Core Value: Honour
We value consistent respect in word and action for one another and for leadership. We recognise and celebrate the best in people, affirming that they are valuable and powerful.
Psalm 8:5
You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honour.
Deuteronomy 6:13
Honour the Lord your God, worship only Him, and make your promises in His name alone. Do what the Lord says is right and good, and all will go well with you. You will be able to take possession of the fertile land that the Lord promised your ancestors, and you will drive out your enemies, as He promised.
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honour your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
Deuteronomy 5:16
“Honour your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, you in turn must treat your wives with tenderness, viewing them as feminine partners who deserve to be honoured, for they are co-heirs with you of the “divine grace of life,” so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
Romans 13:1-2, 5-7
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honour to whom honour is owed.
1 Peter 2:18
Those who are servants, submit to the authority of those who are your masters – not only to those who are kind and gentle but even to those who are hard and difficult.
1 Peter 2:17
Honour all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Luke 4:24-27
Everyone was impressed by how well Jesus spoke, in awe of the beautiful words of grace that came from His lips. But they said among themselves, “Who does He think He is? Isn’t He Joseph’s son, who grew up here in Nazareth?”
Jesus said to them, “I suppose you’ll quote me the proverb, ‘Doctor, go and heal yourself before you try to heal others.’ And you’ll say, ‘Work the miracles here in your hometown that we heard you did in Capernaum.’ But let me tell you, no prophet is welcomed or honoured in his own hometown.
Isn’t it true that many widows lived in the land of Israel during the days of the prophet Elijah when he locked up the heavens for three and a half years and brought a devastating famine over all the land? But he wasn’t sent to any of the widows living in that region. Instead, he was sent to a foreign place, to a widow in Zarephath of Sidon. Or have you not considered that the prophet Elisha healed only Naaman, the Syrian, rather than one of the many Jewish lepers living in the land?”
When everyone present heard Jesus’ words, they erupted with furious rage.
