The people in the Stillwater area need Jesus. There are some healthy churches there, but Stillwater needs more. We’d like to work together with faithful churches to proclaim Christ the King in Stillwater. Our mission and vision is to make disciples who glorify God in all of life for all of Stillwater. In a culture that is rebelling against God’s life-giving truth, we need clarity, courage, and steadfastness.

We would like the lives of church members to be thicker by overlapping in more spheres. In particular, we would like to be thicker by overlapping geographically—where the church gathers, where most of the members live, where most of the members are out and about. We envision being more of a community church than a commuter church. While we are getting started, we expect many people will commute. Yet we hope that over time, church members will move into the area.

Build and fight. When God’s people rebuilt the Jerusalem walls, “each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built” (Nehemiah 4:18). The vision was to rebuild the ruins, and the strategy was to build and fight. Trowel and sword = build and fight. In a similar way, our vision is to rebuild the ruins of what sin has destroyed, and our strategy is to build up God’s household and to fight against sin.
We build and fight by focusing on seven priorities:

1. Teach sound doctrine. Our pastors preach through entire books of the Bible to build up God’s people. The Bible is the final authority for what we believe and how we behave. We prioritize historic Protestant orthodoxy, and we are not embarrassed about anything the Bible teaches.
2. Proclaim the gospel. We love the good news: Jesus lived, died, and rose again for sinners, and God will save you if you turn from your sins and trust Jesus. We proclaim the gospel to ourselves, to one another, and to those who do not believe it.
3. Praise God’s glorious grace. God’s meticulous sovereignty over all things inspires us to worship, trust, and obey him. We want to trust God when suffering comes. We want to be holy and happy followers of King Jesus. We glorify God by enjoying him and his gifts. 
4. Worship God together. Gathering together in person on Sundays to worship God in one service is the central component of all we do. We sing the word, pray the word, read the word, preach the word, and see the word (in baptism and the Lord’s Supper).
5. Pursue holiness. God calls us to be holy. We don’t earn God’s favor by obeying him, but we do please God when we trust and obey him—cheerfully, humbly, wholeheartedly, dependently, prayerfully. We strive to practice the “one another” commands of Scripture with love flowing from pure hearts.
6. Love God’s good design for men, women, and families. We don’t merely affirm God’s good design for men and women in the home, church, and society. We love it! We want our families to be faithful and fruitful. In particular, while the family is deteriorating in our culture, we encourage husbands and fathers to faithfully shepherd their households, and we encourage fathers and mothers to bring up their children with a Christian enculturation. We believe that a thoroughly Christian education is a primary way to disciple children.
7. Be salt and light. We are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. We encourage Christians to act as a preservative in our culture and to influence the culture through hospitality, evangelism, business, arts, literature, politics, education, etc. We want to glorify Christ by letting our light shine before others in Stillwater so that they may see our good works and give glory to our Father who is in heaven. We want to be a light-giving city set on a hill, and we want to multiply by training pastors who plant healthy churches regionally and internationally.