St Paul’s is one church with multiple congregations of diverse people.
We are a church of many ages, peoples, languages and life experiences. In spite of the diversity there is only one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one hope, one baptism, one God and Father of all and so we share a one passion: to know Jesus, treasure Jesus and represent Jesus for God’s glory and the joy of all people.
Our Mission
...to know Jesus, treasure Jesus and represent Jesus for God’s Glory and the joy of all people. Therefore, we are united in our desperation to see the world around us encounter Jesus, and in our desire to represent the diversity of Chatswood.
Our Core Values
1/7 CORE VALUES
Christ Centred Bible Saturation
As a church we are committed to:
- individual and corporate Bible study;
- authoritative biblical teaching and preaching over reason, experience and tradition;
- the ‘God-centredness’ of all biblical truth;
- passing on to the next generation a biblically informed love for God;
- every believer taking responsibility to be spiritually and physically prepared to listen and obey as God’s Word is taught;
- every believer having a vital personal Bible study time where the Bible is read, meditated on, memorised, prayed over and obeyed.
2/7 CORE VALUES
Devotion to Prayer
As a church we are committed to:
- consistently bringing all things to God in prayer;
- intentionally building prayer into the centre of our life together;
- developing a culture of natural and unstructured prayerfulness when interacting with each other;
- encouraging and equipping for prayer on a personal and family level;
- incorporating prayer into every church activity.
3/7 CORE VALUES
Humble Authenticity
As a church we are committed to:
- serving others and considering them more important than ourselves;
- speaking to one another honestly, and in private, when a problem arises;
- honouring each other by not engaging in gossip, malicious or slanderous talk;
- being careful how we interpret one another;
- keeping confidences unless there is a danger of harm, or its a matter of protecting a child;
- freeing our relationships of manipulation and abuse of power;
- asking clarifying questions before making judgements in disagreements;
- being slow to take offence;
- being quick to confess error and sin, pursue reconciliation, and work towards change when we have offended;
- not tolerating contention;
- being rigorously honest;
- being financially accountable;
- being above reproach in all our dealings;
- communicating in large and small group settings with honesty, authenticity and transparency;
- being vulnerable with our imperfections that encourages candour, not concealment.
4/7 CORE VALUES
Servant Leadership
As a church we are committed to:
- godly character, over skills and gifts, when appointing leaders;
- our leadership adhering to biblical codes of Christian life and teaching;
- innovation, creativity, risk taking, and the freedom to fail;
- continuous development of leadership;
- appropriate submission to biblical leadership;
- vocational ministers equipping members for ministry through teaching and preaching the Bible, through modelling and through training;
- every leader having an active commitment to the Mission, Vision and Core Values of St Paul’s.
5/7 CORE VALUES
Radical Generosity
As a church we are committed to:
- sacrificial, enthusiastic, joyful and regular giving in response the gospel of grace;
- supporting those who teach the Word of God;
- the responsibility of all Christians to pay what they owe;
- the responsibility of all Christians to provide faithfully for their family;
- appropriate submission to biblical leadership;
- being generous to the poor and needy;
- supporting the wider work of the advancement of the gospel in the world.
6/7 CORE VALUES
Treasuring Jesus Together
As a church we are committed to:
- our corporate life, ministries, and church policies to give explicit evidence that we treasure Jesus Christ above everything;
- making corporate worship a weekly priority;
- meeting together in small groups for more intimate opportunities for nurture and service;
- treasuring Jesus together by engaging to watch over one another in brotherly love;
- remembering one another in prayer;
- aiding one another in sickness and distress;
- cultivating Christian sympathy and joy;
- being courteous in speech;
- being slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation and mindful of the command of our Savior to secure it without delay;
- welcoming people from every background;
- openness towards new people and the avoidance of cliquishness;
- purging our lives of the sin that causes division;
- pursuing increasingly visible, authentic, practical ways of loving each other;
- being personally involved in one on-going ministry toward building up the St Paul’s family according to one’s gifts.
7/7 CORE VALUES
Local & Global Impact
As a church we are committed to:
- engaging in continuous evangelism through our natural web of relationships and empowering members to be salt and light at all levels of society;
- participating in completing the global task of reaching unreached peoples;
- supporting in prayer, personnel and funding for our link missionaries and others the Lord leads us to adopt;
- mentoring future vocational ministers and missionaries;
- the whole church pursuing a wartime mindset relating to the holocaust of perishing people and the use of our resources;
- engaging in bold, balanced, winsome confrontation of our culture's clearly unbiblical elements;
- sharing our pastoral staff with the wider Church through their writing, training and speaking.
Service Times
Sundays
Prayer Requests
What's on?
Events, Sermon Series, Courses and more. There’s plenty happening at St Paul’s.
Latest Talks
Takeshi Shibuya
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Steve Jeffrey
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