Monday, March 6, 2006

Our Beliefs

We believe in God the Father, Jesus Christ His Son, and the Holy Spirit.

We believe in the reality of sin that separated us from the Triune God and from our neighbors.

However, through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Triune God who is full of grace, has granted salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.

We believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of the world.

The Holy Spirit is God present and active in the world to bring about God's plan of salvation, restoration, and completion.

The Holy Scriptures, the Old and New Testaments, reveal God's plan.

We believe in the resurrection of the body and everlasting life under the eternal reign of God.

We believe that the church community is the body of Christ, where Jesus Christ is worshipped and praised, the Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments are administered.

We believe the church community serves to build and strengthen its people so that we may grow in maturity (sanctification), and to send out its people as instruments of God?s plan.