Our beliefs are simple, based upon the word of God, and
can be summed up in three areas: being a Christian People,
a Holiness People, and a Missional
People.
We are united with all believers in proclaiming
the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We believe that in divine love, God offers to all
people forgiveness of sins and restored relationship. We are also reconciled to
one another, loving each other as God has loved us, forgiving each other as we
have been forgiven by God. We believe that our life together is to exemplify
the character of Christ. We look to Scripture as the primary source of spiritual
truth confirmed by reason, tradition, and experience.
We are called by Scripture and drawn by grace to
worship God and to love Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and
to love our neighbors as ourselves. To this end we commit ourselves fully and
completely to God. We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts, cleanses, fills,
and empowers us as the grace of God transforms us day by day into a people of
love and spiritual discipline, compassion and justice, and ethical and moral
purity. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that restores us to the image of God
and produces in us the character of Christ. Holiness in the life of believers
is most clearly understood as Christ-likeness.
We are a "sent people," responding to
the call of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to go into all the world,
witnessing to the Lordship of Christ and participating with God in the building
of the Church and the extension of His kingdom (2 Corinthians 6:1). Our mission
(a) begins in worship, (b) ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion,
(c) encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and
(d) prepares men and women for Christian service through Christian higher
education.
