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Committed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ

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WE BELIEVE there is only one God, who exists eternally as a Trinity of three persons: Father, Son, and Spirit. Each member of the Trinity is fully and equally God, yet personally distinct from one another.

WE BELIEVE that God in the flesh, Jesus Christ, was crucified and died on the cross, was resurrected from the dead, and ascended to Heaven. 

WE BELIEVE the Holy Spirit of God comes to live within a person once they trust in Jesus as their Savior. The Holy Spirit indwells all believers to lead and empower life and relationship with God, to secure salvation, and to give gifts that build the church and spread the gospel.

WE BELIEVE God created men and women to live in relationship with him. But, the first humans chose to rebel against God and brought sin into the world. Sin spread like a virus to all humans, and all have sinned, and that sin separated us from God.

WE BELIEVE that God loves the world, and by his grace delights and desires to grant forgiveness and eternal life to all who trust in Christ as their Savior. Jesus died on the cross as a perfect substitute for our penalty of sin, and resurrected to overcome the death penalty caused by sin. It is only through faith in Jesus Christ—not being good enough or doing enough good—that a person can be restored to a right relationship with God.

WE BELIEVE that the Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation of mankind, and the final authority for all of Christian faith and life.

WE BELIEVE that Christ will return to earth to conclude history and restore God’s plan for mankind.

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What is the  Gospel?

The gospel is the good news of God’s grace breaking into the darkness through Jesus Christ. God created us for relationship with Him, but sin fractured everything. Jesus came to us, living the life we couldn’t live, dying the death we deserved, and rising in victory so we could be forgiven, made new, and reconciled to God.

 

The gospel gives us a new identity as God’s family, calls us to live as servants and missionaries in the everyday stuff of life, and fuels us with the Spirit’s power to be transformed. And as we live in this good news, we look forward to the day Jesus returns to make all things new. Because He truly does change everything.

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