Values

 

  • Jesus is the central focus of our lives.
  • People matter to God and to us.
  • Authentic change is possible through the power God’s Spirit and prayer.
  • We must love one another more than we love our opinions.
  • The Goal of our gatherings is to celebrate and worship God.
  • Our methods must be culturally relevant and our message biblically pure.
  • The ministry is the task of all the members, not just the paid staff.
  • Maturity results from the balance of corporate worship celebrations and small group participation.
  • Children and Youth will always be a priority in our ministry.
  • Integrity, accountability and excellence will guide every decision.

Beliefs

  • We acknowledge the Creator-God as our Heavenly Father, infinitely perfect and intimately acquainted
  • We proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, God in the flesh, the object of our worship and the subject
  • We recognize the Holy Spirit as the third member of the Godhead, incessantly at work convicting, comforting, guiding and gifting.
  • We affirm our confidence in God’s inspired, authoritative Word. We treasure the truths of the Bible and respect its reproofs.
  • We confess that Adam’s fall into sin left humanity without the hope of heaven apart from a new birth, made possible by the Savior’s death and bodily resurrection.
  • We believe the offer of salvation is God’s love gift to all. Those who accept it by faith in Christ, apart from works, become new creatures in him.
  • We anticipate our Lord’s promised return, which could be at any moment.
  • We are convinced that all who have died will be brought back from beyond — believers to everlasting communion with God and unbelievers to everlasting
    separation from God.
  • We know the Lord is continuing to enlarge his Family, the Body of Christ universal, over which he rules as Head.
  • We are grateful to be a part of a local Church which exists to proclaim God’s truth, to administer the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, to stimulate growth toward maturity and to bring glory
    to God.
  • We believe in the biblical definition of marriage between one man and one woman and in the sanctity of life