Our Desire
To know God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and to equip believers through discipleship. Showing God’s love, we strive to reach a hungry world with Jesus Christ through obedience to the Great Commission.
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There is one body and one Spirit, just as there is one hope to which God has called you. Each one of us has received a special gift in proportion to what Christ has given.
Ephesians 4:4, 7 (TEV)
Our Beliefs
God
The one, true, omnipotent God, Creator of all things, who exists eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ
Jesus, fully human and fully divine, who lived without sin as a perfect example, assumed the judgment due sinners by dying on the cross in our place, was raised from the dead, ascended to the heavenly Father, and offers salvation to all who repent and put their faith in Him as Lord of their lives.
Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit’s indwelling presence and transforming power of God, who gives to all believers a new life, abundant and eternal, and equips us with spiritual gifts for our God-designed purpose of obedient discipleship and holy living.
Bible
The Bible, the divinely inspired writings, which reveal the Word of God: the supreme, authoritative standard for faith and practice, to be received by the community of faith through the Holy Spirit as the sure guide to a right relationship with the Lord.
Human Worth
The value and dignity of all people who, though created in God’s image to live in joy and holiness, are separated from God and each other by sin and brokenness.
Church
The unity of all who honor Jesus as Lord in the church: the Church manifesting the faith passed down from the first Apostles through worship, prayer, teaching of the Word, observance of the sacraments, fellowship, service, witness, and sacrificial outreach to others throughout the world.
Final Victory
The future return and ultimate reign of Jesus Christ, who will judge all people with justice and mercy and honor the choices we have made.
Grace
- Prevenient Grace– Grace before you know it: the divine love that surrounds all humanity and precedes any and all of our conscious impulses.
- Justifying Grace– Grace that puts us right: God reaches out to the repentant believer in justifying grace with accepting and pardoning love. In justification, we are, through faith, forgiven our sin and restored to God’s favor.
- Sanctifying Grace– Grace that pulls us forward: We hold that the wonder of God’s acceptance and pardon does not end God’s saving work but that God continues to nurture our growth in grace.
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