What We Believe

Statement of Belief

We believe the gospel: That God has come to rescue us from sin, satan, and death and to renew all things through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He is establishing His kingdom, through His people, by the Power of the Holy Spirit now and forever. 

  • The good news is initiated by God in grace

  • The good news is undeserved: Jesus was a willing substitute for our sins and gave us His right standing with God 

  • The good news is participatory: belief in God is not abstract but embodied. We participate in the work of God in the world as he transforms us by His Spirit. 

  • The good news is for all people and for all creation: It is about God making everything new under the loving Lordship of Christ. No one who genuinely repents and believes is excluded. One day heaven will meet earth and all creation will be resurrected into perfection.

The good news is both already initiated, and not yet fully realized. The good news is about the next life but it is also about this one. It powerfully transforms us now into people of love. But we are still profoundly broken and in need of perpetual grace until salvation is fully realized in the New Heavens and the New Earth.

We believe that Jesus is the good life and that God is desirable (John 10:10; Psalm 16).
In Jesus we discover what it means to be alive and to be fully human.
In Him we learn how to give our lives away to other people in self-sacrificial love. 

The Gospel

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