What We Believe

We believe that Jesus is the good life and that God is desirable (John 10:10; Psalm 16).


In Jesus we discover what it means to be alive and to be fully human.


In Him we learn how to give our lives away to other people in self-sacrificial love. 

We believe the gospel: That God has come to rescue us from sin, satan, and death and to renew all things through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He is establishing His kingdom, through His people, by the Power of the Holy Spirit now and forever. 

  • The good news is initiated by God in grace

  • The good news is undeserved: Jesus was a willing substitute for our sins and gave us His right standing with God 

  • The good news is participatory: belief in God is not abstract but embodied. We participate in the work of God in the world as he transforms us by His Spirit. 

  • The good news is for all people and for all creation: It is about God making everything new under the loving Lordship of Christ. No one who genuinely repents and believes is excluded. One day heaven will meet earth and all creation will be resurrected into perfection.

The good news is both already initiated, and not yet fully realized. The good news is about the next life but it is also about this one. It powerfully transforms us now into people of love. But we are still profoundly broken and in need of perpetual grace until salvation is fully realized in the New Heavens and the New Earth.

  • We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The Bible is God’s infallible, inerrant Word, and our supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct. All Scripture is a testimony to Jesus Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.

  • We believe there is one and only one living and true God, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. This eternal God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe in Jesus Christ. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles and teachings. We believe in His substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people and personal, visible return in glory to judge the earth. We believe in the Holy Spirit, coeternal with the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit inspired the Scripture, convicts of sin, calls people to salvation, transforms us to holiness and gifts the Body of Christ for service.

  • We believe salvation is God’s work of bringing his people into experiential union with Him. God has delivered His people from death and lostness through the substitutionary death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. God is working through Christ to restore all things to perfection in the new heavens and new earth. All of mankind has rebelled against God and is condemned to eternal death. Jesus, God’s Son, died in the place of sinners and rose from the dead, conquering sin & death. Through faith in Jesus, people can experience the compassion, forgiveness, and presence of God both now and forever. Salvation now, through the empowering and transforming presence of the Holy Spirit. Salvation forever, when Jesus returns to make all things new and to raise all who know Him to eternal life.

  • We believe in the universal church as the Body of Christ, including believers from every tribe, tongue, people and nation. We believe in the local church, consisting of a local family of believers, associated by covenant in the faith, seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. The scriptural officers of a local church are elders and deacons. Each local church is called to faithfully proclaim the Gospel, administer the symbolic ordinances of believers baptism and communion, and call its members to holy living.

  • We believe in the Kingdom of God & His final reign over all things. At present, Christians live under God’s rule while we wait for the fullness of God’s Kingdom that will be expressed at the return of Jesus. When he returns, Jesus will judge all mankind in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous, in their resurrected and glorified bodies, will dwell forever with Christ in the new heavens and new earth.