We believe that God the Father is spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. We believe that God eternally exists in three persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - and that these three are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections, and worthy of precisely the same homage, confidence, and obedience.
We also believe that all the Scriptures were designed for practical instruction. We believe that all the Scriptures center around the Lord Jesus in His person and work in His first and second coming, and that no portion, even the Old Testament, is properly read or understood until it leads to Him. We believe the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to be verbally inspired and completely inerrant in the original manuscripts and to be the supreme and final authority for what we believe and how we live. To encourage one another and work together as described in 1 Corinthians 3:8-9, "The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
Ministry is not an issue of duty, but rather, gratefully using gifts God gives as it states in Ephesians 4:11-12, "It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up. so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." (NIV) To build up one another as defined in Ephesians 4:11-16, ". We have an answer for that in our FAQ.To fulfill the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19-20, making "disciples of all nations and baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." (NIV) Why do we strongly believe that policies should be on websites? Great question. Sometimes this helps people find churches that are aligned with their values - that’s great, but that is not our primary goal. Why do we do this? Our goal is to motivate churches to become clear on their websites because that is presently the most visible advertisement to the public.
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We always respond by saying, “That’s good to know please update your website so that this information is publicly available and also consider becoming Verified Clear we’d love to update your score.” Or, “Please provide us with online evidence of what you’re talking about on the church or denomination website, and we’d love to update the score.” We sometimes get emails from pastors and congregants telling us that the score we’ve given to a church does not accurately reflect what happens in their church. That is why we confine our scope purely to any online evidence available on a church’s website, on its denomination’s or network’s website, and any pastor statements. We cannot score based on the “reality of what happens in their congregations,” but rather based on their online presence.
It is a “communication” score above anything else. Our goal is to score churches for how clearly they communicate their actively enforced policies. If that was so, then we would certainly enable people to post “personal reviews” of their experiences in churches, much in the way that Yelp does. Although this is a common byproduct of our public database, it is actually not our primary goal. Some people assume that our database exists to point LGBT people to LGBT-affirming churches, for instance, or to warn them about non-affirming churches.
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