Loving God & Loving People

We believe there is one true and living God who is the creator and sustainer of all life. God reveals Himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God over all, through all, and in all.

Scripture is the God-breathed story of His relationship with people since before the beginning of time. God uses the words in this book to inform and transform His people, shaping them into His image for His service.

God created people to live in intimate relationship with Him. When we sin we sever that relationship with God. In spite of our sins, God chose to pursue this relationship. This loving pursuit ultimately led to the gift of his one and only Son, Jesus.

God's story continues among us as we become apprentices of Jesus by imitating His life of love and inviting people into relationship with God through Jesus. Throughout this journey God shapes us as the Holy Spirit bears fruit in our lives.

Jesus Christ came to reconcile us with God. He lived a life without sin and willingly died on the cross to pay the penalty for our transgressions. God raised Him from the dead and now, by grace, offers as a free gift eternal life to all who follow Christ, by faith, as their Lord and Savior. That is why salvation can be found in Christ alone. God restores the relationship, forgiving sin and sealing us with His Holy Spirit.

The church is a community of broken people saved by God's grace and shaped by God's Spirit to reflect Jesus to the world. The church is the body of Christ. Each member is uniquely gifted by the Holy Spirit to take on his or her role in God's redeeming story. The church is God's family called to live in unity, bearing burdens and sharing joys, while faithfully awaiting the return of Christ.

Jesus Christ is returning one day to judge both the living and the dead and to usher in the fullness of God's kingdom on earth.

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment.

And Then: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."