Fellowship - Edification
Edification--The Church Existing for Itself
"And he gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of service to the building up of the body of Christ, until we all attain the unity of the faith to a mature man, to the measure of stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:11-13).
One of the primary goals of the Church must be the life-transformation of each of its members. This requires a strong program of Bible teaching and of training in discipleship and personal evangelism. Believers are to be committed one to another. The body of Christ is thus composed of interdependent members, each having received from the Holy Spirit gifts which are to be exercised for the up building of the whole body and for the bearing of one another's spiritual and temporal burdens. We thus desire to encourage in one another the development and use of each others abilities, knowing that "the whole body, as a harmonious structure knit together by that which every joint supplies, grows by the proper functioning of individual parts to its full maturity in love." (Ephesians 4:11-13; II Timothy 4:2-4; Titus 2:15; Galatians 6:1-2; Deuteronomy 6:1-2; I Corinthians 12-14; Romans 12:4-8; Hebrews 10:24-5; Hebrews 3:13; Titus 3:14; Acts 4:34-5; Acts 2:42ff; Joshua 1:8; Ephesians 4:16)
Fellowship-Edification is overseen by Pastor Dan Allen and Elder Rich Otero.