God-Centredness
“Not to us Lord, not to us but to Your name be the Glory”
“For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever.”
Our first and highest value of the Amplify Community is God-Centredness.This value goes beyond merely saying a prayer at the start and end of all our activities or saying "Praise the Lord!" as often as possible. God-centredness is people going through nothing sort of a Copernicus revolution in their thinking and way of life.
Fostering a God-Centred Worldview is a mindset that starts with the assumption that God is the centre of reality. God is the basic given and absolute reality. He was there before we were in existence – or before anything was in existence. From Him came everything and everything is sustained by Him for His goals and purposes.
The God-centred mindset moves out of this centre and interprets the world, with God and his rights as Creator and His goals as the measure of all things.
This is opposed to a Man-centred worldview which starts with man as the given reality of the universe - his rights, his needs, his expectations. Therefore a Man-centred worldview moves out from this centre and interprets the world, with man’s rights, needs and goals as the measure of all things.
To foster a God-Centred worldview challenges us to live our entire lives to serve the purposes of God. God doesn’t exist to make much of us, we exist to make much of God. It is in glorifying God that we find our soul’s fulfillment. It is in living for Him that we truly live.
We believe authentic Christianity begins with this ‘renewal of the mind’ – moving incrementally from a Man-centred worldview to a God-centred one. We want all our activities to be centered around communicating that God is worthy to be treasured, pursued and given all of our lives to serve. This makes Worship the central and highest activity we can ever undertake as a community.
Another reason why this value is important is because it guards against the exaltation of Self. When we build a culture that esteems God more than man, we guard against ministry politics, selfish ambitions and self-promotion. We focus on God getting the glory and not us. Its not about getting the name of Amplify ‘out there’. Its about exalting Jesus, for His Name and His Renown in the world.
It is not about us and its all about Him.
Leo
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