1. I believe that God is the author of all life.
2. I believe that, as part of God's creation, we were wired for communication at conception.
3. I believe that communication is one of our first natural human responses and was experienced while we were in the womb.
4. I believe in John 3:16: "For God so loved the world (us!) that He gave His one and only Son (Jesus), that whoever believes in him (Jesus) shall not perish but have eternal life. NIV). God sent Christ to die for our sins because God wants to have a relationship with each of us, individually. God puts a priority on loving relationships - individual relationships with Him and our relationships with one another.
5. I believe that Jesus sanctifies relationships because He encourages us to love God, and to love other people. (Matthew 22:37-40).
6. I believe that relationships do not exist without positive, regular and intentional communication. I believe that God wired us for communication because He knows that relationships are impossible without it.
7. I believe that broken or dysfunctional relationships occur because of poor communication at their core, and I believe that strong relationships are built on strong communication principles.
8. I believe that the church is an organization of people, and that the church exists because of strong divine (vertical) and personal (horizontal) relationships
9. I believe a vertical relationship with God, utilizing prayer and worship, is required before the strategic work of the church can be accomplished. Only through this grass-roots movement with the church can God deliver the vision, to leadership, empowering the church in Great Commission ministry.
10. I believe Christ's Great Commission (Matthew 28:19) commands individual Christians, and collectively as the church, to be intentional about evangelism, disciple-making, and teaching about a personal faith in Christ.
11. I believe the Great Commission is accomplished through building relationships with communication at their core.
12. I believe that Satan is the enemy of every Christian and of every church.
13. I believe that Satan's mission is to stagnate the prayer and ministry of Christians and to stagnate the Great Commission work of the church. Accomplishing this stagnation effectively stops evangelism and missions.
13. I believe that Satan accomplishes his mission when he can de-value relationships. Relationships become de-valued when Christians, churches and church leaders de-prioritize vertical (prayer) and horizontal (outreach) communication strategy and communication tactics.
I believe that when churches are spiritually dying it is a result of a poor communication system. Churches that are dying or stalling have only to look at the priority given to communication. This alone will show church leadership the priority of relationships within that church.