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Values

Last Updated: January 3, 2019 Contact: Geoff Davis
These are the values that reflect the kind of culture we are striving to cultivate at Veritas.

Present

Defined:

  • When interacting with someone, interact only with them.
  • Relationally engage in your ministry and life.
  • Don’t be ruled by expediency; rather do things together.
  • Don’t use people to do ministry; rather people are the ministry.

Necessary Behaviors:

  • Use eye contact.
  • Don’t use tech during meetings; use only the necessary tech.
  • Listen well to actually hear what they are saying, not just to respond.

Honest

Defined:

  • Say what you mean; mean what you say.
  • Honestly say what you need to say without nuancing it too much.

Necessary Behaviors:

  • Be honest.
  • Define uncertain terms.
  • As a listener, take responsibility to ask questions when unclear.
  • Use language and terms that are consistent across the congregations.

Consistent

Defined:

  • Be faithful to what you’ve committed to so others know what to expect from you.
  • Relationally persevere.
  • Stick to what is valued and of primary importance.

Necessary Behaviors:

  • Follow through with communication and fulfill what you’ve agreed to.
  • Recognize inconsistencies in yourself and in your teams to help correct them.

Humble

Defined:

  • Consider other’s interests first.
  • Be open to feedback and being wrong.
  • Seek to understand rather than to first be understood.
  • Do not seek the spotlight, power, or control.

Necessary Behaviors:

  • Do what needs to be done for the good of the church as a whole (even above, beyond, or below your job descriptions).
  • Do not act as though entitled.
  • Be patient.

Graceful

Defined:

  • Show kindness to imperfect people with the expectation that Jesus is at work.
  • Do not excuse sin or failure, yet don’t be surprised when it happens.
  • Walk alongside people through sin and failure.
  • Be available to each other, even when not deserved.

Necessary Behaviors:

  • Forgive people when they wrong you.
  • Think the best of others and don’t jump to anger and frustration when things go wrong.
  • Support each other to take risks, to try things, even if it fails.

Encouraging

Defined:

  • Recognize the work of God in people’s lives and give them the courage to trust him.
  • Intentionally build each other up in love and unity.
  • Actively celebrate how people are gifted and how God is using them.

Necessary Behaviors:

  • Don’t just look at negative aspects, but seek to see the good in things as well.
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