 VALUES
WE VALUE
--Culture current
and heart felt
worship and praise as a first obligation to God.
--The
accurate and
consistent teaching of the Scriptures as the basis
for all life
and practice.
--
Ministries of
mercy and compassion for all in need of mercy and compassion.
We
seek to meet real needs of real people with both resources and program
in every area of life.
--
People.
We seek to encourage and release people into the ministries for which
they were divinely created. We seek to treat every individual
with
respect, courtesy and consistency. We want to see people grow and
develop as individuals. We seek to restore that which is broken, no
matter what area of life that might include.
--
Relationship
and ministries that encourage relationship. This includes relationships
within the church, outside the church and in families.
--
Evangelism
by any and all means that are culturally appropriate, sensitive toward
people and demonstrably effective.
WE
BELIEVE
WE
BELIEVE
in God the Father, from whom all
things come, in Jesus Christ His only begotten Son, our Lord, and in
the Holy Spirit, one God in three Persons, indivisible. By the Father
we are perfectly loved. By the Son, born of a virgin, fully God and
fully man, are we brought to salvation. By the Holy Spirit are we
divinely indwelt. God is omniscient, almighty, infinite, yet personal.
His very nature is the essence of love. He is "Abba" (Daddy). He is
sovereign and active today in fullness of power.
WE
BELIEVE
that man, as created in God's image,
is a fellowship of two, male and female, equal under authority. We are
wonderfully and fearfully made, designed for fellowship with the
Creator as creatures both fully physical and fully spiritual. By the
willful rebellion of our race, each of us is shattered in every good
capacity. All of us have sinned. Each of us needs the Savior
desperately, and by choosing Him, each one is redeemed.
WE
BELIEVE
the Bible to be the inspired and
authoritative Word of God which alone is binding on all the church for
all time. It is eternal, living and active, spiritual food for the
spiritual man. It is the absolute description of the spiritual law of
the universe, the way reality actually works. As such, it is infallible
and sufficient for matters of life, faith and practice.
WE
BELIEVE
salvation to be by the name of Jesus
alone. The inevitable consequence of the sin of which all of us partake
is death and broken relationship with God both here and in the
hereafter. By His substitutionary sacrifice on the cross of Calvary,
the God-man, Jesus Christ, who was the propitiation for our sin, took
our death on Himself. He died, was buried, descended into Hell (I Peter
3:18-19), and was resurrected in the body on the third day, according
the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and now sits in power at the
right hand of God the Father. By His death we are forgiven. By His
resurrection we are given new life that we might again have fellowship
with Him. This salvation begins in the present for the healing of both
body and spirit and will be completed in the resurrection at the last
day when He returns to judge the living and the dead and to receive His
people to Himself.
THE
CHURCH
is Christ's body, His bride, composed
of all those who acknowledge Him as Lord and Savior and who have
committed to serve Him in love. It is called by Him to proclaim the
gospel, to make disciples, to serve and obey Him in all His Word. It is
a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, an organism endowed
with power to do His work by virtue of the coming of the Spirit on the
whole church on the day of Pentecost.
WE
RECOGNIZE
two sacraments, baptism and the
Lord's Supper, while affirming the sacred character of every other act
of the body of Christ.
WE
AFFIRM
the ancient creeds of Christian faith.
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