guiding principles

River of Joy guiding principles

Guiding principles help us as a community of faith to navigate our life together.  Just like strategies, guiding principles are unique to each faith community as we collectively strive for a kingdom life together.  These principles provide a broad philosophy for addressing various circumstances irrespective to changes in our strategies, leadership, or particular activities.

As a community of faith, River of Joy seeks to creatively engage our local and global community through Christ.  These are our guiding principles:

  • We gather to go.  We come together as a community for the purpose of equipping each other to live  fruitful lives in the world.
  • The community is the curriculum.  We are a learning community committed to teaching and learning from each other as we move forward in a common life.
  • We partner freely.  We know we do not have the corner on kingdom living so we seek to partner with individuals and communities that are engaging in kingdom work.

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