FAQ – The Lifepoint Family of Churches

FAQ – The Lifepoint Family of Churches

WHY ARE WE TRANSITIONING TO A FAMILY OF CHURCHES?

As Lifepoint has multiplied churches locally since 2013, our prayer has been that God would use our strategic process to help us reach more people and make more disciples. This has helped us multiply quickly and utilize our resources in the best possible ways.

God has blessed our current structure and processes to grow our church from one location to four locations in a healthy way.  At four locations, we are increasingly finding that our current structure is slowing us from accomplishing our ultimate goal of reaching more people in our community while also planting more churches throughout Ohio. We believe that a transition to a family of churches will allow us to reach more people and plant more churches.

WHAT IS THE LIFEPOINT FAMILY OF CHURCHES?

The Lifepoint family of churches will consist of autonomous churches that partner together for the advancement of the Gospel. Death is the next step for things that don’t reproduce. Just like a healthy family unit launches children that produce new families, our church family wants to do the same. 

Lifepoint Mount Vernon will become the first autonomous church. Lifepoint Delaware and Westerville will have the opportunity to transition into becoming autonomous churches (if they choose to do so) on timelines that work best for continued health and disciple-making.

We hope that more churches will be planted and join the family as we partner in the Gospel together. The markers for becoming part of the family of churches will be theological and missiological. Our theological statement is the Baptist Faith and Message 2000. Our missiological target is a displayed commitment to sacrifice for multiplication. We believe that sending our best (shepherds, leaders, and members) out to plant churches demonstrates Kingdom sacrifice. 

WHAT DO WE CURRENTLY KNOW ABOUT HOW THE FAMILY OF CHURCHES WILL OPERATE?

All four of our locations believe in our vision, our values, and our simple strategy of Lifegroups. We also believe in a commitment to strive for excellence in everything we do. We will keep seeking to live out our vision and values while constantly striving to improve. 

Churches in the Lifepoint family can benefit from the ideas, strategies, and improvements from other churches in the family while having increased freedom to make decisions at the local level. We will seek to create opportunities for gathering our staff teams in this capacity at least twice per year initially and then adjust moving forward.