The concept of "values" is one that I find very troubling. I remember someone I trust saying once that the word "value" itself was not a Christian word or idea at all, but came from Nietzsche. I retained this information without any context or understanding, until I started reading more philosophy for myself.

I now believe that the very concept of "our values" is inimical to Christian faith. The term and concept of "values" very much has its roots in a materialistic, atheistic worldview espoused by Nietzsche, and largely blindly accepted by our Western Culture, the Church included. The idea that something has value because we value it removes the idea that there are things inherently Good and True as a result of the Creator's making and caring. Something's worth, truth and goodness cannot be determined or prioritised by our opinions on the matter.

A connected problem here is that if we can "value" something or someone - that is, we can give them value - it also means that we can "de-value" them - we can remove their value.

When Churches use this kind of language, it reinforces our culture's emphasis on the sovereignty of the individual (not simply the freedom of the individual) and our own ability to give value.  I would suggest, following philosopher George Grant, that it is nearer the truth to ask what Good we are to conform to (or even better, how we are to be conformed to Christ), rather than what meanings or truths we value. (Linked here is a brief explanation of Grant's take on the matter).

https://curlewriver.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/george-grant-the-good-vs-values/

I don't make this suggestion expecting for it to be adopted. I understand fully that our culture is comfortable with the language of values, and does not understand the language of conforming to the Good. We are generally losing, or have lost, the ability to think about ethical and justice matters in ways that are not utterly influenced by Western, atheistic philosophy. We even associate the idea of "values" with Christian principles, because we have bought so fully into the modern (and now post-modern) emphasis on the individual as god. Whereas this used to exist solely in the realm of academia, it has now of course entered every aspect of popular culture, and really every area of modern life.

My hope rather is that small communities of witness would be fostered and nurtured, communities that consider the source of the truth they believe, and hold onto convictions forged in the fires of relationship with God and obedience to his Word, rather than opinions created out of the agreement of everyone in the room at the time or the prevailing winds of culture.