Galt Family Values

As the leader of my family, I have sought to summarize the main values we want to hold as a family. This is a work in progress. If anyone has thoughts about how I might tweak or add anything, I'm open to suggestions. Here is my current draft:

We, the Galt family, affirm that God is glorified when we find our delight in Him alone. Thus, we recognize that our purpose is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. We seek to embrace the following values towards the fulfillment of this purpose.

1. Mission – We will seek to glorify and enjoy God by spending ourselves for the advancement of the gospel. We believe the gospel is of first importance (1 Cor 15:3-4). The gospel is God’s message of salvation that provides redemption from the curse that has come upon the earth as a result of human sin (Gen 3; Rom 1-3). The redemption about which we speak in the gospel will culminate in the new creation—the ultimate consummation of our redemption (Rev 21).
2. Prayer – We will seek to glorify and enjoy God by expressing our dependency upon Him though prayers of praise, thanksgiving, and supplication. As God’s creatures, we are wholly dependent upon Him. We have nothing that we have not received from Him (1 Cor 4:7). Therefore, we seek to acknowledge our dependency upon God through prayer, expressing praise to Him (Psalms 104:35; 106:1, 48; 111:1; 112:1; 113:1; 117:1; 135:1-3, 21; 146:1-2), giving thanks to Him in all things (1 Thess 5:8), and making our requests known to Him (Phil 4:6-7).
3. Church – We will seek to glorify and enjoy God through our commitment to our church family. We recognize that the Christian faith is something that is to be lived out within a church community (Heb 10:24-25). We therefore commit ourselves to the church by maintaining the doctrinal teachings of our predecessors (Heb 13:7), submitting to the authority of our church leaders (Heb 13:17), hearing the preaching of God’s Word (Rom 10:17), remembering Christ through sacred communion (Matt 26:26-28), remaining accountable to our church body (Matt 18; Gal 6; James 5:16), giving faithfully and sacrificially from the resources with which we’ve been entrusted (Mark 12:41-44; 2 Cor 9:7), and determining to help our brothers and sisters grow as disciples as we exercise our spiritual gifts for their edification (Eph 4:11-16).
4. Discipline – We will seek to glorify and enjoy God by ordering our lives for the purpose of godliness (1 Tim 4:7). We rejoice in the freedom from a lifestyle of bondage to sin that we have experienced through the gospel (Rom 6:6-7). Thus, we will, by faith, seek to put sin to death and to order our lives in such a way as to hasten our sanctification (Rom 8:13; 1 Tim 4:7).
5. Worldview – We will seek to glorify and enjoy God by seeking to cultivate a biblical worldview. We believe that all treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Christ ( Col 2:3). Therefore, as followers of Christ, we seek to conform our thinking to God’s revelation in the Scriptures. Our desire is to be transformed by the renewing of our minds so that we might know God’s will (Rom 12:2).