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Fellowship! A Brief History of Chase Oaks Church and the Fellowship Bible Church Movement By Barb Alderson Contributing Writer
Chase Oaks Church didn’t just spring to life at the corner of Legacy Dr. and Chase Oaks Blvd. when we moved into our new building in 2007. We have a rich history that goes back to the late ‘60s—a history filled with deep truths, profound joy and plenty of drama!
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ho needs the church anyway? The church isn’t relevant anymore and is no longer meeting our needs. Maybe God’s going to bypass it and do something new!”
A Provocative Statement
Gene Getz stepped away from his lectern to engage the student who had made this provocative statement. He always enjoyed lively debate and encouraged his students to probe and question. However in the fall of 1968 after 15 years of teaching, Gene had never before heard anything quite so startling and bold, especially at Dallas Theological Seminary. Some of the students in the class had recently come to Christ on secular campuses and been deeply influenced by the unrest in the culture of the late ‘60s. It was a tumultuous time— widespread conflict about the war in Vietnam; major upheavals in the area of civil rights; deep anti-institutional feelings about government. They weren’t interested in business as usual for the
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church and were bold enough to challenge both the professor and the content of his class. So Gene had a critical choice to make. Should he continue to teach his class as he had prepared it or respond to these significant questions being asked? One Tuesday after a weekend of intense personal study, Gene came into class and said, “Obviously I haven’t prepared this class to answer your questions so I want you to throw your syllabus into the trash can! We’re going to go back to THE Syllabus on the church: the book of Acts and the New Testament epistles.” So over the course of several semesters, Gene led his students through a comprehensive study of the New Testament, addressing the basic question— why does the church exist? His core conclusion that the church exists to evangelize and edify was based on the Great Commission found in Matthew 28:19-20 and affirmed in the book of Acts and the Epistles. Furthermore, to carry out this task, the Holy Spirit designed freedom in form and methodology to enable the church to carry out the Great Commission at any moment in history and within any given culture of the world.
A Landmark Book
Over the next few years, groundbreaking supracultural principles emerged as Gene continued to interact with his students and other key professors at the seminary. Gene began writing a landmark book about these principles entitled Sharpening the Focus of the Church which developed these key ideas which Gene believed to be biblical absolutes. First, a healthy church must always keep in balance three vital experiences: • Vital learning experiences with the Word of God; • Vital relational experiences with God and one another; and 1
Fellowship!....The History of Chase Oaks Church • Vital witnessing experiences with the non- Christian world. Like sitting on a three-legged stool, every church should maintain this important balance. Second, in order to maintain a proper biblical perspective, ministry leaders must, metaphorically speaking, consistently look through three lenses in order to formulate an adequate philosophy of ministry: • The lens of Scripture; • The lens of history; and • The lens of culture.
“We must depend on the authority of Scripture;” Gene wrote at the time, “for God provides us with certain absolutes. This is where we must get our focus of what the church should be. But we must not close our eyes to contemporary culture. We must understand it, penetrate it, and teach our people to live in it without compromising biblical truth. Furthermore, the lens of history will help us to avoid equating tradition with biblical functions.”
A New Church
Don Kerr, a businessman, and Don Meredith, a ministry leader and student in Gene’s class (not the football player), were particularly impacted by these revolutionary ideas about the church. In September of 1972 they asked Gene to meet with some key Dallas church leaders who were asking some of the same questions that Gene’s students had been asking a couple of years before. • Why is the church not meeting the needs generated by our culture?
To approach the Scriptures without also considering historical and cultural settings leads to myopic and biased conclusions—not a good foundation for an effective ministry! Third, the church must distinguish absolutes from nonabsolutes and practice freedom in form to stay relevant in an ever changing culture. • The biblical absolutes that relate to all aspects of church life and functions should never change. • The non-absolutes are methods, structures and forms that must change to enable us to carry on an effective ongoing ministry in a relevant way in any given culture.
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• How can the church become a truly authentic, caring community? After that meeting, the group challenged Gene and his wife, Elaine, to start a church based on the principles in his book, Sharpening the Focus of the Church. Gene agreed to become the first pastor of the newly formed Fellowship Bible Church—but only temporarily— so he thought!
Did You Know? • Which famous African American pastor did we support for the first three years of his ministry? • Why was Fellowship North started? • Why did the arsonist set the fire at the church offices in 1995? • What is our relationship with Fellowship Church Grapevine?
Fellowship!....The History of Chase Oaks Church So on November 12, 1972, a small band of dedicated men, women and children met as a church for the first time in a former Episcopal church building on Arapaho Road in Richardson.
see me crying.’ ” Reflecting nostalgically, Mary concluded, “It was a very warm and welcoming environment.”
First Hand Impressions
As word began to spread about this fresh new church experience, people started to come in droves and space quickly became a major issue. (In the first sixteen months, the church grew to 825 people—an average of 50 new members a month!) Gene and the elders decided to have multiple two-and-a-half hour church services made up of a teaching hour, coffee break, and a sharing service that would use the same building at different times over the weekend. At the height of this intense growth period, there were four identical services each weekend.
Mary Logue, wife of businessman Don Logue— who would later become the chairman of the elder board—vividly remembers their first Sunday. “We’d never seen anything like it. Gene was sitting on a barstool wearing a leisure suit as he taught the Bible during the first hour. Kids were sitting on the floor on big pillows because they’d run out of seats. “We came in our Sunday best—Don was wearing a suit and I had on my fanciest church dress—and quickly realized that this was a very casual place! Guys were in overalls or jeans; girls in long casual dresses in fashion back then. Even then it was a ‘come-as-you-are place.’ But, Gene stated at the time, ‘We wanted people to feel free to dress more formally if they wished. We didn’t want anyone to feel judged because of externals.’ “After a time of fellowship during a coffee and donut break held in the parking lot—Don called it ‘Halftime,’—we came back for a ‘Sharing Service.’ It was something we had not seen before— someone would share a praise or prayer request and many times their request would be answered right there. As an example, one lady needed a refrigerator and a person stood up saying he had an extra one and her prayer was answered right then. One Sunday a man and his family were there for the first time. During the sharing time, he got up and went outside. His friend asked him later what happened. ‘I didn’t want anyone to
Wildfire
Another thing that was happening during this time was the launching of several branch churches close by. Within the first five years, the original Fellowship Bible Church started five branch works in the Metroplex that were also founded on the principles outlined in Sharpening.1 These churches were launched by leaders of the original Fellowship Bible Church who were willing to take a core group and begin a new work in a neighboring area. One such branch work, Bent Tree Bible Fellowship, was launched in February of 1976 in Carrollton by Floyd and Martha Anne Elliott who are still very actively a part of Chase Oaks Church today. Garland Bible Fellowship; Bethany Bible Fellowship; Bent Tree Bible Fellowship; Richland Bible Fellowship (now Woodcreek Church); and Park Cities Bible Fellowship (now Fellowship Dallas). 1
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Fellowship!....The History of Chase Oaks Church Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship: Gene and the elders were also committed to reaching out cross culturally and challenged a new Dallas Seminary graduate, Tony Evans, to start a mission church in the predominantly African American Oak Cliff area of Dallas. Fellowship supported Tony and his wife, Lois, and paid their full salary for three years as they were getting their new church, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, off the ground. From this church grew Urban Alternative, an inner city ministry that reaches literally around the world. Across the Country: In the midst of this extreme period of growth, pastors were coming from all over the country to learn about what was happening at Fellowship Bible Church. One of the first major churches started outside of the Dallas area was Fellowship Bible Church, Little Rock, in 1977. Today thousands worship each Sunday morning at branch campuses dotted across Central Arkansas.
Misunderstandings
Predictably, not everyone was enthusiastic about what was happening at Fellowship. Some felt threatened by the freedom they observed at this new church, afraid that changing the forms of meeting times and style of worship was compromising the functional absolutes of edification and evangelism. Even Dr. Walvoord, the president of Dallas Seminary at that time, came to Gene with concerns that had been expressed to him by some on campus. But after he read Gene’s book and actually preached at the church, he assured Gene that he had no problem with his biblical interpretations, conclusions or applications. 4
Ultimately, Dr. Walvoord became one of Gene’s most encouraging supporters. Gene quickly understood the need to get out in front of the misunderstandings and wrote a pamphlet called “Questions People Ask about Fellowship Bible Church.” He distributed the pamphlet at the seminary and to other key leaders in Dallas. Over time, many of these people came to appreciate deeply the work that Gene was doing in the area of church renewal and church planting. In fact, some became key leaders in the Fellowship churches.
Key Leadership Lessons
Gene knew that people were longing for authentic community and fellowship with one another. So from the very beginning the church leadership set up minichurches (small groups) of 12 to 18 people who would meet in homes for study, fellowship, prayer and service. Each minichurch was led by an elder and his wife and because it took time for these leaders to be identified, trained, and ordained, sometimes people had to wait up to six months before being placed in a minichurch. This was a source of great concern for the church leadership. To meet the growing need, more and more elders were appointed to lead these small groups. As a result, the Elder Board became incredibly large and unwieldy. At one point there were over 40 elders at the original church! One of the early lessons learned from this period was that requiring all minichurches to be led by elders was unnecessary as other leaders could be trained to lead the small groups effectively. Gene points to this lesson to demonstrate how easy it is to fixate on certain forms that are not the best forms to carry out the ministry. When he and several leaders started Fellowship Bible Church North, they agreed to keep the elder board small
Fellowship!....The History of Chase Oaks Church enough to be able to lead efficiently. At the same time, they intentionally trained others to join them in leading small groups.
Measure of a Man
Shortly after starting the first Fellowship Bible Church, Gene wrote a book entitled The Measure of a Man that outlined 20 dynamic qualities found in 1 Timothy and Titus for measuring maturity levels. The book grew out of a Bible study with a group of men who spent 20 weeks together looking at these characteristics one by one. Gene shared later, “Our study together had a profound effect on all of us. As I helped lead some of the sessions, and as I simply listened and participated in others, my own life was influenced and changed in some profound ways. What was happening in all of our lives motivated me to share this experience with other men.” This scripturally based book became the leadership training manual for all of the elders, pastors and countless lay leaders at the church. Today, The Measure of a Man is still used extensively as a discipling tool and has been translated into numerous languages.
Another New Church
In 1977 Gene decided to turn over the day-to-day leadership of the original church to his associate pastor for two years while he started a new church in Park Cities—a church that later became Fellowship Dallas. After helping secure a pastor for this new church, Gene returned to the home base. He found that new leadership had made significant changes to the principles on which the church had been founded. After several months of dialogue, Gene decided to continue his church planting efforts and started another new church—this time in Plano, nine miles north of the original campus.
The first meeting of this new church was on a hot August evening in 1981 in a North Dallas backyard where several hundred men, women and children braved the Texas heat to worship God together. After several meetings at a rec center in Richardson, they moved to a converted warehouse on the east side of Plano where they met until 1986. That church was called Fellowship Bible Church North. In spite of being hidden away in a warehouse on the east side of Plano, Fellowship North continued to grow by leaps and bounds, primarily by word of mouth. Early during this time, the growth was over 200% per month! Many people in the area, ready for a change from more traditional churches, were longing for the authentic fellowship and strong biblical teaching found at this new work. In the process, many people discovered what it really means to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Again bursting at the seams at the warehouse, Gene led the church through its first major building campaign. Through a generous donation of the Haggards, a founding Plano family, seven acres were secured for the building near the Target store on Parker Road near Central Expressway. Then in the summer of 1986, the church moved from the warehouse into its first permanent facility on Lexington Drive.
Living Out Three Vital Experiences
Gene had brought two important things with him from the original Fellowship Bible Church: • Several godly leaders who would become his elder board and pastoral staff; and 5
Fellowship!....The History of Chase Oaks Church • The principles he had tested in the crucible of day-to-day ministry with people at the original Fellowship Bible Church as well as at the Fellowship of Park Cities church plant. So how did the new church incorporate the three vital experiences that had become the foundation of the Fellowship movement?
Vital Learning Experiences with the Word of God
From the very beginning, Gene and the new elder board believed in teaching the Bible in a relevant, practical and challenging way. Gene’s messages always ended with a section called “Life Response” or “Principles to Live By” that focused on how to apply the Word to daily life. The strong scholarly foundation of his seminary background and his relaxed conversational style made for a very strong pulpit ministry. The elders had also learned the importance of a consistent pastoral voice. Though Gene enjoyed sharing the teaching ministry with his fellow pastors on staff, at Fellowship North, Gene did most of the preaching until he began a succession process years later. People came to rely on the fact that Gene would be in the pulpit most of the time and could count on his strong, consistent presence—teaching through the Bible either topically or one book or Bible character at a time. However, he was always concerned that the people’s loyalty was to Jesus Christ—not just to the primary pastor.
Vital Relational Experiences with God and One Another
The original Fellowship began with minichurches at its very core. Most denominational and Bible churches at the time offered adult Sunday School classes on Sunday morning. Offering small groups in homes for fellowship was a revolutionary idea that was just beginning to catch on. Gene and the elders had learned that minichurches didn’t have to be led by an elder, as other people could be trained to lead them. So the church was free to add as many new minichurches as needed without creating a highly dysfunctional, unwieldy elder board. Initially, the New Testament believers met together in the Temple courts to hear the apostles’ teaching. But they also met in small groups in their homes (see Acts 2:46-47a). It was in these groups that the new believers could become personal and intimate with each other as they ate meals, shared their needs and burdens, prayed and worked together.2 Since the American culture allowed freedom to engage in this kind of worship, meeting in small home groups became a very important “fellowship form” within the Fellowship churches.
Vital Witnessing Experiences with the Unsaved World
The original vision of Fellowship Bible Church North was based on Paul’s commendation to the Thessalonians—“To model—be an example— to people everywhere what God intends His church to be” (see 1 Thessalonians 1:4-10). And while Fellowship North was not considered an “evangelistic” church per se, it had a tremendous corporate outreach in preaching the Gospel in several significant ways.
For an in-depth study of interpersonal relationships, see Gene A. Getz, Building Up One Another, (David C. Cook, 2002). 2
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Fellowship!....The History of Chase Oaks Church Branch Churches: By 1980, the original Fellowship had already planted 12 branch churches in the Dallas area.3 In addition there were already at least 16 churches across the country which marked their beginnings as Fellowship Bible Churches either through the leadership or the concepts and principles incorporated in the original church in Dallas. Since that time, literally hundreds of church pastors and leaders have taken the principles from Gene’s books and the church either to begin a new church or renew a struggling one. Most took “Fellowship Bible Church” as all or part of their name. There are even several “Fellowship Bible Churches” internationally.4 This was the beginning of the Fellowship Bible Church Movement. One of the branch churches closest to home was McKinney Fellowship Bible Church (now renamed Christ Fellowship). Bruce Miller left the staff of Fellowship North to plant a church in the northern part of Collin County. They held their first services in March of 1997 with 250 Fellowship North people as charter members. Careful planning and many prayers proved invaluable as Christ Fellowship has grown steadily since that time.5 Intern Ministry: An intern program was developed in the early ‘80s which was an intentional process of training emerging leaders 3 North Dallas, Park Cities, Irving, Oak Cliff, Lewisville, Duncanville, Lake Highlands, Garland, Bent Tree, Plano Richland, Bethany. 4 For example: Fellowship Bible Church, Capetown, South Africa; Fellowship Bible Church of Myanmar (Burma); Fellowship Bible Church in Warsaw, Poland. 5 Check out www.christfellowshiphome.com.
for pastoral ministry and church planting. To date, this ministry has sent out almost 300 former interns to ministries all over the world. Many are now senior or associate pastors, church planters, missionaries, teachers, or leaders in highly significant ministries.6 Center for Church Renewal: In 1978, Gene started a supporting ministry called the Center for Church Renewal. Through that ministry, Gene has continued to speak all over the world to pastors and other influential leaders about church renewal and leadership development. Out of that ministry grew Renewal Radio, a daily program currently heard throughout the U.S. and internationally on the Moody Radio Network as well as satellite radio. Gene hosts the radio program with the goal of presenting biblical truth in a relevant and practical way based on its foundational verses, Romans 12:1, 2. Gene has also continued to write numerous books such as the best-sellers Measure of a Man; Building Up One Another; Measure of a Healthy Church; and most recently he completed the Life Essentials Study Bible published by Broadman and Holman. He has over 60 books to his credit; many of these book titles have been printed and distributed in nearly 33 different languages. Center for Church Based Training: Gene, Bruce Miller and Jeff Jones were instrumental in founding another organization designed to develop people for ministry through a mentoring, in-ministry and life-on-life approach. Through innovative curriculum and national conferences, the CCBT continues to be a significant force in the church-based training movement.7 6 For more info about our Intern Program, contact Jack Warren, our Executive Pastor. 7 For more info on the Center for Church Based Training, check out www.ccbt.org.
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Fellowship!....The History of Chase Oaks Church As these accomplishments demonstrate, Fellowship North was constantly seeking ways to model what a healthy church could and should look like to the world outside its walls.
Major Catastrophe
Shortly after 1:30 a.m. on July 25, 1995, an arsonist set a devastating fire in the church offices. Fortunately no one was hurt and the office was at a location in an office park which was separate from the church building on Lexington. Fifty staff offices were damaged or destroyed, including most of the pastors’ libraries. In fact, Gene lost over 40 Bibles he had taught from over the years. The arsonist was never caught although the investigators believed they knew who he was. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough evidence to bring him to justice. However, there was enough evidence to conclude that the arsonist was in
Church Renewal and the Center for Church Based Training.
Transitions
In August of 2000 at the age of 68, Gene announced to the church his plans to transition out of his role as senior pastor. After much prayer and planning, Gene and the elders proposed a seven-year transition to Jeff Jones as Gene’s successor. However, three-anda-half years into the succession process, Gene concluded he should retire early. He believed Jeff was fully prepared to assume responsibility as senior pastor. So on the weekend of January 9/11, 2004, Jeff was officially installed as senior pastor. It was an historic occasion for our church and a very effective “passing of the leadership baton.” During the transition Gene had been giving Jeff more and more responsibility in the leadership of the elders and the staff. Here are some of the major accomplishments during this period:
hostile disagreement with the biblical values that were being taught and preached at Fellowship Bible Church North. Consequently, Gene led the congregation in a service that focused on Jesus’ instructions to love and forgive even our enemies. The staff quickly set up their offices on the second floor of the children’s wing at the church using temporary furniture and equipment. Then, in January 1996, the Lord graciously provided a very functional building in Richardson to house the staffs of Fellowship North, the Center for 8
Alignment: One of Jeff ’s significant achievements during the interim was to lead the staff through an alignment process that began to reshape the ministries to better reflect our changing vision, mission and culture. Gene reflects—“At that time we needed to help all of our ministries to be in harmony with our corporate values, and Jeff was definitely the man to lead us through this two-year process. It also enabled him to demonstrate to the staff his capabilities to be their future leader. This he did in a wonderful way.” External Focus: Fellowship North had been externally focused when it came to ministering
Fellowship!....The History of Chase Oaks Church to churches and church leaders on a national and international stage; however—on the local level— the church was more internally focused. Jeff, the elders, and the staff began to formulate strategies to change that. Again, Gene reflects—“Jeff brought a fresh new vision to reach our own community with the Gospel. At this moment in our history we needed that to strengthen the third vital experience—witnessing to the unsaved world around us.” The church had been experimenting with ways to deepen the relational bonds within the minichurches while extending those relationships beyond the walls of the church. Unconditional service to the community seemed to be the way to enhance the church’s reputation as well as follow more closely the scriptural mandates of serving the poor. So a plan was developed to encourage all minichurches—or LifeGroups as they later came to be called—to adopt some form of local community service. The church identified about two dozen community partners who were effectively ministering to the poor and were able to make use of a large number of volunteers on a regular basis. Some of these partners included the local food pantry, an adult medical clinic, schools or nursing homes in underserved neighborhoods, just to name a few. Glen Brechner, a key staff pastor involved at the time, shared recently, “We’ve learned that if you get your LifeGroups involved in community service, it will not only make a difference in the community, it will develop deeper community within the group.”
Relocation: One of the most significant challenges faced during the transition was the problem of overcrowding. We had run out of room—particularly in the children’s ministry areas and in the parking lots—and were no longer able to handle all the new people coming to church. After thorough study, the elders decided it was more practical and economical to relocate rather than to expand the Lexington campus. (The church had also become increasingly hidden by the neighborhoods that had been built up around it, making it difficult to find.) At this time, Jeff noticed a highly visible piece of property at the corner of Legacy Drive and Chase Oaks Blvd. One afternoon after attending a movie at Cinemark with his family, they all walked over to check it out. “With our eyes wide open, we looked around at that great piece of land and asked the Lord to give it to us as a home base from which to reach our community for Christ. I can remember it like it was yesterday,” Jeff said later. Jeff, the elders, and church leaders went on to lead the body through a building campaign called Imagine, based on Ephesians 3:20-21: Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen (emphasis added) Unknown to Jeff, at the time he and his family had walked the property and prayed that God might make it available, Gene and Elaine had walked that same property and prayed the same prayer. This, of course, was years before. In the big picture, this obviously affirms God’s divine guidance throughout the whole succession process.
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RePlant During this process, Jeff wrote about the goal to replant our church—“Our move is not about a 25-year-old church who wants a better building for itself. Our move is about a missional community of believers that is replanting itself in this community to reach thousands more people for Christ and grow them in the faith, to move to a more visible environment from which we can serve our community and see lives transformed.” Name Change: Fellowship Church/Plano, a campus of Ed Young’s Fellowship Church Grapevine, had moved in directly across North Central Freeway from this new location. While the two churches shared the same passion for the Gospel, they were not affiliated in any formal way. The confusion caused by the similarity of the churches’ names continued to grow. With this and other factors in mind, the elders decided to change the name of Fellowship Bible Church North to Chase Oaks Church. This change took effect a few months before the actual move. Mosaic: As the cultural and racial textures of the communities surrounding the church has continued to change, so has the makeup of the congregation. God is bringing people from many diverse backgrounds. For example, since there are many Mainland Chinese who have moved into our area, Chase Oaks Church now has a Mandarin service. Go Boldly: After just two years at the new, highly visible location, the 11:00 a.m. service was running 10
close to capacity. So, in May of 2010, Jeff and the elders launched the Go Boldly Building Campaign to better meet the needs of the people God was bringing to the church. Through creative use of existing space, a plan was developed to enlarge the auditorium on the main campus from 1,200 seats to 2,000 seats in addition to a new lobby and parking lot. Chase Oaks Fairview: One element of Fellowship’s growth strategy from the very beginning had been to start branch churches close to home. Initially branch churches were formed with their own senior pastor. However, with the technology now available, it had become possible to share Jeff ’s sermons with remote campuses via video. Consequently, part of the elders’ master plan had been to be a multi-site church, reaching even more people for Christ through various locations instead of one giant regional campus. In January of 2011, a new campus was launched in Fairview, eight miles north of the main campus. World Outreach: Chase Oaks has continued to invest generously in the people of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, New Zealand, Holland, Ukraine, and Peru through supported church planters and missionaries. Several local ministries are underwritten as well. Pastor Emeritus: Since passing his leadership role at Chase Oaks Church in 2004 to Jeff, Gene has devoted full-time to leading the Center for Church Renewal which operates out of the Chase Oaks office facility. After seven years of intensive research, writing and teaching, Gene completed the new Life Essentials Study Bible which has become the foundation and focus of Gene’s conference and radio ministry.
Fellowship!....The History of Chase Oaks Church Gene comments: “I’m deeply indebted to Chase Oaks Church for this wonderful ongoing ministry relationship. The Center for Church Renewal is a direct outreach ministry. Few senior pastors have the opportunity to work as closely as I do with Jeff as my successor.”
Out of these core values, Jeff and the elders lead us today based on our vision:
A Great Foundation
• Release everyone to “Make a Difference” in their community and world.
Chase Oaks Church has continued to stand on the absolute principles of Scripture laid out by Gene in Sharpening the Focus of the Church, which are reflected in our Core Values8: • Teaching the Word of God • Bridge-Building • Freedom in Form • Generosity of Life • Team-Based Ministry
• Create “Come-as-You-Are” environments for all ages where people can connect to God; • Provide opportunities to “Be Transformed”;
Chase Oaks Church has a very rich history that began in a seminary classroom in the late Sixties. Just as Gene responded to the honest questions being asked then, Jeff and the elders are committed to be responsive to the needs and questions of our diverse and ever-changing culture today. May God continue to bless Chase Oaks with fruitful ministry and to enlarge the impact of the Fellowship Bible Church Movement.
• Biblical Community • Character-Based Leadership • Authenticity
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