Core Values

Worship

Inspiring Worship Service
Inspiring worship occurs where there is effective multifaceted communication of attitudes, values, beliefs, and information:
1. Between God and believers.
2. Between believers and their fellow believers.
3. Between believers and the unchurched.

Inspiring worship is culturally relevant, a team effort, strategic, multifaceted, celebrative and reflective. Inspiring worship will be meaningful to regular attenders, comprehensible to newcomers, and alive to the presence of God and response oriented. When worship is inspiring, it draws people to the services “all by itself”. It makes going to church exciting and fun!

Fellowship Bible Church is passionate about the Great Commandment.
Matthew 22:36-37
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, ”‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.”

Discipleship

Maturity
Discipleship is all about bringing believers to maturity in Christ. It is important to realize that evangelism is simply the first step in the disciple making process. We must have at the core of our ministry the goal of bring individual believers to spiritual maturity. This is one of the primary purposes of the church. Paul labored to present every person complete or mature in Christ: Colossians 1:28, “And we proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in Christ.” The writer of Hebrews reminds us to press on to maturity: Hebrews 6:1, “Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity…”

Maturity is Christlikeness. It is men, women, and children demonstrating the character qualities of Jesus Christ in both their private and in public lives. God’s goal is for the church to be filled with ordinary men, women and children who exemplify the extraordinary integrity, temperament, wholeness, compassion, individuality, boldness, righteousness, earnestness, love, forgiveness, selflessness, and faithfulness of Jesus Christ!

We would describe a maturing believer as one whose life reflects a growing commitment to:

Biblical accuracy and authority

Personal purity and integrity

Evangelistic courage and concern

Healthy relationship and the priority of family

Serving others by doing the work of the ministry

Fellowship Bible Church is fully committed to the Great Commission.
Matthew 28:19-20
19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Fellowship Bible Church holds fast to the authority of the Word of God.
2 Timothy 4:2
2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.

Community

The Church
The church is described in the Bible as a body or family. We find in 1 Corinthians 12:12-20, how believers, being many make up one body. “But now there are many members, but one body,” 1 Corinthians 12:20. Romans 12:4-5 states that, “For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.” In his letter to the Ephesians Paul states that the community of believers are of the same household or family. Ephesians 2:19, “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household.”

What is terribly missing in all too many churches is the experience of “body life” – that warm genuine fellowship of Christian with Christian which the New Testament calls koinonia. This is one of reasons the word Fellowship is used in our church name. The New Testament lays heavy emphasis upon the need for Christians to know each other, closely and intimately enough to be able to bear one another’s burdens, confess faults one to another, encourage, exhort, admonish one another and minister to one another. As we carry out the various “one another” ministries of New Testament-style body life at Fellowship Bible Church, we will come to understand the greatness of the church as designed by God. There are over fifty “one another” statements and commands in the New Testament that call us to a special kind of life together here at Fellowship Bible Church. The common thread in these “one another” passages is the importance of relationships. The church is not a building; it is a people. The church is not an organization; it is an organism that is organized. Fellowship Bible Church is committed to the importance and priority of people and relationships.

Fellowship Bible Church values people and relationships.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Matthew 22:39
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Luke 10:36
“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?”

Service

Authentic Service
We believe that biblical influence is realized through serving others by investing our lives in them. Our greatest satisfaction in life comes, when motivated by our love for Jesus Christ, we exercise our gifts in serving others. When we serve together as a body, we become an authentic intentional witness to our community and the world. In doing so we become a worshiping community of influence.

Fellowship Bible Church is committed to serving Jesus Christ by investing our lives in serving others.
Mark 10:45
45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

1 Peter 4:10
10 As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.