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VISION & BELIEFS

OUR AFFIRMATIONS

We affirm the centrality of the word of God. We affirm the necessity of the new birth. We affirm a commitment to the whole mission of the church. We affirm the church as a fellowship of believers. We affirm a conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit. 

We affirm the reality of freedom in Christ.

OUR BELIEFS & DOCTRINE

We affirm the historic creeds of the church, including the Apostle’s and Nicene Creeds, and the first seven historic councils of the church (especially with regards to the formulations of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).

God

There is one, eternal God, Creator and Lord of the universe who, in the unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, governs all things according to God’s will and is accomplishing God’s purpose in the world and in the church.

The Holy Spirit

We believe the Holy Spirit guides and instructs us in life. He fills all true believers at the moment of salvation. He lives in individuals, guides in the understanding of God’s Word, and empowers God’s church for life in this world. He empowers every believer with spiritual gifts so that every believer has a mission and purpose in His kingdom and in this world. All of the gifts of the Holy Spirit on display in the church of the New Testament are available today, are vital for the mission of the church, and are to be earnestly desired and practiced.

Salvation

Salvation from the guilt, penalty and all other consequences of sin has been achieved solely through the work of Jesus Christ – his perfect obedience, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection and exaltation as Lord. Jesus alone is fully God and fully human, the only mediator between God and humanity. There is salvation through no other person, creed, process or power. Each sinner is justified before God and reconciled to God only by divine grace appropriated by faith alone.

The Church

There is one, holy, universal and apostolic church, which is the Body of Christ, and to which all true believers belong. The church’s calling is to worship God forever and to serve God’s mission of reconciliation.

Image of God

We affirm that all people are created in the image of God and have eternal worth. The truth of the image of God in all people has often been deeply distorted by divisions between people along ethnic, racial, gender, socio-economic, and cultural lines. We reject any teaching or practice that upholds these distortions and perpetuates a doctrine of superiority within the body of Christ. We lament the ways scripture has been illegitimately used to cause harm and strive by the power of the Holy Spirit to pursue reconciliation with all people.

The Church's Mission

As a church of baptized believers, we believe baptism and Holy Communion, also called the Lord’s Supper, to be the ordinances and sacraments of the church. Christ commanded their practice to be visible signs of the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers. Baptism is the visible sign of a person coming into the covenant family of God. Holy Communion is a sign of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross and is celebrated often. While we affirm other sacramental acts, such as marriage and anointing, that are important in one’s Christian life, these acts do not contribute to an individual’s salvation or restoration before God.

The Bible

The Holy Scripture in its entirety is inspired by God’s Spirit through human authors and constitutes the revelation of God’s truth to humanity. It is wholly true and trustworthy in all that it affirms. Whatever the Bible, rightly interpreted, is found to teach, we are bound to believe and obey. It is our supreme authority in every matter of belief and conduct.

The Signs of the Church:
Baptism and Communion

As a church of baptized believers, we believe baptism and Holy Communion, also called the Lord’s Supper, to be the ordinances (or sacraments) of the church. Christ commanded their practice (hence “ordinances”) to be visible signs of the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers. Baptism is the visible sign of a person coming into the covenant family of God. Holy Communion is a sign of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross and is celebrated often.

Jesus Christ

We believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the one true Christ. We believe that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus lived a sinless life, calling all to repent and believe the Gospel. He unjustly suffered crucifixion under Pontius Pilate. His death was part of God’s plan to atone for the sin of all people, having been foretold by the prophets according to Scripture. We believe that He was raised bodily from the dead and that He appeared to many of His disciples before ascending into heaven, where he now sits at the right hand of God.

Humanity

All human beings are created in God’s own likeness and therefore have inherent value and equality before God. Human sin and guilt since the fall have rendered us subject to God’s wrath and condemnation and have resulted in our alienation from God’s life, suppression of God’s truth and hostility to God’s law. God’s love desires all to come to repentance and to be reconciled.

The Christian Life
The Fellowship of Believers

We believe in the Christ-filled life that begins with accepting Him as Savior. Through His sacrifice on the cross we have forgiveness of sins and victory through His resurrection. Christ then lives in us and, by the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit, we have victory over sin in this world. Because Christ lives in us, we know that we will never fall out of salvation, though we may have times of temptation and backsliding. He will empower us to persevere in this world so as to be made perfectly whole in eternity.

Ministry to the World

We believe God created His church for the ministry, service, and salvation of the world. We minister on His behalf to show the change that can come through salvation by the Gospel of Christ and by doing so, we fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.

We believe in the priority of fellowshipping in the local church with other believers.  The Church is not a physical building in which we gather but is the body of believers that live, work and serve together for the advancement of God’s Purposes. This includes worship, celebration of the ordinances and sacraments, study of scripture, sacrificial living, gospel proclamation and pursuing biblical justice. Believers need each other as brothers and sisters in Christ.

Christ's Return

We believe in the physical, imminent coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power, glory, and judgment. We believe that all who have died before His Coming will be raised bodily from the dead; believers to eternal peace and joy a literal, physical Kingdom on earth, and unbelievers to a state of eternal separation from God. We believe that the hope of His Coming is a source of hope for this life.

The Church's Mission

As the Father sent the Son into the world, so the Lord Jesus Christ sends his church to participate in God’s mission by words and works. The church is called: to make Christ known; to proclaim God’s truth and the gospel of God’s grace; to make disciples among all nations; to exhibit God’s character through compassionate care for the needy; to demonstrate the reality of God’s kingdom through creative and sacrificial living, the community of love, the quest for righteousness, justice and peace, and the care of God’s creation.

New Heaven and New Earth

As the Lord Jesus ascended to his Father, so he will return personally, visibly and in glory. He will raise the dead and bring salvation and judgment to final completion. God will then fully establish his Kingdom and finish the new creation – a new heaven and a new earth from which all evil and evildoers, all suffering and death, will be excluded and in which God will be glorified forever.

Unity in Essentials,
Charity in Non-essentials

As the Father sent the Son into the world, so the Lord Jesus Christ sends his church to participate in God’s mission by words and works. The church is called: to make Christ known; to proclaim God’s truth and the gospel of God’s grace; to make disciples among all nations; to exhibit God’s character through compassionate care for the needy; to demonstrate the reality of God’s kingdom through creative and sacrificial living, the community of love, the quest for righteousness, justice and peace, and the care of God’s creation.

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