Our Core Beliefs

God wants all people to live in a personal relationship with Him.

1 Timothy 2:3-4

This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

He offers this relationship as His free gift to us.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We can do nothing to earn or deserve it.

Ephesians 2:8-9

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

We have a serious problem because we are all sinners.

Romans 3:23

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

We are alienated from God, eternally separated from Him.

Colossians 1:21

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.

We are spiritually dead and cannot change our relationship with Him.

Ephesians 2:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

God is our Heavenly Father.

Matthew 6:9

This, then, is how you should pray: " Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

God is just and must punish sin.

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

God is loving and wants all people to come back to Him.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

God, our heavenly Father, sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to earth for us.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Jesus Christ is both God and Man.

John 20:8

Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

Jesus died on the cross to pay for our sins and rose from the dead to offer us a restored relationship with God.

Romans 4:25

He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

The Holy Spirit uses God’s Word and Baptism to bring us back to God.

Titus 3:4-7

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.

The Spirit convicts us of our sinfulness.

John 17:8

For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

The Spirit assures us of Christ’s forgiveness.

Colossians 1:13-14

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

The Spirit moves us to trust in Jesus Christ and restores our relationship with God.

1 Corinthians 12:3

Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit."

The Holy Spirit gathers those who trust in Christ into the fellowship of Christ’s Church.

Acts 2:41

Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

The Spirit endows all believers with His gifts so all can minister to one another and to others as they serve God.

1 Corinthians 12:7

Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.

The Spirit transforms them as He leads and shapes them through His Word, Holy Communion and prayer.

Acts 2:42

They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

The Spirit empowers and equips all Christians so that together they can build up the Body of Christ.

Ephesians 4:11-13

It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.