Purpose and Core Values

Sunrise Chapel is more than a beautiful venue, more than the shared perspective of its members, more than a loving community of people. It’s the church with the heavenly view of the Lord Jesus Christ, His amazing and inspiring Word, spiritual maturity, service, and the joys that come with people collaborating in shared faith and life.

Our CORE VALUES help us carry out this lofty purpose:

Honor the Lord’s presence in all people and all aspects of life

Seek and accept the Lord’s guidance in the Bible and its inexhaustible spiritual meaning

• “The Word was with God, and the Word was God... All things were made by Him.... And the Word was made flesh.” John 1: 1, 3, 14
• “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24:32
• “Read the Word and believe in the Lord, and you will see the truths that are to be part of your faith and your life.” True Christianity 621

Inspire all to live and grow spiritually

• “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart — These, O God, You will not despise.” Psalm 57:17
• “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3
• “Stay awake and keep praying so that you won’t come into a crisis. The spirit is eager, but the flesh is sick.” Matthew 26:41
• “First get the beam out of your eye, and then you will see clearly enough to get the sliver out of your sibling’s eye.” Matthew 7:1-5
• “Natural life in and of itself, apart from spiritual life, is nothing but being asleep. But having a natural life with a spiritual life inside it is being awake.” Apocalypse Revealed 158

Accept all into spiritual community

• “The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works.” Psalm 145:9
• “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Leviticus 19:18, Matthew 22:39
• “Everything you want people to do for you, keep doing likewise for them. For this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12
• “God makes his sun rise on good people and evil people, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” Matthew 5:45
• “I pray for those who believe in Me, that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us.” John 17:20,21
• “The essence of love is loving others, wanting to be one with them, and blessing them from oneself.” True Christianity 43
• “Those who have kindness hardly see any evil in others. They notice everything good and true in them; and they put a good interpretation on anything evil or false. All angels are this way, a trait they have from the Lord, who bends everything evil into good.” Secrets of Heaven 1079

Provide useful service to the community

• “Without usefulness, love and wisdom are only fleeting abstract entities, and they do indeed fly away if they do not move in the direction of usefulness.  True Christianity 67
• “Angels in heaven get nothing but happiness out of being useful; and they receive it in proportion to their usefulness. So true is this that to them usefulness is what makes heaven.” Secrets of Heaven 7038
• “Charity consists in doing—in being useful, in other words. If we love our neighbor as ourselves, we do not feel any delight in charity unless we are being active or useful. As a consequence, the life of charity is a life of usefulness. This is the life found throughout heaven, because the Lord’s kingdom, since it is a realm of mutual love, is a realm of useful activity.” Secrets of Heaven 997
• “Usefulness is the source from which, the means by which, and the measure according to which the Lord gives us life.” Secrets of Heaven 503

The worldwide New Church

Sunrise Chapel is part of a bigger, worldwide church denomination, and it carries out its parent denomination's mission.