What We're About

  • At Penticton Alliance Church we are striving to live lives that reflect the person of Jesus. Our conviction is that if we are truly going to have and see impact in this world, then our lives must be centered on Him. With that conviction we strive to live, what we call, Gospel Centered Lives.

     

    Everything we live, do and say centers on this. You will frequently hear us talk about the pillars that we stand on that help us strive towards this life, in a sense it is the DNA of what makes us up. Below is a breakdown of this conviction. This DNA is what helps to form our vision and our mission in being Gospel Centered People.

 

  • Gospel Centered Content

     

    The Gospel is a message that is to be preached or proclaimed (Mark 1:14; Acts 14:21; Rom 1:15; 1 Peter 1:12). It is the story of God’s redemption of his fallen creation.

     

    It is the good news that God has acted in history to conquer evil and reconcile sinners to himself through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus (1 Cor 15:1-12). A gospel-centered church is one where the gospel is proclaimed clearly, consistently, and compellingly (1 Cor 9:16-23).

  • Gospel Centered Community

     

    The gospel is not just a message to be believed, but a power to be experienced (Rom 1:16). The gospel shapes a new community as those who were formerly God’s enemies are reconciled to Him (Rom 5:10) and adopted into his family (Gal 4:4-7).

     

    The church is not a place, but a people – a community that is continually being reformed and renewed by the transforming power of the gospel (Col. 1:6).

  • Gospel Centered Cause

     

    The gospel is a call to action – a declaration that “the kingdom of God is at hand” (Mark 1:15). God is not just interested in the salvation of humans, but in the restoration of all of creation to its original “good” (Gen 1:31; Rom 8:19-22). A gospel-centered church will be active in the work of mercy, justice, and cultural renewal, praying and working against the effects of sin so that God’s will might be done “on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt 6:10).