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​Pilare van Kultuur


1. Mobiliserende Dissipelskap
  • Dissipelskap is die primêre maatstaf van sukses in alle aktiwiteite binne Lewende Woord.
  • Alles wat ons doen is strategies belyn met ons Mandaat en Dissipelskapsproses (Wen, Vestig, Toerus en Stuur). 
  • Jou eerste en belangrikste dissipelgroep is jou eie familie. 
  • Ons doelwit in dissipelskap is nie net om mekaar te dissipel om geestelike volwassenheid te bereik nie, maar om dissipelmakers op te rig.
  • ‘Missionale kerkwees’ gaan daaroor om na jou geestelike familie, lokale kerk, stad, provinsie, land en die wêreld uit te reik. 
  • Ons het 'n duidelike mandaat en profetiese woorde om gemeentes in elke stad en dorp in Suid-Afrika te plant.

2. Opofferende Diensbaarheid
  • Ons moet eers 'n gemeenskap dien voordat ons die reg verkry om daardie gemeenskap te bedien.
  • Paulus skryf aan die Kerk van Rome in Romeine 15:2: Ons dink nie net aan onsself nie, maar ons dink aan wat vir ander goed is om hulle in die geloof op te bou.
  • Soos wat ons ons vleeslike begeertes neerlê en mekaar dien, dien en verheerlik ons die Here.

3. Nederigheid 
  • Ons weerspieël 'n gesindheid van nederigheid en diensbaarheid in alles wat ons doen.
  • Ons praat altyd 'op' na mense, en nooit 'neer' op mense nie. Ons behandel altyd mense met liefde en respek. 
  • Ons verwys na funksies, nie titels nie. In Lewende Woord is daar nie ruimte vir hoogmoed, eiebelang of status nie. Volgens 1 Petrus 5:5 verwag ons van alle personeel, vrywilligers, en veral ons leiers, om die kudde van die Here te dien.

4.  Christus-gesentreerde Aanbidding
  • Ons glo in 'n leefwyse van aanbidding, naamlik om Christus te vereer deur nederigheid en diensbaarheid.
  • Die aanbiddingsliedere wat ons sing, is daarop gerig om God – en nie mense nie – te verheerlik.

5.  Versoenende Intersessie
  • Net soos wat Jesus aan die regterhand van God die ​Vader (en die Heilige Gees hier op aarde) vir ons intree, so tree ons vir mekaar in.
  • Dit is ons opregte gebed dat ons die genade wat Jesus aan ons bewys het, teenoor mekaar sal bewys, en dat ons mense met God sal versoen. 

6. Wedersydse ​​Eerbetoning
  • ​Ons ag elke persoon as in die beeld van God geskape ​te wees. Ons glo daarom dat elkeen met liefde en respek behandel behoort te word, ongeag van hul ​geslag​ en ​kultur​el​e​ ​of so​siale status.
  • ​Ons waak teen persepsies en persoonlike opinies van ander.
  • ​Ons praat nie op 'n negatiewe of neerhalende wyse van ander mense nie.
  • ​Ons ​kommunikeer ons verwagtinge teenoor ander en stel duidelike grense​.

7.  ​Kulturele ​Verantwoordbaarheid
  • Ons verbind onsself getrou tot Lewende Woord se Visie, Missie en  ‘Pilare van Kultuur’. 
  • Ons is teenoor ons gemeente verantwoordelik, maar ons is nie vir ons gemeente verantwoordelik nie. Ons ontsê dus nie ander die geleentheid om vir hulself eienaarskap en verantwoordelikheid te aanvaar nie. 
  • Ons spandeer die Here se geld met groter omsigtigheid, verantwoordbaarheid en deursigtigheid as wat ons ooit ons eie geld sal spandeer.
  • Ons wy onsself tot die geestelike dissiplines van gebed, vas, Bybel lees en meditasie, en ons hou mekaar vir hierdie dissiplines verantwoordbaar. 
  • Ons sal altyd in eerlikheid, opregheid en integriteit met betrekking tot ons verhoudings, finansies, tyd, hulpbronne en verantwoordelikhede wandel.

8.  Geestelike Eenheid
  • Ons wy ons voortdurend daaraan toe om wedersydse Goddelike eenheid te bevorder en enigiets wat onenigheid en disharmonie kan veroorsaak, aktief te weerstaan.
  • Verhoudings geniet altyd prioriteit – die ‘saak’ is nooit belangriker as die persoon of die verhouding nie.
  • Ons sal ten alle tye God se gesindheid van liefde en genade teenoor alle mense tentoonstel.

9. Bedieningsbemagtiging
  • In ons bediening is ons gedurig bewus van die persoon se gees, siel en liggaam, en ons handhaaf ‘n balans ten op sigte daarvan.
  • Die beste manier om jou eie kapasiteit te vergroot, is om ander mense wat ‘n soortgelyke roeping het, te ontwikkel. Om in die visie wat die Here jou gegee het, vooruitgang te maak, is dit nodig om jouself deur middel van strategiese opvolgbeplanning te herproduseer.
  • Opvolgbeplanning gaan nie daaroor om iemand te kry wat jou in jóú persoonlike groei kan bystaan nie, maar om elke persoon binne sy/haar spesifieke en unieke roeping te ontwikkel.

10. Bybelse Waarheid
  • Ons is onvermoeid in ons toewyding om Bybelse waarheid te soek en daarvolgens te lewe.
  • Ons laat nie populêre kultuur of die druk van die samelewing toe om ons interpretasie van die Woord te dikteer nie.
  • Ons is daartoe verbind om gedurig aan te hou te leer en ons kennis en begrip van die Woord van God te ontwikkel.

11. Heilige Gees-Geïnspireer
  • Ons moedig alle familielede aan om in die gawes van die Gees te funksioneer, soos beskryf in 1 Korintiërs 12:8-10.
  • Ons skep geleentheid in ons dienste vir wonderwerke en manifestasies van die Heilige Gees.
  • Ons handhaaf gedurig ‘n balans tussen Woord en Gees. “Just the Word, and you dry up, just the Spirit and you blow up. A balance of the Word and the Spirit, and you grow up.”

12.  Koninkryksuitnemendheid
  • Ons beskou uitnemendheid (excellence) as deel van ons aanbidding. Dit is ons bydrae tot die geestelike familie waarin ons dien.
  • Ons glo dat uitnemendheid God verheerlik en mense inspireer, en dat dit mense in die Koninkryk van God kan intrek.
  • Ons streef daarna om alle aspekte van bediening gedurig te verbeter en te ontwikkel, en om meer effetiewe maniere te vind en te verfyn om dissipelmakers op te rig.

Pillars of Culture


1. Mobilising Discipleship 
  • Discipleship is the primary measure of success in all activities in Living Word.
  • Everything we do is strategically aligned with our Mandate and Discipleship Process of Winning, Establishing, Equipping and Sending.
  • We believe that you cannot export what you cannot reproduce at home. Your biggest and most important discipleship group is your own family. 
  • Our aim in discipleship is not only to disciple one another so that we can grow in spiritual maturity, but to raise up disciple makers.
  • Missionality is about reaching out to your: spiritual family, local church, city, province, country and the world. 
  • We have a clear mandate and prophetic words for planting congregations in every city and town in South Africa.

2. Sacrificial Servanthood
  • We first serve a community before we earn the right to minister to that community.
  • As Paul writes to the Church of Rome in Romans 15: We do not live to please ourselves, but we live to do what is right for others and to bring them into spiritual maturity.
  • As we lay down the desires of our flesh and serve each other, we honour God.

3. Christ-like Humility
  • We shall display an attitude of humility and servanthood in all that we do.
  • We always speak ‘up’ to people, never ‘down’ to people. We always treat everyone with love and respect.
  • We refer to functions, not titles. In Living Word there is no place for pride, self-importance or status. According to 1 Peter 5:5, we expect all staff, volunteers, and especially our leaders, to serve the flock.

4.  Christ-centered Worship 
  • We believe in a lifestyle of worship, honouring Christ through humility and servanthood.
  • The worship songs we sing are focused on honouring God, not pleasing man.

5.  Reconciling Intersession
  • As Jesus is interceding for us at the right hand of God the Father and the Holy spirit intercedes for us here on earth, so we also intercede for one another.
  • It is our heartfelt prayer that we will exhibit to each other the grace that Jesus has shown us, and that we will reconcile man with God. 

6.  Mutual Honour 
  • We value every person as being made in the image of God and we therefore believe that everyone should be loved and respected, regardless of gender, cultural or social status.
  • We guard against perceptions and personal opinions of others.
  • We do not talk about others in a negative or condescending manner.
  • We communicate our expectations of others and set clear boundaries.

7.  Cultural Accountability
  • We faithfully commit to Living Word’s Vision, Mission Pillars of Culture.
  • We are responsible to our congregation, not responsible for our congregation, in the sense that we do not deny people the opportunity to take ownership and responsibility for themselves. 
  • We spend the Lord's money with more consideration than we will ever spend our own money – with the utmost transparency and accountability.
  • We are committed to the spiritual disciplines of prayer, fasting, Bible reading and meditation, and we hold each other accountable to these disciplines. 
  • We shall always walk in honesty, uprightness and integrity with regard to our relationships, finances, time, resources and responsibilities.

8.  Spiritual Unity
  • We are continuously committed to furthering mutual Godly unity, and to actively resist anything that will promote disunity and disharmony.
  • Relationships are our priority. The ‘issue’ is never more important than the person, and the task is never more important than the relationship.
  • We shall at all times display God’s attitude of love and grace towards all people.

9. Ministry Empowerment
  • In ministering to people, we are constantly aware of man as a three-part being, consisting of spirit, soul and body. We strive to maintain a balance with regard to these.
  • The best way to enlarge your own capacity is by developing people with a similar calling to yours. 
  • In order to move forward in the vision God has given you, you need to reproduce yourself with strategic succession planning.
  • Succession planning is not about getting someone to assist you with your personal growth, but to develop each person within their specific and unique calling.

10. Biblical Truth
  • We are tireless in our commitment to seek biblical truth and live according to that truth.
  • We do not allow popular culture or the pressures of society to dictate our interpretation of Scripture.
  • We are committed to constant learning and development of our knowledge and understanding of the Word of God.

11. Holy Spirit Inspired
  • We encourage all family members to function in the gifts of the Spirit as described in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10.
  • We make space in our services for miracles and manifestations of the Holy Spirit.
  • We constantly maintain a balance between the Word and the Spirit - “Just the Word, and you dry up, just the Spirit and you blow up. A balance of the Word and the Spirit, and you grow up.”

12.  Kingdom Excellence
  • We regard excellence as part of our worship and our contribution to our spiritual family in which we serve.
  • We believe that excellence honours God and inspires people, and that when we do things in excellence, we can draw people into the Kingdom of God.
  • We seek to constantly improve and develop all aspects of ministry, and to find and fine-tune more effective ways of raising up disciple makers.