What We Believe
Truth shapes how we live, worship, and care for one another. Our beliefs are rooted in Scripture and centered on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Guided by Truth
Scripture as our Foundation
The Bible is our foundation and final authority in matters of faith and practice. We believe Scripture reveals who God is, what He has done through Christ, and how His people are called to live together—loving God, loving others, and growing in faith through obedience and grace.
Centered on Jesus
At the center of our faith is Jesus Christ—the Son of God, fully God and fully man. Through His life, sacrificial death, and resurrection, He has made a way for humanity to be reconciled to God and to one another. Salvation is a gift of grace, received through faith, rooted in repentance, and expressed through a life transformed by Christ.
We believe following Jesus is not meant to be done alone. God calls His people into a shared life marked by love, peace, and faithfulness—where relationships matter, reconciliation is pursued, and growth happens over time. Our desire is to live out these beliefs together as a church family, shaped by Scripture and centered on Christ.
Our Beliefs & Values
We want to be a biblically defined church, with biblically defined servants (evangelists, shepherds, and deacons), who lead the church to worship and enjoy the risen Savior together as a family. We want to know names, not numbers—stories not statistics. We want to look out every week and see family, not just friendly anonymous faces.
Scripture
We believe that the holy Bible, consisting of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, alone is the word of God, being fully written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and therefore is without error in the original manuscripts, and has supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
God
We believe that there is one living and true God, the Maker, Preserver, and Ruler of all things, having in and of himself all perfections, and being infinite in them all. To him all creatures of the highest, love, reverence, trust, and obedience.
Trinity
We believe that God, eternally exist, and three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that these are without division of nature, essence, or being, and are equal in every divine perfection. We affirm that God is all-loving, all-powerful, all-knowing, and is always present.
Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ is God's only begotten son, and he is fully god and fully man. We believe in his virgin conception, by the Holy Spirit, sinless life, miracles, prophecies, and teachings. We believe in his substitutionary, atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for his people, and personal, visible return to earth to both judge the world, and gather his saints to himself.
Spirit
We believe in the Holy Spirit, who came forth from the Father and Son, to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify, and empower all who believe in Jesus Christ. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Christ through baptism, and that he is an abiding helper, teacher, and guide, whose goal is to transform us into the image of Christ.
Salvation
We believe that salvation is a gift from God, and it is through faith in Jesus that we can receive this gift. We believe that confessing Jesus as Lord is essential, as stated in Romans 10:9. This confession is rooted in the miracles, teachings, and the bodily resurrection of Jesus (1Corinthians 15:14). Furthermore, repentance (turning away from sins) is an important process towards salvation, as emphasized in Acts 2:38. We also believe in the importance of baptism by full water immersion as an expression of one's faith in Jesus and to identify with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. This act of baptism is not only an expression of faith but also a means of receiving forgiveness of sins, salvation, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and being added to God's church, as mentioned in Acts 2:38 & 47, Romans 6:4-5, and Mark 16:16.
1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.