Beliefs

It all starts with God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who reveals Himself in the Bible. We’re a community of faith, of believers: we believe God when He says His Word is true, without error, and fully trustworthy. We believe everything He says is profitable to instruct, reprove, correct, and train us in right living (2 Timothy 3:16). His Word is our final authority, and the light we walk by.

Our response to God revealed in the Bible is worship. Worshiping Him is the core of life, from which everything else flows. We treasure the best ancient traditions of Christian worship, learning from their reverence; and we seek to worship energetically, because God deserves it. We look forward to hearing His Word read and preached in the power of the Holy Spirit, and feasting at His Table every week as the joyful, grateful culmination of worship.

The Bible is the story of God’s grace to the world through Jesus Christ. We love this story. We love God’s grace, and want to be a grace-filled church. We want His grace in Jesus to shape how we read the Bible – after all, Jesus said the whole Bible is about Him (Luke 24:25–27, 44–47)! We want His grace to shape how we live. Having been saved from sin and death through Jesus’ death and resurrection, and now being God’s children in His kingdom, we want to act like the people God says we are, not just in how we relate to Him, but in how we relate to each other and everyone we meet.

Out of worship flows our life in community. We know it’s difficult to share life together as God’s people in the modern world, but we choose to obey Jesus’ words: “contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality” (Romans 12:13). Since we worship one Lord in one Holy Spirit, joined by one faith and one baptism, we can eat, drink, work, play, weep, laugh, struggle, and study together; and we hope to come to full unity in the faith and knowing Jesus – to maturity in Christ (Ephesians 4:1ff).

From together around God’s Word will grow, as He promised, a thousand generations who love Him and keep His commandments. We are a generational church: we worship and learn together as families; we love the callings of father, mother, parent, child, and sibling. We pray that God’s Spirit and the Word He has given us will fill not only our lives, but the lives of our children and theirs after them forever (Isaiah 59:21); and we embrace the duties this promise brings with it.

It’s our calling and privilege to take our life together under God’s Word to the streets and neighborhoods of our world. It starts next door to each of us. Jesus said people will see His light in how we live and love those we meet every day, and we trust Him to draw people to Himself.