BELIEFS



WHAT WE BELIEVE


TENETS OF FAITH

We believe the Bible to be the inspired and only, infallible and authoritative, Word of God.

 

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We believe that Jesus Christ is the second member of the Trinity (the Son of God) who became flesh to reveal God to man and to become the Savior of the lost world.

 

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, in His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in the blessed hope of His personal, visible, future return to this earth to receive to Himself, His blood-bought church, that it may be with Him forever.

 

We believe that the only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the precious blood of Christ.

 

We believe that the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross provides the sole basis for the forgiveness of sins. Therefore, salvation only occurs when a person places his faith in the death and resurrection of Christ as the sufficient payment for his sin.

 

We believe that the redemptive work of Christ on the cross provides healing of the human body in answer to believing prayer.

 

We believe that we are sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise, empowered to witness by the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and we are continually being filled with the Spirit. We produce the fruit of the Spirit as we walk in the Spirit.

 

We believe in the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, and by His indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life.

 

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the one to ever-lasting life and the other to ever-lasting damnation.

 

We believe that the church is the body of Christ of which Jesus Christ is the Head. The members are those who have trusted by faith the finished work of Christ. The purpose of the church is to glorify God by loving Him and by making Him known to a lost world.


CORE VALUES

WE CHOOSE TO BELIEVE.

· Because we believe God is our partner, we choose to make our plans BIG.

· Because we believe, we choose to think big and not insult God with small thinking.

· Because we believe, we choose to take risks and not insult God with safe living.

 

WE CHOOSE TO BE SPIRITUAL CONTRIBUTORS NOT CONSUMERS.

· The church does not exist for us.

· We are the church, and we exist for the world.

 

WE CHOOSE TO LIVE A LIFE OF GENEROSITY.

· We choose generosity because we truly believe it is more blessed to give than to receive.

· Choosing generosity is not just what we do, being generous is who we are.

· We choose to plan to be generous and stand firm in generosity.

 

WE CHOOSE TO BE INWARD AND OUTWARD FOCUSED.

· We don’t just WANT to reach people for Jesus… we MUST reach people for Jesus.

· We choose to do anything short of sin to reach people who don’t know Jesus.

· We choose to reach people no one is reaching, so we’ll do things no one is doing.

 

WE CHOOSE TO DO LIFE TOGETHER.