Core Values

We are Incarnational

Terra Nova is an attempt to bring truth to time. God is most accessible to us, and understood by us, when He looks like us. It is our belief that America has to look at itself as a mission field more than ever before. In a time when there is hyper change, movements of ideas and people have created generational shifts that are highly noticeable. New ethnic groups and a fully matured consumer industry have promoted acustomized sense of identity in affinity groups. It becomes important for the church in the United States to see itself more than ever as a missional body. Jesus walked where the people were. Paul did the same as he walked onto Mars Hill and used the cultural icons of the day to reflect Christ. The missional principle of incarnation, bringing truth to time, is critical to Terra Nova and its mission of reaching out.

We are Monastic & Missional

We are the Church gathered and the Church scattered. We are to live as a community that gathers for worship, cares for one another and is instructed from the Word. But the Church must also be missional. We need to be able to walk among the people and integrate the incarnation into our lives. In doing this, we will restore the original purpose on the monastery.

We are Christocentric

Unity comes from our unique relationship to the one true head of the church, Jesus Christ. In Matthew 16, Jesus teaches his disciples what they need to know before they can make a commitment of life and death. These key pieces of truth are the kerygma that provide the standard and common base for Christians. We believe the church will only be successful as much as it is Christocentric. We have to find ways to talk to people about the Truth, with Jesus at the center and us as a revolutionary movement, willing to put the mission and the Master above all we have and all we are. Terra Nova must not become a reactionary force to produce something hip or trendy, but must truly be centered on Jesus Christ.