What makes a revivalist?

“Revivalists” are those who are faithful and committed to God, who are willing to pay whatever price is necessary to live in lasting community, purity and power, because they believe in God’s love, whose manifest presence transforms lives and cultures.

Core Values

At CSSM we build our school culture around these specific core values

God Is Good

Jesus perfectly reveals the nature of God as a good Father. God is good regardless of our circumstances. God is generous, and as we share testimonies of what he has done, we give Him space to do it again

Salvation Creates Joyful Identity

We are new creations, not merely “sinners saved by grace,” but saints who have been given His righteousness. We are adopted as royalty into God’s family.

Responsive To Grace

God scandalously loves His “lost” creation and extends grace. He empowers believers to love Him and others at a higher standard than the law. Deeply experiencing grace enables us to walk out of shame and into righteousness.

Focused On His Presence

Our first ministry is to God. As a lifestyle, we focus on Him while we minister and attempt to say what God is saying and do what He is doing.

Creating Healthy Family

We are adopted into God’s family, so we intentionally create family and community wherever we go. We think like healthy family members by doing what’s best for the whole environment, submitting to one another, and living selflessly.

God’s Word Transforms

When we encounter God in the Word, faith is released into our lives. As we study Scripture, it empowers us to learn who God is, who we are and how He wants us to live.

His Kingdom Is Advancing

Every believer is in full-time ministry because God is advancing His Kingdom, not just building His Church. Our work and effort, whether big or small, inside or outside the church, is sacred and valuable to God.

Jesus Empowers Supernatural Ministry

Jesus promised signs would follow believers and that they would do even greater works than He. Nothing is impossible with God, so no person or situation is beyond His ability to bring complete restoration.

God Is Still Speaking

Jesus said that His sheep would know His voice and that the Holy Spirit would teach us all things. It’s natural for God to communicate with His family and important for us to listen, learn His language, and test what we are hearing with Scripture.

Generous Like My Father

God is extravagantly generous. The thread of this generosity is woven throughout His creation, covenants, provision, the person of Jesus, and the Kingdom, as He consistently models that it is more blessed to give than to receive. God has blessed us in every way so that we can be generous in every way to advance the Gospel. Our generosity is a response to, and reflection of, Him.

Hope In A Glorious Church

We believe the Church will successfully fulfill Christ’s great commission to make disciples of all nations, which means the nations will be transformed.

Honour Affirms Value

Honour recognizes and affirms how valuable and powerful other people are because they are made in His image.

Free And Responsible

Christ died to set us free from the law of sin, death, fear, and shame. Freedom is very personal, but not self-centered. We have been given freedom to serve one another in love.

Lifestyle

 

Learning from the outside in:

We aim to establish a healthy lifestyle and culture within you.  The following is a practical expression of choices and behaviors that flow from our core mission of becoming a revivalist.  We have found them very helpful in creating an atmosphere that advances the Kingdom. 

These are the characteristics of a revivalist:

Believer

We expect students to grow in the Truth - Come to love it. Deeply enjoy its value to save and transform. Ultimately, to radically live it

Focused

Focus is the key in accomplishing all that God has called you to become.

Passion

When we are passionate about something, our whole being is engaged. As you love Him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, you will tap into His passion for yourself, His Church, and the lost.

Willing to pay any price

CSSM is not just a school. Rather it’s a nine-month training centre and it costs far more than money to attend here. We are dedicated to raising up the ones who are willing to pay this price.

Community

We are not our own; we have been bought with a price and placed in a family and our behaviour deeply affects others. Community is one of God’s most powerful tools for changing us into His likeness.

Purity

The Lord asks us to walk in purity because it is life giving. CSSM’s environment of freedom requires a high level of connection to God and community along with self-management.

Power

The Good News without power is not good news. Paul was glad that his preaching wasn’t with persuasive words but demonstrations of power (1 Cor. 2). One of our goals is that every student would know how to cast out demons, heal the sick, and preach the Gospel.

Loved by Him

“We work from love, not for love.” —Kris Vallotton. Let the primary focus of your life be to fall more in love with Jesus with each passing day.

Transforms lives and cultures

Jesus has called us to go into the nations and be the salt and the light of the world. Learn to reproduce yourself by “teaching [others] to obey everything Jesus Christ has commanded us” (Matt. 27). Like Paul says, “Follow my example as I follow the example of Christ.”

Nature Of CSSM Outreaches

One of the aims of CSSM is to motive students to step out and take risks during their day-to-day lives to display the Power of the Holy Spirit. e.g. praying for the sick at work, giving prophetic words to strangers, sharing the gospel, etc. Onsite students also have an opportunity to attend group outreach activities in and around various communities.

When Do Students Go On Outreaches?

Students are expected to complete six Faith Risks Challenges during the year. These take place during their everyday lives. Onsite students are given the opportunity to attend 5 group outreaches on some Saturdays.

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