What to Expect
What to Expect
Expect inspiring live worship and His Presence, along with sound biblical teachings with practial life application. We are a multi-cultural, multi-generational, prophetic and friendly church for families and individuals seeking to become part of a faith-filled community, modeled after the New Testament. All are welcome!
The senior leader of The Bridge is Angie Dorman. She, and the other 5-fold ministry gifts on her team, are focused on making disciples who are fully equipped to do His works in the power of His Spirit.
We provide KIDS Church and Nursery ministry during our Sunday 10am Service.
Our Vision, Mission & Values
Our Vision- is to equip people for God's purposes.
Our Mission- is to equip every person to fulfill God's purposes for their life through prayer, discipleship and mentoring,
Core Values - We Value a New Testament Church experience; Meaningful relationship with God and His people;
WE VALUE:
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The Word of God - Truth;
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Holy Spirit’s Leadership;
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The Presence of Jesus
and the will of the Father;
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Prayer;
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Equipping people for God’s purposes through discipleship;
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Life, Freedom, Honor; and
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Enjoying the Journey TOGETHER!
We Believe:
We believe Scripture MUST Govern the gifts of God in the lives and ministries of every believer;
We believe the 7 Motivational Gifts are innate & essential to each person’s calling;
We believe all 9 Manifestation Gifts of Holy Spirit are for today;
Heavenly Language (tongues) is for today;
Healing is for today;
We believe the Bible is the unadulterated Word of God, inspired by Holy Spirit, and is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness;
We believe God still communicates through Dreams & Visions, prophetic utterance, prophetic teaching & songs;
We believe mature, godly Leadership is essential for a biblical Church experience;
We believe that is is biblical for both men and women to be in ministry.
Church Culture
A biblical, Spirit-inspired (prophetic) church culture is important to us. Seeking the heart of the Father ithrough prayer is of utmost importance to us.
Doing things according to His will AND HIS WAYS, is essential to furthering God's Kingdom and therefore, something we emphasize regularly.
Having all 5 MInistry gifts of Ephesians 4 is important to us. Here's what we believe about the 5 Ministry gifts.
The 5-fold Ministry Gifts
We believe both men and women can and should be in the 5-fold ministries.
Ephesians 4:8 tells us that when Jesus ascended, He gave gifts to “mankind”. Some translations say, “men”.
But when Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write the scripture down, He inspired him to write the Greek word, “anthropos”, which is the word meaning, “mankind”.
Holy Spirit is very specific! When He inspired writers to write in a gender-specific way, He also was very specific. He would use the Greek word, “aner”, for male; and the Greek words, “gune”, or “gyne”, for female.
Jesus went on in Ephesians 4:11 to identify what those gifts were:
Ephesians 4:11,12
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ…
Apostles – Govern – they govern doctrine and kingdom business - having varying metrons, some have influence locally, nationally and/or worldwide, and can have very specific influence including, strengthening churches, developing leaders, etc, and may or may not plant or even oversee a church(es).
*We believe there were only 12 Apostles of the Lamb; and Apostles were part of the 5 gifts Jesus gave at His Ascension.
*We also believe there will be no new scriptures.
Prophets – Guide – they are the EYES of Kingdom business for a place or territory, seeing/perceiving what God is doing presently and in the future, to help provide direction.
Evangelists – Gather and Proclaim – they are called to gather people together and proclaim the message of the cross.
Pastors – Guard – they guard, lead and care for the flock of God.
Teachers Ground – they ground the flock of God in sound biblical doctrine, with emphasis on practical application.
We believe it's God's plan for His Church to function in all 5 Ministry Gifts TODAY.
We understand the mandate of Ephesians 4 involves a SHARED RESPONSIBILITY of those among us whom are mature, committed to unity, and that demonstrate 5-fold function, to SHARE THE RESPONSIBILITY of the EPA in the Local Church, to Equip, Train with Sound Doctrine and Activate the gifts of the Son in the ministry and to make disciples.
We believe it is not the sole or exclusive responsibility of any Senior Leader to do the spiritual EPA exclusively. But rather, that these are shared responsibilities of all the 5 Ministry gifts, according to scripture.