Core Values Daily Devotional: Week 1 Values

Thank you for visiting the Lighthouse Fellowship Church of God blog. Both Pastor and I will be adding posts from time to time that we hope will be inspirational and informational.

This first series of blogs is going to center around the preaching series that Pastor is bringing forth on the core values of the church. Each day, we will post the daily readings from the devotional guides that have been prepared to supplement the weekly preaching and hopefully, enhance your understanding of the heart of the values being discussed.

For those of you visiting our blog who are not a part of our local church, let me offer a little background. For the past couple years, it has become ever more apparent to us as a church that we have drifted into a sea of complacency and ineffectiveness. We have been as busy as ever, but not seeming to accomplish much of anything that really mattered. So the elders took a good, long look at us as a church, and they realized that we needed a fresh start. A clean slate. A new launching pad. And so, they gathered together in August of '07 to seek the Lord and what He wanted for this body of believers. What came out of that meeting was the intense conviction that we must be transformed to once again be the church Christ intended.

To that end, our elders clarified the values upon which this "new church" would be built and encapsulated a vision for the church from these values. From these core values, we desire to be a body not just adjusted but transformed. We believe that by identifying what we believe to be most important and of highest priority in our church's value system, we surrender our agendas to the Lord and submit to His--for we believe that He has led us to focus on these values and to hold them dear. They are our guideposts on this road to transformation so that His glory may be manifest through us as we seek to exalt the Lord, help the saints of God grow in their walk, and help others who are seeking the Lord find Him.

In that spirit, we begin a discussion of our church's core values. Our march towards transformation begins as we explore more deeply the principles of value-based living and the values we as a church have deemed to be of highest priority and importance. If you are attending our church, you will receive a devotional guide for each of the next 8 weeks. We prepared these devotionals to supplement the preaching about the core values and to help motivate you to action as you grapple with these concepts.

I hope you enjoy these posts and will glean many good things from the Holy Spirit as we explore these core values together. ~Jennifer