Vision

Igniting the next generation to become zealous disciplemakers. 

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What does it mean to be ZEALOUS?

1. Zeal: Strong, deep passion or enthusiasm in embracing, pursuing, defending anything
2. Having a holy zeal is having a fire for God’s glory.
3. The Greek word ζέω zeó: “To boil, to glow, to be fervent” means to figuratively show great zeal. It paints the picture of liquid at full rolling boil—heat that will not be contained. Scripture borrows that everyday image and transfers it to the inner life, portraying a spirit so heated by divine influence that it overflows in word and deed.

• John 2:17 ESV “His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
• Romans 12:11 ESV “Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.”  
• Revelation 3:19 ESV “Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.”
• Titus 2:14 ESV “who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.”

“Though Hebrew uses different vocabulary, the motif is familiar: the altar fire that “must be kept burning” (Leviticus 6:13), the prophet Jeremiah’s word that became “a burning fire shut up in my bones” (Jeremiah 20:9), and the psalmist whose “heart grew hot” while meditating on truth (Psalm 39:3). The New Testament term crowns these hints, declaring that the new-covenant believer is a living altar where the flame is never to die out.”