Grant County.
Our larger group of churches is called the Movement of Alliance Communities for a reason: we live in anticipation of Gods call on our lives. He may move us in any of three ways:
