Word and Spirit Dr. Chris Montgomery | Aug. 31, 2025
Purpose: We exist to promote a healthy rootedness in Jesus that is mobilized within the body of Christ at Frazer and multiplied beyond our walls through fearless and intentional compassion. Vision: A church that fulfills the Great Commission by living the Great Commandment. Mission: We desire to see a healthy rootedness in Jesus through the word, prayer and worship that is mobilized within the body of Christ of Frazer through groups, gatherings and serving; and multiplied beyond our walls through fearless and intentional compassion through both personal witness and strategically through local and global mission partners. Values: Passionate Prayer Intentional Presence Radical Generosity Surrendered Service The Spirit is our promised inheritance. (Eph. 1:13-14) And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession – to the praise of his glory. (Jeremiah 31:31-33) “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” Jesus fulfilled the Father’s promise by sending the Holy Spirit. (Acts 1:4) Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before.” (Acts 2:16-18) But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel: 17 “‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; 18 even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.’” (Acts 2:32-33) This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.33 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.