Father's Heart Tahoe's Values, Principles and Practices

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We empower and equip everyone to live fully alive with God through:
Our relationship and intimacy with God, Jesus and Holy Spirit
Our relationship with each other
Our lifestyle
Our encountering, empowering and equipping

Who We Are
​OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, JESUS AND HOLY SPIRIT
Value: God is good
Principle: The true nature of God is good, joyful, kind, and loving. 
Practices:
  • We live hope-filled lives joyfully anticipating the goodness of God (Jeremiah 29: 11).
  • We are determined to be carriers of God’s joyful presence in our thoughts, words, prayers and interactions (Galatians 5: 22-26; Exodus 33: 14; Psalm 16: 11).
  • We believe the fruit of the Spirit is essential in becoming more like Him (Galatians 5:22-23).
 
Value: God is relational
Principle: God provides opportunities for a lifestyle of encounter with Him.
Practices:
  • We encourage partnership with Holy Spirit in programs and staff (John 16: 13-15; Hebrews 6: 4-5).
  • We pair biblical teaching with impactful experiences encouraging consistent and intimate life-shaping encounter with God (John 14: 16-17).
 
Value: God is accessible
Principle: God is always with us in our work, recreation and resting
Practices:
  • We do not differentiate between “ministry” and “daily life” – it is all “life in God” (Ephesians 2: 10; Colossians 3: 23).
  • We remain in God’s presence as He produces results far surpassing anything we could ask for or imagine (Psalms 16: 11).
 
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER
Value: Community is relational
Principle: Relational interaction and sense of shared journey embraces intimacy, vulnerability, and authenticity.  
Practices:
  • We love each other well because we are all beloved of God (1 John 4: 7,11).
  • We attend to His voice and listen well to each other (Romans 12: 1-21).
  • We honor and appreciate diversity within unity (Romans 12: 10; Romans 14: 2-6).
 
Value: Community is honoring
Principle: The treasure in others is affirmed just as God honors them.
Practices:
  • We encourage and honestly express God’s heart toward each other as we grow (Hebrews 10: 24).
  • We support different approaches and embrace people as they are called into their identity in Christ (1 Corinthians 9: 19-23).
 
Value: Community is Joyful
Principle: Community members reflect joy in becoming more like Him.
Practices:
  • We acknowledge our mistakes and espouse the encouragement of God and one another (Hebrews 10: 23-25).
  • We demonstrate joyful vulnerability because of the goodness of God in every situation (Philippians 4: 6).
  • We are focused on the sovereign promises of God in our lives and in the lives of others (2 Peter 1: 4; 2 Corinthians 1: 20).
 
OUR LIFESTYLE
Value: Worship/prayer as a lifestyle
Principle: Worship/prayer create intimacy with God 
Practices:
  • We worship to bless, glorify, lift-up, praise and honor the Lord with joy and thanksgiving – displacing the enemy’s influence (Romans 12: 1-2; Psalms 29; Hebrew 12: 28-29; Psalms 103: 1-6).
  • We pray – intent on listening to God’s heart (John 10: 27).
  • We advocate prayer with a posture of being adored and favored of God (1 John 3: 1-2).
 
Value: Lifestyle of adventure and exploration
Principle: A lifestyle of adventure and exploration involves self-assessment, setting goals, taking risks and entrusting God with the results.
Practices:
  • We position ourselves to achieve the impossible as we partner with God by saying “yes” to His direction (Job 42: 2; Mark 10: 27; Matthew 19: 26; Romans 8: 31).
  • We are determined to live in expectation of God’s blessings to us (Luke 12: 32).
  • We seek ordained adventure knowing that God is with us through every adversity and circumstance (Philippians 4: 6-7).
 
Value: Lifestyle of rest and peace
Principle: A lifestyle of rest and peace in God involves being still for the Lord and waiting patiently for His power.
Practices:
  • We rest with joy - quietly confident and passionately focused on His promises (Matthew 11: 28-30; Galatians 6: 9).
  • We pray with peace understanding challenges as opportunities (Psalms 116: 7).
  • We practice our peace daily and embrace times of stillness and meditation with the Lord (Exodus 14:14; Psalms 1: 1-3; 19: 14; 104: 34).
 
OUR ENCOUNTERING, EMPOWERING AND EQUIPPING
Value: Transformation through encountering
Principle: Both knowledge and connections with God result in transformation of how we think, speak, act and see.
Practices:
  • We humbly enter God’s presence believing we become like Jesus by being with Him. (1 John 2: 6; 1 John 4:17)
  • We keep our eyes on Jesus which allows us to pray with authority, speak with power, bless with purpose. (Hebrews 12: 2)
 
Value: Transformation through empowering
Principle: Healthy people are rooted in love, renewed in mind, and have authority to release what they have received.
Practices:
  • We train in partnership with the ministry modeled by Jesus and embodied by every believer (2 Timothy 2: 21; Luke 2: 29; 1 Peter 2: 21; 1 Corinthians 11: 1).
  • We cooperate with Holy Spirit to mature our new lifestyle (Galatians 5: 16, 25).
 
Value: Transformation through equipping
Principle: The Word provides tools to build the body of Christ, face adversity, stand firm and develop maturity.
Practices:
  • We emphasize development of spiritual fruit and gifts. (John 15: 5; 1 Corinthians 12: 7 -11).
  • We promote unity, applicable understanding and fullness in Christ (Colossians 3: 16; Ephesians 1: 22,23).
 
Value: Transformation through freedom
Principle: Freedom is the God-given power to act, speak or think without fear or restraint
Practices:
  • We create development processes through collaborative multifaceted ideas, honest feedback and impactful implementation consistent with the heart of God (John 8: 32; Proverbs 16: 13).
  • We celebrate our freedom from the tyranny of having to earn our way to God, freedom from sin, guilt, condemnation and shame, freedom from the penalty and power and eventually freedom from the presence of sin (Galatians 5: 1).
  • We utilize the liberty of Jesus to love each other and serve one another (Galatians 5: 13-15
 

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