Statement of Purpose and
Values
The purpose of FaithFreaks.com is
to glorify God by providing
an alternative social network that is safe, clean, friendly, and
Christ-centered. In keeping with this purpose the following values
drive this website:
- We value JESUS.
We believe that in Him all things hold together and therefore in all things He
should have the supremacy.
- We value the
BIBLE. We believe that the Bible is the infallible, inerrant Word of God,
and we use it as our guide in all things.
- We value PRAYER.
We believe that through prayer we can tap into a power greater than ourselves
and therefore this site should move us to prayer.
- We value GRACE.
We believe that it is through God’s grace that we have been saved and therefore
we should have grace with one another. Ungracious responses to prayer
requests, forum posts, bulletins, etc., will not be
tolerated.
- We value the LOCAL CHURCH. We believe that God is a
communal God and that He calls all believers to community. Therefore we
urge all members to find a local church and we desire to provide opportunities
to assist them in that search.
- We value
FELLOWSHIP. We believe that all who are in Christ are brothers and
sisters, and we want this site to be a place where godly relationships are
formed and grow.
- We value FAMILIES. We believe that God has created family
relationships to display His glorious relationship within the Trinity and also
with the Church. Therefore we want this site to be a place where husbands
and wives are urged to love one another and serve one another and where children
are urged to honor their parents and parents to raise their children in the way
they should go.
- We value
HOLINESS. We believe that without holiness, no one will see the
Lord. We believe that the offer of eternal life is an offer to walk in
holiness. Therefore we will not tolerate the acts of the sinful nature –
“sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred,
discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and
envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like” (Gal 5:19-21, NIV). Because of
our desire to spur one another on to holiness, we will not tolerate images or
language that will arouse the sinful nature.
- We value
DISCIPLESHIP. We believe that God wants all of his children to grow to
maturity in the faith and in discipleship, and for this reason we want to
provide opportunities for people to grow in their relationship with
Christ.
- We value
MINISTRY. We believe that God has called us to serve one another, and
therefore we want this site to be a place where people are pointed toward
serving in ministry and equipped for the works of
ministry.
- We value
EVANGELISM. We believe that salvation is found in no one but Jesus, and
therefore we want this site to urge people to preach the gospel to the
lost.
- We value HEAVEN.
We believe that the Christian life calls us to lose this life in order to gain
the next, and therefore we want to be one of God’s vessels in turning people
against the flow of this culture, toward the self-denial that brings great gain
in the next life. We do not want this site to be a place for pursuit of
worldly pleasures but rather a place for the pursuit of the pleasure of eternal
fellowship with the Living God.
“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.” (Eph 3:20-21,
NIV)
More About Our Site
FaithFreaks.com is the premier Christian social
network.
FaithFreaks is founded on the principles of the Bible and the belief in Jesus
Christ.
We are a ministry that will help our users build upon their faith and beliefs
by providing resources to help them focus and grow in their Christian walk.
Believers in Jesus Christ are simply no longer of the world; in the world,
but not of it (John 17:14-15). What believers *should* do is to be set apart
from the world. This is the meaning of being holy and living a holy, righteous
life--to be set apart.
We are not to engage in the sinful activities the world promotes, nor are we
to retain the insipid, corrupt mind that the world creates. Rather, we are to
conform ourselves, and our minds, to that of Jesus Christ (Romans 12:1-2).
Our site is user friendly and free from obscene pictures and language. These
are filtered to prevent such material from being presented to our
users.
Our network of filters and monitors are constantly overseeing the content on
the site and deleting offensive materials.
We value the safety of our users all profiles under 18 are automatically
private and accounts of those 13 and under have extra precautions to keep the
younger users safe.
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual
immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper
for God's holy people. 4Nor should there
be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather
thanksgiving. 5For of this you can be
sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Ephesians 5:3-5