What We Believe
We believe that in the beginning of time God began a story. This was a story unlike any other ever told. God told a story of creation. Now in this story God spoke the world into existence. He took that which was nothing and made it into something. God then filled that world with people, plants, animals, and all sorts of good things. God lived in harmony with those things and everything was good.
But the harmony was broken. The connection between creation and God was fractured by sin. Sin entered the world and began convincing people that God was not after humanity's best interests - in fact, God wanted humans to miss out on what was really best. Even though this was a lie, people bought it. This sin began to tear the creation from the Creator. God decided to act.
God revealed God's self to humanity through signs, messengers, and wonders, proclaiming more and more about the Creator to the creation. Most of humanity, however, turned away from God. So God took the outrageous step of sending God's own son - Jesus Christ - to proclaim the true nature of God's love.
Jesus showed God's love through all he taught and all he did. The powers of the world found the message of God threatening to their own kingdoms and decided Jesus had to die. Through a rigged trial and a bloody crucifixion, Jesus died. His enemies rejoiced and his friends hid in fear. God, however, had plans for God's Son and for God's story - plans bigger than anyone could imagine. Early on the third morning after Jesus' death, the miraculous occurred and Jesus appeared! God had raised Jesus from the dead forever conquering the power of sin and death.
The story continued with Jesus' friends and followers becoming witnesses to this new reality: death no longer was the ultimate end. Jesus has conquered death and offered new life to all who seek it. This is the reality we celebrate today. Jesus called all his followers to go out and make disciples of all nations. We believe the biblical account that defines disciples as those who seek to pattern their whole lives after the example of Jesus. Therefore, we choose to give our whole lives to the service of God.
Jesus invited his followers to enter the story and proclaim the Good News. We believe we have been invited and called to embrace the story of grace and forgiveness in our own lives and speak that truth to others.
We know that life is hard. We believe, however, that faith anchors us and gives us hope. We believe that the struggles we face are not the end of our story and that God is not through with us yet.
We know that the road can be hard, but we have found that going together makes the trip easier. Join us as we seek to follow Jesus more fully and love each other more deeply. Come be a part of a bigger story - the story of God's amazing love!
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But the harmony was broken. The connection between creation and God was fractured by sin. Sin entered the world and began convincing people that God was not after humanity's best interests - in fact, God wanted humans to miss out on what was really best. Even though this was a lie, people bought it. This sin began to tear the creation from the Creator. God decided to act.
God revealed God's self to humanity through signs, messengers, and wonders, proclaiming more and more about the Creator to the creation. Most of humanity, however, turned away from God. So God took the outrageous step of sending God's own son - Jesus Christ - to proclaim the true nature of God's love.
Jesus showed God's love through all he taught and all he did. The powers of the world found the message of God threatening to their own kingdoms and decided Jesus had to die. Through a rigged trial and a bloody crucifixion, Jesus died. His enemies rejoiced and his friends hid in fear. God, however, had plans for God's Son and for God's story - plans bigger than anyone could imagine. Early on the third morning after Jesus' death, the miraculous occurred and Jesus appeared! God had raised Jesus from the dead forever conquering the power of sin and death.
The story continued with Jesus' friends and followers becoming witnesses to this new reality: death no longer was the ultimate end. Jesus has conquered death and offered new life to all who seek it. This is the reality we celebrate today. Jesus called all his followers to go out and make disciples of all nations. We believe the biblical account that defines disciples as those who seek to pattern their whole lives after the example of Jesus. Therefore, we choose to give our whole lives to the service of God.
Jesus invited his followers to enter the story and proclaim the Good News. We believe we have been invited and called to embrace the story of grace and forgiveness in our own lives and speak that truth to others.
We know that life is hard. We believe, however, that faith anchors us and gives us hope. We believe that the struggles we face are not the end of our story and that God is not through with us yet.
We know that the road can be hard, but we have found that going together makes the trip easier. Join us as we seek to follow Jesus more fully and love each other more deeply. Come be a part of a bigger story - the story of God's amazing love!
Click here to read what we believe about worship.
