'Gospel' means 'good news'. The Good News that Jesus spoke about was that the Kingdom of God is at hand; and this set people free to live their lives in a joyful way, sharing God's love with each other in practical ways. 
Sadly there is a lot of baggage associated with these words today, hanging over from 19th- and 20th-century ways of being Christian, which often makes the traditional 'good news' sound like 'bad news', a guilt-trip full of rules about what we should not do. But times have changed, and we hope to counter this by presenting the scripture in such a way as to clear away misunderstandings that arise through changes in society between Bible times and today, yet without resort to excessively academic language. Part of our own journey is rediscovering God's power to bring about change, setting people free to become what they were meant to be from the beginning.

We try to understand the community we live in, so as to find out what the needs of this community are, and then to begin to meet these needs as far as we are able and empowered. This includes the provision of activities that foster friendship and the discovery of new skills among those who live alone and those who are retired. If we fail to live out our faith visibly and distinctly within our community, we have no right to speak out about matters of faith.

We try to be as welcoming as possible to people of all sorts, conscious always that because of our faith we are ourselves people who are out of step with the wider society, and also that we all  fall short of what and who we could be. 

When society pulls the other way, focusing on spirituality is hard. Yet through the Holy Spirit we are all connected with each other, with the world around us, and with God, and increasing our awareness of this connectedness brings about transformation within. It is therefore important that we do not lose our awareness of God and our role within this world as the followers and family of Jesus Christ, the people of God, evidence of the Kingdom that is already here and still to come. Congregational worship, teaching and prayer are the primary means whereby we provide this focus.

God gives each one of us different abilities and skills, and it is important that we recognise this; without the Holy Spirit working among us, we become irrelevant and powerless in the world. We have very few formal rules about who can do what within the congregation; lay women and men lead jointly in worship, for example. We attempt to allow individuals to exercise their gifts in appropriate ways whenever possible. Having said that, we would not describe our Sunday morning service as charismatic: it is more traditional in style.