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A deeper look at what shapes us.

Explore Waypoint Church’s beliefs, mission, values, ministries, and leadership. These articles share the thinking behind our life together in Colorado Springs—and offer a place to start if you’re asking questions about faith.

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Leadership • Beliefs & distinctives • Ministries • Values • Vision & mission

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On Church Leadership

How we lead, shepherd, and care for our church.

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Women’s Care Team
Women’s Care Team

Caring for the Women of Waypoint Church

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Small Group Leaders
Small Group Leaders

The training and appointing of leaders for the 3 types of small groups at Waypoint.

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The Primary Leaders - Church Elders
The Primary Leaders - Church Elders

What is the role of Elder at the church and how does a church go about electing Elders?

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Overall: Church Roles and Leadership
Overall: Church Roles and Leadership

Across denominations and throughout history, churches have had a variety of roles and positions. These range from priests, nuns, pastors, deacons, elders, bishops, ministers, evangelists, staff members and administrators. It can be quite confusing. In this article, I'd like to simplify these titles and positions by focusing on the leadership roles described in the New Testament.

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Biblical Foundations for the Role of Deacon
Biblical Foundations for the Role of Deacon

Exploring the Old and New Testament to better understand the role of Deacon at the local church.

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Church Membership
Church Membership

What is membership? And is it biblical?

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Our Beliefs & Distinctives

What we believe and why we worship the way we do.

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How do we choose songs at Waypoint? 
How do we choose songs at Waypoint? 

Thinking through worship music selection

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1,000 Block Parties
1,000 Block Parties

Addressing the Quiet Epidemic of Loneliness

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Does Baptism Need to be by Immersion?
Does Baptism Need to be by Immersion?

Why do Presbyterian churches often sprinkle and pour water during baptism? Take a look at the different ways baptism is pictured in the scriptures.

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What is a Reformed Presbyterian Church?
What is a Reformed Presbyterian Church?

In order for that answer to make sense, you have to know what the words reformed, presbyterian, and church mean!

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Passing Through the Waters of Baptism into Church Community
Passing Through the Waters of Baptism into Church Community

What do we believe about baptism? How is Baptism in the New Testament connected to the Old Testament?

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Are we evangelical?
Are we evangelical?

Is Waypoint Church an “Evangelical” Church?

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Why Plant Churches?
Why Plant Churches?

Churches are God’s main strategy to accomplish his mission of bringing restoration to his creation.

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Getting Connected at Waypoint
Getting Connected at Waypoint

We want to be a community that has a constant posture of being “open” to newcomers. Instead of making it hard to connect, we want to develop easy on-ramps into our community

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Our Ministries

The ways we belong, grow, and serve together.

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Faith and Work
Faith and Work

We were made by God to work! We create and provide and order and rule over God’s creation in our work. We reveal who God is in our work. Work is hard because of the fall not because of something inherently wrong with work itself. We are now working to help push back sin and reveal God’s kingdom—a kingdom free from frustrated work.

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What’s My Parish?
What’s My Parish?

God designed us to be loved by him and loved by others. If you are moving toward God and toward others, you are headed toward integration and renewal. But to turn from him toward isolation will lead to disintegration and decay. We were designed to be known and loved.

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Serve the City: Flourishing Groups
Serve the City: Flourishing Groups

Waypoint’s Flourishing Groups exist to organize and initiate works of restoration in our community.

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Serve the church: Support Teams
Serve the church: Support Teams

Paul makes it clear in Ephesians 4 that we are all to be equipped to do the ministry of the church. Support teams are how we all work together to make Sunday Worship happen.

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Discipleship Cohorts
Discipleship Cohorts

Each generation is called to figure out how best to do Discipleship, Fellowship, and Outreach in their cultural context.

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Our Values

Six commitments shaping the people we hope to become.

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Intro: Waypoint’s Values
Intro: Waypoint’s Values

How to name the broken parts of our area, and name and describe the ways the gospel will renew that brokenness.

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Rest In Christ
Rest In Christ

Rest in our identity as God’s beloved children, united in Christ.

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Eliminate Hurry
Eliminate Hurry

Seek to slow down to make space in our lives to love God and others.

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Open and Honest
Open and Honest

Be open and honest about our brokenness, dependent on God for change.

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Engage With Love
Engage With Love

Engage our neighbors with gentleness and humility of heart.

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Cultivate Community
Cultivate Community

Cultivate communities where we encourage one another to become more like Christ.

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Bring Renewal
Bring Renewal

Embrace our calling to bring renewal to the places where God has us.

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Our Vision & Mission

Why Waypoint exists and where we believe God is sending us.

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Our Vision: Gospel Reorientation to the Suburbs
Our Vision: Gospel Reorientation to the Suburbs

The suburban expressions of “the good life” is actually full of brokenness from the fall…But the gospel offers a better way—

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Our Mission: Be an Embassy
Our Mission: Be an Embassy

We were created to be on this mission with God. It’s not just one department, the missions department, or one of many… No, “missions” is the point of God’s creation of his church!

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What’s in a name?
What’s in a name?

Waypoint - a reference point that serves as an intermediate stop to reorient along a journey.

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Renewed for Mission: Becoming a “so that” Church
Renewed for Mission: Becoming a “so that” Church

It’s easy to fall into a mindset where church ministries are seen as primarily serving our personal needs. While the church is certainly a place where we find renewal, comfort, and growth, this is not the ultimate purpose of its existence. The ministries of the church are meant to equip us so that we can live as ambassadors of Christ in the world (2 Corinthians 5:18-20).

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