Helping People Experience the Hope and Freedom Found in Jesus

We believe God has revealed His nature, character, and will in the Bible, which is the uniquely inspired written Word of God, infallible and without error in all that it affirms, and is the final authority in all matters of faith and apprenticeship. 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:20-21; Jn 10:35; Acts 2:42; Eph 3:2-6; 1 Thess 2:13; Deut 17:18-20; Josh 1:8-9; Neh 8; Ps 19:7-11; 119

We believe in the one true Almighty God, holy, eternal, immortal, unchanging, and self-sufficient, Who eternally exists in three co-equal members of the Trinity-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is perfect in goodness, wisdom, power, and love, knowing all things past, present, and future. God created all things visible and invisible, His sovereign plan of redemption was set in place before the foundation of the world, and He will bring it to completion. Deut 6:4; Isaiah 40, 44; Gen 1:1-2; Exod 3:14; 34:6-7; Jas 1:17; Matt 28:19-20; 2 Cor 13:14; 1 Tim 6:16-17; Eph. 1:3-14

We believe God creates all human beings in His image, male and female, and therefore all people have value and purpose. Adam and Eve together disobeyed God and so incurred divine judgment unto death. All likewise sin and fall short of the glory of God, and are thereby alienated from God, in bondage to sin, and under the condemnation of God's righteous wrath. Gen 1-3; 9:6; Ps 8; 139; Jn 8:34; Rom 1:18-32; 3:9-20, 23; 5:12; 7:14-24; Eph 2:1-3; Col 1:21; Titus 3:3

We believe in Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son and living Word, our Savior and Lord. He was born of a virgin, becoming fully human in all ways yet was without sin, and established God's kingdom on earth being both human and divine. He died in our place as a substitutionary sacrifice for our sins, bearing divine judgment and reconciling to God all who trust in Him. He was bodily resurrected in victory over Satan and death, and He ascended to the Father's right hand where He currently reigns and intercedes for His people. Matt 1:18-25; 4:23; Mk 1:14-15; Lk 2:1-21; Jn 1:1-18; Rom 3:21-26; 5:1-11; 8:1-4, 31-39; 2 Cor 5:18-21; Phil 2:1-11; Col 1:15-20; 2:9-15; Titus 3:4-7; Heb 1:1-4; 2:14-15; 9:11-28; 1 Pet 2:21-25; 3:18-22; 1 Jn 1:9-2:2; 3:8; 4:9-10; Rev 5:1-14; 12:1-12

We believe salvation can be found only in Christ and is offered to all by grace through faith- a living faith that is demonstrated through repentance, confession, baptism, and a life of loyal obedience to King Jesus. We believe Christ will visibly return to restore creation and judge the living and the dead, welcoming believers into God's eternal blessing and shutting out from God's presence once and for all those who have rejected the gospel. Jn 14:6; Acts 4:12; 2:38; Eph 2:8-10; Rom 10:9; Lk 9:23-26; Acts 1:11; 1 Cor 4:5; 1 Thess 4:13-18; 2 Thess 1:5-12; Rev 20

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the one Jesus promised would come after he ascended to the Father. The Holy Spirit is fully divine and personally present in the church and in the world, perfecting the work of the Father and Son. The Holy Spirit draws unbelievers to Christ through conviction of sin and illuminating the power of the gospel. The Holy Spirit indwells believers to seal, assure, transform, guide, gift, and empower them for apprenticeship and service in and for God's kingdom. John 14-16; Mth 28:19; Acts 5:3-4; 1 Cor 2:11-12; Heb 9:14; Gal 4:4-6; 5:16-25; Jn 16:8-11; 2 Cor 3:12-18; Eph 1:13; 1 Cor 12; Rom 8

We believe the church is a community of apprentices to King Jesus, comprised of all those across time and beyond denominational distinction who have joined God's covenant family through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. The one, holy, global church is the bride and body of Christ over which He rules as head, the temple of the Holy Spirit, and the visible manifestation of God's invisible kingdom. The church gathers in love to worship God through preaching, song, giving, baptism, and the Lord's Supper, and then scatters into all the world to demonstrate, proclaim, and embody the gospel of King Jesus. Mt 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; 2:38-47; Rev 7:9-17; Eph 5:22-33; Rom 12:3-8; 1 Cor 3:16; 11:17-34; Eph 3:9-11; Col 3:11-17; 4:2-6