What We Believe

We believe in and worship the only true God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - who is both one essence and three persons, being both co-eternal, and co-equal. God is the source of all goodness, all truth and all beauty, of all love and all life, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.

We believe in God the Father, revealed to us as the principle of the Godhead, The Holy and Hallowed name from whom are all things and for whom we exist. The Father designed and organized how mankind would be redeemed. He set into motion a complex set of events, actions, and prophecies that culminated in the life and death of a Savior.

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We believe in Jesus Christ, who is both truly God and truly human. Jesus is the Son, the second person of the Trinity, being of one substance with the Father; He is eternally begotten of the Father. Jesus, who for us, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered, died, and was buried, and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; from where He will come again to judge the living and the dead and His Kingdom will have no end.

 

We believe in the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son as our comforter and advocate. We are able to confess Jesus Christ as Lord and God only through the work of the Holy Spirit. He comes to us as He came to the gathered disciples at Pentecost: to dwell in all believers, to kindle our faith, to embolden our witness, and to accompany us in mission.

 

We believe in the Bible as the very Word of God, the clearest declaration of God’s glory. The Scripture of the Old and New Testament is our infallible guide to reveal our disobedient nature, our tutor to lead us to Christ, and our rule of faith and life. We affirm that the Holy Spirit inspired the writing and preservation of the infallible Scriptures. The Holy Spirit testifies to the authority of God’s Word and illumines our hearts and minds to receive the wisdom and knowledge of God’s revelation to humanity.

 

We believe in God’s grace in Christ so that those who are united through faith in Jesus Christ are fully forgiven from all our sin, so that there is indeed a new creation. We are declared justified, not because of any good that we have done, but only because of God’s grace extended to us in Jesus Christ.

 

We believe in the Covenant life in the church where we are elect in Christ to become members of the community of the new covenant. This covenant, which God Himself guarantees, unites us to God and to one another. In Christ, we are adopted into the family of God and find our new identity as brothers and sisters of one another, since we now share one Father.

 

We believe in the sanctity of the marriage covenant between a man and a woman as established by God at the creation. As unmarried believers we are to embrace a celibate life as established by Jesus in the new covenant.

 

We believe in the sanctity of life which begins at conception and recognize and honor the image of God in every human being from conception to natural death.

 

We believe in the desire to live in obedience to the Word of God. Our journey together to progress in holiness is an expected response of gratitude to the grace of God, which is initiated, sustained, and fulfilled by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit. The mark of the Christian life is love; to love God with our whole heart, soul, mind and strength and our neighbor as ourselves.

 

We believe… in Jesus Christ we see the perfect expression of God’s holy will for human beings offered to God in our place. His holy life must now become our holy life. In Christ, God’s will is now written on our hearts, and we look forward to the day when we will be so confirmed in holiness that we will no longer be able to sin. As the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, Jesus leads us along the path of life toward that goal, bringing us into ever deeper intimacy with the Triune God, in whose presence is fullness of joy.