WHAT WE BELIEVE
OUR MISSION
Transforming lives and raising disciples through God's love, God's truth, and the power of the Holy Spirit.
OUR VISION
We believe God has called our church to impact our community. He has tasked us to be a growing light through:
- Encountering God through His presence and His word, whether in worship, preaching, teaching or whenever we gather together
- Serving families by growing children and youth in Christ through dynamic youth and children's ministry
- Developing a vibrant small group ministry where people are being discipled in God's word and leaders are being raised
- Establishing a healing ministry to bring freedom to people in all forms
FOUNDATIONAL
We believe that God is one being, and three persons, each distinctly different from each other, but making up one whole: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 43:10-11; Matthew 28:18; Luke 3:22; John 14:16)
We believe each member of the Godhead has been active throughout all of human history and pre-exists all things in existence. (Genesis 1:1; John 1:1-4, 14)
We believe that all things came into being through God and each member had a role in creation. (Genesis 1, 2; John 1:1-4, 14)
We believe that man was made in God's image; He made them male and female. (Genesis 1:26-27)
We believe that the Bible is God's unerring, infallible word, and the final authority on all things. (John 16:13, 2 Timothy 3:15-17, 2 Peter 1:21, 1 Thessalonians 2:13)
We believe in the fall of mankind through sin and temptation and in the redemption of mankind through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. We believe in His virgin birth, begotten through the Holy Spirit, His perfect life, His ministry on Earth, His death on the cross, His resurrection on the third day, and His ascension into heaven. Redemption means that the old creation is gone and a new creation is born. (Romans 3:24-25; John 3:3-7; 1 John 5:11-13; Ephesians 2:1-16; Revelation 5:9; Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 6:11)
We believe that those who acknowledge their need for Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior receive eternal life free from eternal punishment. This act alone is all that is needed for a person's salvation. (1 John 5:1-5; Romans 10:9, 13)
We believe in a literal end of all things where Christ will return and take up those faithful and judge the world one final time.
CORE VALUES + BELIEFS
We believe that water baptism through immersion is a step every believer should make as an act of obedience to Jesus Christ and as a declaration of His work to make us a new creation.
We believe the Holy Spirit is inside every believer upon their acceptance of Jesus as Lord. We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as a separate event for the purpose of filling us up with God's Spirit to sanctify us and equip the saints with power for ministry.
We believe the Gifts and Fruit of the Spirit are active in the church today. That "As Jesus is, so are we to be in this world." (1 John 4:17) Whatever Jesus did on earth, we have the same ministry and greater. We believe that gifts of tongues, healing, prophecy, and miracles are for today and are a result of a vibrant relationship with God.
We believe it is God's will to heal, set free, deliver and save through the finished work of the Cross.
We believe in the importance of communion in proclaiming and celebrating Christ's sacrifice and atoning work on the cross.
We believe that tithing to the local church is an important step in our walk with God.
We believe that it is our duty as a church to be a blessing to the community, to minister the Gospel of Peace and to walk in a ministry of reconciliation.