We believe in one God, eternal, infinite, and perfect, who created all things and holds all things together by the word of his power. He is the source of all goodness, truth, and beauty, and his ways are beyond our ability to fully comprehend. We confess the mystery of the Trinity: this one God exists eternally as three distinct and co-equal persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the same in essence, united in will, and working inseparably in creating, sustaining, and redeeming the world. This is not a puzzle to be solved but a mystery to marvel and cause for worship. 

We believe Jesus Christ is God who, in his grace, came to earth as a human being in an actual time and place in history. He is both fully God and fully human—the true image of God, the kind of human we were always meant to be. We believe he was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. We believe he lived a sinless life, died on a cross as a sacrifice to cover the sin of the world and triumph over the powers of darkness, and he rose from the dead (physically) and ascended into heaven where he continues his ministry to us. There he is our mediator and intercessor with the Father until he returns at the end of this age.

We believe that the Holy Spirit is God at work in the world today. He reveals the goodness and truth of Jesus, convicts us of our sin, opens the truth of Scripture to us, and transforms us into new creations when we believe in him. For followers of Jesus, he provides us his Holy Spirit as a gift to live in us, to guide us, to teach us, and to empower us. We eagerly receive the gifts He gives for the building up of the church. 

We believe the Scriptures, the entire Old and New Testaments, are the inspired Word of God—without error in all that they affirm and the only infallible rule of faith and life. God has preserved them through the ages not as a relic but as a living word, addressed to all people in every time and place. Through His Holy Spirit, He still speaks through them today. We come to the Bible not only to learn but to hear from God himself, and we gladly submit every part of our lives to its authority.

We believe that God created human beings, male and female, in his own image and likeness. We believe that our first parents were made in a state of original goodness—free to know God, walk with him, and flourish in the world he made. Every person, without exception, carries a dignity and worth that cannot be earned or lost, and indeed must be recognized, because it comes from God himself. Men and women equally bear his image, and every human life is sacred. For more information, click the button below.

We believe our first parents chose to rebel against God, and in that rebellion sin and death entered the human story. We believe this is not merely their story. It is ours. All of us are born into a broken human condition, bent away from God by a nature that is not what he intended. Sin is not just the wrong things we do; it is a disordering of our whole selves—mind, will, and heart—that separates us from the God who made us for himself. Left to ourselves, we are lost. This is the condition from which Jesus came to save us, and apart from his saving grace, we are without hope.

We believe that Jesus' life, death, and resurrection provide the only possible way for our salvation. He came not only to forgive us but to restore us into the image we were always meant to bear. We are completely and forever saved only by God's grace. Only as one receives this good and perfect gift from God, by repentance and faith in Jesus, is someone born of the Holy Spirit and made a child of God, renewed from the inside out into the fullness of what it means to be truly, gloriously human.

We believe that Satan is a created being who sinned through pride and, along with his fallen angels, has become the enemy of God and God's people. He is captain of powers and forces at work in the world that distort, corrupt, and set themselves against God's redemptive purposes for his creation. Yet we believe that Jesus Christ, through his death and resurrection, has decisively defeated Satan and all the powers of evil. Because we are united to Jesus, we share in that victory—we are given authority in his name to resist the enemy, stand firm, and advance the kingdom of God without fear.

We believe that God's Church is made up of all his people who have been born again through saving faith in Jesus. We are different parts of one Body, and Jesus is the head. We believe a local church is a body of believers who gather for worship, grow through the Scriptures and the Holy Spirit, and are sent into the world — to proclaim the good news of Jesus, to serve the poor, to seek justice, and to work for the flourishing of our neighbors and our city. We believe the local church is the tangible, present expression of God's universal Church, fulfilling its purpose in the world through word and deed, proclamation and presence.

We believe that Jesus himself gave his Church two sacred practices: baptism and communion.  In baptism, we are united with Christ in his death and resurrection. Baptism is the outward sign of an inward reality: that we have died to our old selves and been made new by the grace of God. In communion, we proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. As we share the bread and the cup together, we remember his body broken and his blood poured out for us, we are nourished by his presence among us, and we lean forward in hope toward the feast we will share with him face to face. Both are gifts we receive in obedience to Jesus, and they are among the ways he meets us, forms us, and holds us together as his people in the world.

We believe that Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly, in power and glory, to fulfill his salvation and his judgment, and to make all things new. Until that day, we are a people on mission—and we would not have it any other way. The time between Christ's ascension and his return is not empty waiting; it is the season given to us for proclamation, for service, and for faithful witness to the world he came to save. We do not go in our own strength. The same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in us, and it is by his power that we love, serve, and endure until Christ comes.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of all who die. Jesus did not rise as a spirit. He walked out of the tomb in a body, the firstfruits of a new creation that God has pledged to complete. What he did at Easter, he will do for the whole world. We believe that those who have rejected Jesus will face the tragedy of eternal separation from him. But those who have received God's gift of salvation will be raised to life in his presence not as disembodied souls escaping the earth, but as whole persons in a world made new, dwelling forever in the wonderful presence of God.