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Our Essentials

  • We believe in the one, true, and triune God who is God the Creator, God the Redeemer (Jesus Christ), and God the Sustainer (Holy Spirit).

  • We believe that God created the entire universe out of nothing, breathing life into existence.

  • We believe in the Imago Dei, which is Latin for God’s image. We believe that all of humankind is created equally in the image of God.

  • Because of the trinitarian nature of God in which we were made, we believe that we were made for relationship with God, with others, and with the rest of creation.

  • We believe that sin isolates us from our relationship with God and robs us of becoming all that God intended for us to be.

  • We believe that God loved us so much that God wasn’t interested in being God without being in relationship with us. As a result, God decided to send Jesus Christ to reconcile us back into relationship through living the perfect life.

  • We believe that Jesus Christ was God with us, incarnate, which means that we believe that Jesus Christ was 100% human and 100% divine.

  • We believe that Jesus Christ perfectly embodied a holy life of love and relationship with God and with people. We believe that the accounts recorded in the Gospels are examples of the ways in which God was healing, reconciling, and renewing all of creation into that for which it was created.

  • We believe that Jesus Christ lived, died, and rose from the dead to redeem humanity of their sin and allow us to once again be in full relationship with God.

  • We believe that after Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, the Holy Spirit was sent to guide, sustain, transform, and empower Christians to be ambassadors of Jesus Christ on earth.

  • We believe that the goal of Christian life is to love God with all of who we are and to love others as Jesus first loved us, which means living a life transformed through the power of the Holy Spirit.

  • We believed we are called to live like Jesus Christ.

  • We believe in the Bible, that it is Holy, inspired by God, and supposed to serve as the main guidebook on our journey towards Christ’s likeness.

  • We believe in the Church, which is the body of Christ, and that it is to be the example of the unity, community, and love of Jesus Christ to the world.

  • Lastly, we believe that all people are equally loved by God and therefore should be equally cared for and loved as children of God.