Community Values

Our saying here is that “What gets believed in gets talked about, but what gets valued gets done.”  We value transformation: personal, familial, communal, regional, global.  Here are some of our transformational values that drive what we do.  They are tied to a larger body of teaching that we pass on relationally and learn through foot-to-ground work. 

• Transformation: a Baffling Call, a Lonely Road, a Journey of Willingness
• Rugged Desert Spirituality: Beyond Programmatic Constructs to Unforced Rhythms of Grace; Beyond False to True Strength and Beauty; Beyond Consuming to Creating/Producing;  Beyond Recreation to Responsibility
• Thwarting the Spiritus Mundi: Get Bigger by Getting Smaller; Do More by Doing Less; Practice Randomness; Embrace the Beautitude Life; Practice Severe Self-Examination and Compassion for Others
• The Life of Jesus that Nobody Wants: Presenced among People and Positioned in Poverty
• Becoming a Temple for God and Men:  the connection between Body, Soul, and Spirit; the Sacred Secular in all of Life; A Church of One but also a City without a Church
• The Triad of a Disciple Different Enough to Make a Difference in a Different World: Authenticity, Availability, and Vulnerability
• Sustainable Renewability or Renewable Sustainability?  The Progression from Renewed and Empowered People to Renewed and Empowered Possibilities to Renewed and Empowered Prosperities
• Co-regency: rediscovering the foundational spiritual dynamic of right standing between God, men, and women; the untapped power of engaging God’s harvest God’s way; Kingdom extension as producing and reproducing