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Who We Are

Mission Statement

Submitting ourselves to the claims of Jesus Christ, together we seek to honor Him,
 embody His presence and proclaim His gospel with authenticity, humility, and love.

Our Mission Explained

Submitting Ourselves means we are followers first. Our identity and purpose is
determined by the one who calls us to follow him.

The Claims of Jesus Christ means that we value Jesus' statements about himself more
than our own statements about him. We are convinced the claims of Scripture are true
and that they transform our lives.

And Proclaim His Gospel means we actively communicate what we believe;

that the message of God's love and grace revealed in Jesus' life, death, and resurrection is the means by which we are saved from sin.

With Authenticity, Humility, and Love means that we acknowledge our own brokenness
and need for God, yet we remain unequivocally devoted to the cause of Christ

and our delivery of his gospel message.
 

Core Values

■ Worship which honors and glorifies God is central to our life together.
■ Prayer that opens our hearts and aligns our wills to God and provides support for those we serve.
■ Bible, leading to the formation of Christian Character while challenging our cultural bias.
■ Theology which challenges our thinking of the Christian faith through the understanding of others and helps us become mature disciples of Jesus.
■ Fellowship in which individuals can know and be known and a mutual commitment to Christ allows for the truth to be spoken in love.
■ Evangelism which is both personal and corporate, and both local and beyond our cultural borders.
■ Service in the Spirit of Christ to all those in need, both within and outside church, as a means of communicating the love of Christ.
■ Lifestyle choices that reflect our trust and gratitude to God and promotes generous use of resources and willing support for ministry.
 

                           Beliefs
        ▪ A Brief Statement of Faith   ▪

   In life and death we belong to God. Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel, whom alone we worship and serve.

   We trust in Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God. Jesus proclaimed the reign of God: preaching good news to the poor and release to the captives, teaching by word and deed and blessing the children, healing the sick, and binding up the brokenhearted, eating with outcasts, forgiving sinners, and calling all to repent and believe the gospel. Unjustly condemned for blasphemy and sedition, Jesus was crucified, suffering the depths of human pain and giving his life for the sins of the world. God raised Jesus from the dead, vindicating his sinless life, breaking the power of sin and evil, delivering us

from death to life eternal.

   We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father. In sovereign love God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God's image male and female, of every race and people, to live as one community. But we rebel against God; we hide from our Creator. Ignoring God's commandments, we violate the image of God in others and ourselves, accept lies as truth, exploit neighbor and nature, and threaten death to the planet entrusted to our care. We deserve God's condemnation. Yet God acts with justice and mercy to redeem creation. In everlasting love, the God of Abraham and Sarah chose a covenant people to bless all families of the earth. Hearing their cry, God delivered the children of Israel from the house of bondage. Loving us still, God makes us heirs with Christ of the covenant. Like a mother who will not forsake her nursing child, like a father who runs to welcome the prodigal home, God is faithful still.

   We trust in God the Holy Sprit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life.

The Spirit justifies us by grace through faith, sets us free to accept ourselves and to love God and neighbor, and binds us together with all believers in the one body of Christ, the church. The same Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture, engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the waters of baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation, and calls women and men to all ministries of the church. In a broken and fearful world the Spirit gives us courage to pray without ceasing, to witness among all peoples to Christ as Lord and Savior, to unmask idolatries in church and culture, to hear the voices of peoples long silenced, and to work with others for justice, freedom, and peace.

 

In gratitude to God, empowered by the Spirit, we strive to serve Christ in our daily tasks

and to live holy and joyful lives, even as we watch for God's new heaven

and new earth, praying, Come, Lord Jesus!  With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us

from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

   Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.   Amen.