Learning to look, love, and live like Jesus!
Our Vision
We exist to help our community embrace the life-restoring grace of Jesus
Our Guiding Principles
We envision a Church who, by God's grace...
- Relentlessly makes disciples who make disciples.
- Cultivates authentic and Biblical relationships where God restores His people in His image.
- Is grounded in God’s Word and driven to be obedient in it.
- Fully surrenders to the work and movement of the Holy Spirit embodied in us all.
- Intentionally engages all people in the natural intersections of our lives to point others toward Jesus Christ.
- Seeks to challenge the complacent, encourage the troubled, and embrace God's hope for all.
- Fully depending on the power of the Gospel, the Truth that is Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit for our strength in a broken world.
What We Believe
We are a congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). As part of this denomination we affirm key essentials (below), and also keep its motto in mind: "In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity."
We believe that all Scripture is self-attesting and, being Truth, requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life. The infallible Word of God, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is a complete and unified witness to God’s redemptive acts culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the supreme and final authority on all matters on which it speaks.
On this foundation we affirm "The Seven Essentials", which are listed below.
GOD
We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To Him be all honor, glory and praise forever!
JESUS
Jesus Christ, the living Word, became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. He who is true God became true man united in one Person forever. He died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. On the third day, He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He now is our High Priest and Mediator.
SALVATION
Being estranged from God and condemned by our sinfulness, our salvation is wholly dependent upon the work of God’s free grace. God credits His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, thereby justifying them in His sight. Only such as are born of the Holy Spirit and receive Jesus Christ become children of God and heirs of eternal life.
CHURCH
The true Church is composed of all persons who through having faith in Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit are united together in the body of Christ. The Church finds her visible, yet imperfect, expression in local congregations where the Word of God is preached in its purity and the sacraments are administered in their integrity; where scriptural discipline is practiced, and where loving fellowship is maintained. For her perfecting, she awaits the return of her Lord.
RETURN
Jesus Christ will come again to the earth-personally, visibly, and bodily, to judge the living and the dead, and to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
MISSION
The Lord Jesus Christ commands all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to make disciples of all nations. Obedience to the Great Commission requires total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.” He calls us to a life of self-denying love and service. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).
HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit has come to glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to our hearts. He convicts us of sin and draws us to the Savior. Indwelling our hearts, He gives new life to us, empowers and imparts gifts to us for service. He instructs and guides us into all truth, and seals us for the day of redemption.