What We Believe

God is holy and worthy to be worshipped and praised for all that He has done and all that He is. God is love, and longs to live in a loving, personal relationship with every person He has made. Truly God’s will would be heaven on earth if every person lived in harmony with Him, and lived with others according to God’s good and perfect will.

But people are not naturally holy nor connected to God. Rather we naturally focus on ourselves, are driven by pride, greed, lust and can be mean-spirited in our thoughts and words.  This creates a hurtful separation between struggling people and a holy God. We are even without the spiritual power to correct this natural inclination away from God.

So our loving God initiated the process to reconnect with the people He made by sending His Son into the world as a man, to communicate best and identify with all human kind. But He would also demonstrate what a godly life is like and invites us to follow Him and His example.

But the highest work the Son of God completed was to Himself become the bridge between a holy God who cannot tolerate self-serving, sinful ways, and a people who cannot achieve the high spiritual and moral standards of God. So Christ suffered, died and rose from the grave as a divine sacrifice for the sin of the world, to satisfy God’s holy standard, and lovingly give people a way to God by grace through faith, not by insufficient human effort.

Every person who receives this gift from God is adopted by God as His own precious sons and daughters. As we repent and are baptized, God sends His Holy Spirit to break down the barriers of sin and resistance to Him, and create a child-like trust in God.

God continues to nurture and grow people of faith through daily the teaching of His Word – the Bible, which by the power of the Holy Spirit leads to repentance and forgiveness. He renews them as He visits and feeds His people through the celebration of the Lord’s Supper often.

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