CLC Ethos Statement

This organisation believes that our ethos emerges from a desire and motivation to express Christ’s love to those whom we serve outside the organisation, and to reflect this love internally in our relationships with one another.

The motivation for our mission comes from Christ’s love compelling believers (2 Cor 5v14) and is therefore rooted in our faith in Christ. This faith produces a distinctive heart attitude of love, which expresses and is characterised by the following values and behaviours:

Individual Centeredness  
- seeing the image of God in each individual

Inclusivity                         
-  facilitating a sense of belonging to the corporate whole

International                    
-  while developing our ministry in the UK we also seek to release funds and personnel to support CLC's international ministries

Interdependence              
- understanding the role of self and others in the organisation as a whole

Integrity                            
- the organisation and the individual being true to their values

A heart attitude accepting of, and active commitment to, these values and behaviours is intrinsically linked to the implementation and fulfilment of our mission, ‘To give glory to God by making Christian literature available to all nations, so that people may come to faith and maturity in the Lord Jesus Christ’ and therefore the attitude and motivation of our members and the way our mission is achieved is as important as the mission itself (Jn 13:34, Matt 22:36-40, 1 Cor 13:1-2).

As this attitude and motivation come only from a relationship with Christ, it becomes a genuine occupational requirement that all of our members and volunteers are committed Christians so that all of us can participate in our ongoing prayer ministry. It is also essential that these attitudes and behaviours continue, and so we expect our members to act in good faith and with loyalty to that relational ethos and to evangelical Christian standards of behaviour. Failure to do so may result in members having to withdraw their membership.

Notwithstanding this, the organisation is committed to diversity amongst its members and volunteers and will not discriminate on other grounds that are unrelated to our ethos. We believe that defining our occupational requirements does not restrict but actually enhances our commitment to diversity.

 

• CLC International UK
• 291 Abbeydale Road
• SHEFFIELD S7 1FJ
• Reg Charity 1015793 & SCO37939

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