Vision:
The gathering is a ministry of uptown church that seeks to encourage authentic community, experience life found in Christ, and share Christ with Charlotte’s growing population of young adults.
Goals:
1. Outreach - We accept and engage young adults where they are with grace and truth, as a loving witness to Christ.
Every person is made in the image of God and thus has eternal value. But due to the reality of our universal brokenness, he or she needs the restoration found only in the Gospel. The Gospel has the power to transform each of us into what God intends us to become.
2. Inreach - We are called to authentic, covenant relationships with both Jesus Christ and those who are part of Uptown Church 's transforming community .
A relationship with God through Christ is the basis for wholeness in all other relationships. Relationships with one another that provide community and accountability are meant to build the church and each other.
3. Bible Teaching/Discipleship - Building people is more important than building the program.
We are dedicated to developing every believer as a minister led by the Holy Spirit to follow Jesus. Many of these followers of Jesus will be developed as servant-leaders who will develop others.
Scripture is God's inerrant Word, relevant for all of life.
God's Word establishes the principles for all we do. God's Word reveals the nature of the covenants He establishes with humanity. God's Word is the source of all we teach and affirm.
Values:
A Synopsis of the Beliefs of the Presbyterian Church in America
1. The Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
2. There is one God, eternal and self-existing in three persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) who are to be equally loved, honored, and adored.
3. All mankind participated in Adam's fall from his original sinless state and is thus lost in sin and totally helpless.
4. The Sovereign God, for no other reason than His own unfathomable love and mercy, has chosen lost sinners from every nation to be redeemed by the quickening power of the Holy Spirit and through the atoning death and resurrection of His son, Jesus Christ.
5. Those sinners whom the Spirit quickens, come to believe in Christ as Savior by the Word of God, are born again, become sons of God, and will persevere to the end.
6. Justification is by faith and through it the undeserving sinner is clothed with the righteousness of Christ.
7. The goal of God's salvation in the life of the Christian is holiness, good works, and service for the glory of God.
8. At death the Christian's soul passes immediately into the presence of God and the unbeliever's soul is eternally separated from God unto condemnation.
9. Baptism is a sign of God's covenant and is properly administered to children of believers in their infancy as well as to those who come as adults to trust in Christ.
10. Jesus Christ will return to earth, visibly and bodily, at a time when He is not expected, to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
11. The Gospel of God's salvation in Jesus Christ must be published to all the world as a witness before Jesus Christ returns.
