What we believe.

Our Guide To Living

The bible is God’s perfect love letter to us. It is about His story past, present and future. We know that the number one thing that brings life change is personal engagement with the scripture. 

The Mysterious God

God is holy, awesome, vast and eternal. He reveals Himself to us in three primary ways: through creation, through Jesus Christ, and through the Scriptures. We can know God and have confidence about what He is like, and at the same time, we will never be able to understand Him completely. 

We know enough about God to love, revere and worship Him, but most of God will remain mysterious and beyond our comprehension. Central and unique to the Christian faith is the belief that the one God has disclosed Himself eternally as distinct persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—who live eternally in loving community.

The World God Made

It all starts with a loving, incredibly powerful and majestic Creator who personally designs a universe to reflect His glory. Everything about God’s creation was “good.” There was no conflict, no destruction, no disease or pollution.

The Crown of God’s Work

Man and woman were part of God’s good creation. They were made by Him for unique relationship and interaction with Him. The phrase “image of God” means that there are things true of God that are also true of us. Two characteristics we share with God are that we are made for cooperative participation with God in His work and we share with God personhood; will, intelligence, and emotion.

The most central facet of personhood is the capacity and desire for relationship. He didn’t create us because He needed our help. He is fully complete without us, yet desires relationship with us.

What Went Wrong

The gift of freedom was given by God to both angels and human beings. For Adam and Eve, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil represented a choice— whether to humbly trust God and submit themselves to His gracious rule, or to turn from Him and go their own way. We know which choice they made, and the consequences have been passed down to us. 

Every relationship we were made for was fractured. Instead of intimacy with God, there is fear and hiding. Instead of intimacy between man and woman, there is shame, hurt and a struggle for power. Even creation itself groans under the weight of human disobedience. Instead of humble obedience to God and joyful delight in His creation, humanity became enslaved to the power of sin. 

Our inner natures have become bent towards evil. And the Scriptures teach that the end result of our sin is death. The Bible says that unless our sin problem is addressed, we will experience spiritual death which means being separated from God both now and into eternity.

The Best News Ever

The good news is our Creator quickly moves to become our Redeemer and implements a plan to deal with our sin and bring us back into relationship with Himself. In spite of our sin and rebellion, God does not remain distant from our world, but enters this world to restore us to Himself and set the world back to the way He designed it to be.

God Himself comes to the world as Jesus Christ and begins to reverse the curses of sin and death that have ravaged humanity since the time of Adam and Eve. When He died on the cross, our old selves died with Him; and when Jesus rose from the dead, our new selves rose with Him. He restored our relationship with God by providing a means of forgiveness of the debt we owed. He broke the power of sin over us so that we may overcome the evil in ourselves and in our world.