Statement of Faith

Our statement of faith provides a description of those truths which we hold as foundational to the Christian faith as guided by Scripture.

We believe there is one God who lives eternally in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit— who love and glorify one another. They are co-equal in fundamental nature but distinct in function. We believe that God not only created the world but also now upholds, sustains, governs, and directs all that exists, and that He will bring all things to their final completion in Christ Jesus to the glory of His name.

God the Father is the first Person of the three-person God, of whom the Son is eternally begotten and from whom the Holy Spirit eternally proceeds through the Son. The Father, who made all things through the Son, sent the Son to rescue us and gave the Holy Spirit for our rebirth and adoption as children of God.

We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, fully God and fully man. Jesus lived a sinless human life and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all people by dying on a cross. He rose from the dead to demonstrate His power over sin and death. He ascended to Heaven where, at God's right hand, He intercedes for His people. He will return again someday to earth to reign over the whole world.

We believe that the Holy Spirit is fully God, equal with the Father and Son. We believe that the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Church at Pentecost in power, baptizing believers into the Body of Christ and releasing the gifts of the Spirit to them. He lives in every Christian from the moment of new birth, and desires to continually fill each believer with ongoing power for living, understanding of spiritual truth, and guidance in doing what is right. The Spirit brings the permanent indwelling presence of God to us for spiritual worship, building up the Church, and gifting us for ministry.

We believe that the Bible is God’s revealed Word to us. It was written by human authors, under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is the essential record of God's self-disclosure; it is the only infallible source of truth and the final authority in all matters of Christian beliefs and living.

We believe that Satan was originally a great and good angel who rebelled against God. As a result, he was cast out of God's presence, taking a host of angels with him. As a usurper of God's rule and the enemy of God and His people, he established a counter-kingdom of darkness and evil on the earth.

We believe that God made man — male and female — in His own image, as the crown of creation so that man might glorify Him through enjoying fellowship with Him. Tempted by Satan, man rebelled against God and fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and death into God’s good creation. We all are marred by this condition of disobedience toward God, separated from God, captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness, and corrupted in every aspect of our being—physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. 

We believe that the Gospel is the good news of what God has accomplished for us through the life, death, and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ. We can never make up for our sin by self-improvement or good works. We are made right with God by His grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. When we turn from our self-ruled life and turn to Jesus in faith, we receive forgiveness of our sin and the gift of eternal life. This saving grace of God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, also enables us to do what is pleasing in God’s sight so that we might be progressively conformed to the image of Christ.

We believe that the Kingdom of God, already present but not fully realized, is the exercise of God’s rule in the world toward the eventual redemption of all creation. It is an inbreaking of power that is now present in the church and in the life of each believer through repentance and faith. The Kingdom of God will be fully realized over the whole world after the return of Jesus Christ when He delivers all things to the Father.

We believe that Christ’s primary call on our lives is to be a people who are centered on Him and seeking His Kingdom. We believe God’s purpose in creation and redemption is for a people who are conformed to the image of Christ, transformed to be like Him. We seek God’s Kingdom presence in our families, at work, in leisure, and in the family of the church. We want to preach, live and demonstrate the gospel of the Kingdom.

We believe that God is on a mission to demonstrate His love to His world through His Church, the Body of Christ, the primary instrument through which He is fulfilling His redemptive purposes in the earth. We believe in the one, holy, universal church, the Body of Christ, a spiritual organism made up of all genuine followers of Jesus Christ, called to work together in unity and honor in preaching the Gospel to all nations. We believe the local church exists to worship and glorify God and to creatively engage the contemporary culture through the church's ministry, worship, and proclamation of the Gospel, demonstrating it in every aspect of culture and society, promoting justice and love. We recognize believer’s baptism and the Lord’s Supper as scriptural means of testimony for the church.

We believe that the life of God comes to us through the Holy Spirit. We affirm that it is through the power of the Holy Spirit that we encounter God’s presence, personally and corporately, and that we minister to the world around us. We see the Holy Spirit’s ministry and gifts in the life of the believer and the church as central to spiritual growth and experiencing the promised fruit of the Spirit, and that these gifts are to be eagerly desired, faithfully developed, and lovingly exercised according to biblical guidelines. We believe that all the biblical gifts of the Spirit continue to be distributed by the Spirit today and that the ministry of the Spirit in signs and wonders continues to be as broad, tangible, and powerful among believers today as it was in the early church.

We believe that worship stands at the center of our life of faith. We gather to glorify, magnify and bless God, to offer Him the worship He deserves; as we worship, the King of kings is “enthroned” in our praises. His promise is that when we gather together in His name, He comes into our midst through the presence of the Holy Spirit. In His presence, we are blessed, set free, transformed, healed, and empowered. His presence propels us to live lives of worship, of service to Him as well as ministering to Him every day.

We believe in the personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgment, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal separation to those who have refused to receive eternal life, and establish a new heaven and new earth.