We Value Love, Mercy, Compassion & Grace:

We value love in human relationships and all truly loving actions and deeds. We value the exercise of compassion, mercy and grace in human life and dealings.

We value the practice of forgiveness and the pursuit of reconciliation and all attempts to establish these in human affairs. We value every legitimate attempt to alleviate suffering and heal hurts and care for the needs of individuals and society.

We value endeavours to redeem people and situations from the difficulties, wrongs and troubles in which they may have become entangled and to bring reconciliation where there has been estrangement.

We value and embrace the endeavour to restore ‘wholeness’ to human beings. We value Christian witness in all its forms, both personal and corporate, to the message of God’s redeeming love in Christ.

 

We hold these values because we believe in the loving and compassionate God who redeems the world:  

· God is a God whose nature is holy love; a God of mercy and compassion, of grace and steadfast, faithful love.  He is a God whose love stems from His own nature, not from the worthiness of the objects of His love. He is a God who delights in redemption.

· All life and all creation has been deeply marked by the fall of humankind away from God into evil.  Life lived away from God is ‘in the dark’, with all the consequent experiences of pain, suffering and trouble that mark and mar peoples’ lives and human history. In spite of this, human life is not outside the sphere of God’s love. In sheer mercy and grace He carried through a plan of salvation for mankind through the person of his Son Jesus Christ. In divine love, Jesus the Christ died in our place at Calvary so that we might live a new life characterised by forgiveness, reconciliation and peace between both ourselves and our Creator, and ourselves and our fellow human beings.

· Consequently, Christians are committed to demonstrating in their lives the mercy, grace and love of God, and to proclaiming to all people His saving grace in Christ.

· All this with the aim of bringing the healing of God’s redemption into His world.