About this Church Plant
Manhattan Vertical Church places top priority on the vertical relationship with God. In recent day, the world focuses on the people and success which are horizontal, but we pursue the presence of God.
We maintain the 4 P strategy which is (1) Prayer, (2) Pneuma (3) Preaching (4) Proclamation.
Our church tries to spend much time on prayer. Our prayer includes the rival of the city and all of the nation. We pursue the presence of the Holy Spirit to renew our hearts and to be true witnesses. Also, our church focuses on the preaching of God's words. Everyone should participate in the Vertical Bible Journey training course. Finally, proclamation means to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth.
We target young adults group and young married couples. We also target the mid-west area near Korean Town. Our church will make the great efforts on making disciples.
Our discipleship course includes (1) vertical time which trains how to meditate God's words (2) Vertical Bible Journey (3) Vertical Prayer Training (4) Vertical Worldview Training. We believe that the discipleship will produce vertical people, vertical family, and a vertical city.
We explain what we do with the initial alphabet of "Vertical" as follows;
V : Validate our identity as people of God (1 Peter 2:9)
E: Expand the kingdom of God to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8)
R: Raise up disciples (Matthew 28:19)
T: Teach the next generation (Psalms 128:3)
I: Increase our knowledge of God by the Spirit of wisdom and revelation (Ephesians 1:17)
C: Cover the city with the gospel (Habakkuk 2:14)
A: Adore Jesus with whole-heartedly (Matthew 26:7)
L: Love one another (John 13:34)