Vision
At Every Nation Gent we are passionate about Jesus Christ. After His resurrection, Jesus gave the command to His followers to go into all the world and tell everyone about what has happened and to impact people with His life story, where ever they are at. For this reason we believe God has called us to Share God With Hearts & Minds.
Some people need proof and evidence for the existence of God. The simplest place to find this is in the death and resurrection of Jesus. However, there are people who struggle with more emotional heart questions, like for instance the problem of pain and suffering and the existence of evil in this world.
For this reason we are committed to be sharing God with both the mind as well as the heart and emotions. God can be understood as well as experienced. This is actually the way God wants us to know Him … in both our understanding and in our emotions.
Faith is not a blind trust in something that cannot be explained, neither is it a belief in something that is far beyond our emotions and experiences. Jesus is alive and He needs to be explained on an intellectual as well as an experiential level.
Values
The Apostle Paul exhorted Timothy to “guard the good deposit … with the help of the Holy Spirit” (2 Timothy 1:14). Like Timothy, every ministry has a good deposit that must be guarded. In Every Nation, our core values articulate for us the good deposit we as a ministry must guard together, lest they be lost. Whether we’re building a discipleship group, a music group, or planting a new church, these core values are the essential issues and help describe how we build.
Lordship
Because Jesus is “King of kings and Lord of lords,” we believe that whole-hearted submission to God’s will and his Word is the starting point of the Christian faith and the foundation of all spiritual growth.
COLOSSIANS 2:6
Evangelism
Because God’s heart is to reach the lost, we’re passionate about preaching the gospel and doing ministry in a way that engages people outside of the Christian faith. We seek to build churches primarily through evangelism, not transfer; through birth, not adoption.
JOHN 3:16, LUKE 19:10
Discipleship
Because we’re called to make disciples, our primary focus is establishing biblical foundations, equipping believers to minister, and empowering disciples to make disciples—not conducting meetings, facilitating programs, or building buildings.
MATTHEW 28:19,20
Leadership
Because we’re called to establish churches and campus ministries in every nation, we’re committed to a culture of empowering leadership. We’re intentionally multi-generational, and we deliberately create opportunities and platforms to develop the next generation of leaders.
II TIMOTHY 2:2
Family
Because the family is the foundation and validation of ministry, we refuse to sacrifice our marriages and our children on the altars of temporal success. And because we believe God has called us to be a spiritual family, we embrace community, reject the idea of disposable relationships, and choose to walk in love, respect, and unity.
PSALM 127:1,3
Discipleship
“Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20 (NLT)
This great commissioning we received from Jesus is God’s ultimate strategy to build His Kingdom and spread the Gospel throughout all the ethnicities of the world. This includes an intentional “going”, a strategy to “make” and the process to “teach”.
In Every Nation Gent we have a 4 part Discipleship process designed to help facilitate your growth in faith, emotional health, leadership skills and specific ministry calling.
SEED: Foundations of Faith
ROOTS: Inner healing and Gospel restoration
TREE: Biblical Foundations and Leadership development
FRUIT: Ministry development, internship and Theological training
What we believe
Together with our Every Nation family around the world, we have this statement of faith: We believe…
- The Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
- That there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
- That for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
- In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
- In the baptism with the Holy Spirit and in the exercise of spiritual gifts.
- In the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
- In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
We also embrace and adopt the Nicene Creed of AD325 and Chalcedon Creed of AD451.
