Mission and Vision of ACOP

[Kimberly]

Extending God’s grace in my community often is how I respond and react to those around me. We have a lot of homeless around us, and my family is also engaged with the special needs community – so we have a lot of opportunity to love those that may be excluded from the general population. We try our best to engage with them in a loving way, and show them that God loves them the same way He loves myself, or anyone else in the church.

[Jaylen Hodges]

When a group of people who are committed to Christ begin to actively apply God’s call on their lives, the things of God start to happen. When you look at that objectively, it would be considered culture. The ways people are behaving and the types of things people are doing all in all create culture. It isn’t statements made, it isn’t what the preacher preaches, culture can’t be forced or faked, it culture is simply a sign of what is truly going on in the given groups.
So if we are called to be an apostolic group, then it takes each person in the group (or at the very least, the vast majority) to enact such behaviors in order to build and create such a culture. So it’s important that if we are to be a part of the ACOP, we are also of the mind to mimic the behaviors and culture of the apostles in the book of Acts.