“Without vision people perish,” says the Proverb (Proverbs 29:18). When a school or business creates a vision statement, it expresses both who they are and where they want to go. A church’s vision must arise from who God says we are and where God says we must go.
God’s vision for us involves transformation, “being conformed to the image of his Son” (Romans 8:29)—with everything that entails (from character to family life to vocation). And God calls us into this adventure of transformation together, “though many,” as “one body in Christ” (Romans 12:5).
We might say, then, that God’s vision for TFCA is never less than this: becoming more like the real Jesus, together.
The real Jesus, because we are not conformed to the image of a cultural Jesus or Jesus of our imagination, but to the image of God’s Son: tough and tender, exalted and lowly, holy in God’s eyes though foolish in man’s.
Together, because Jesus is never alone. The real Jesus exists eternally in the fellowship of the Trinity, and builds his kingdom today through his new community, the church.