What we believe...
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We believe that God is real. He is good. He is up to something and we are invited to participate.
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We believe Jesus was born, lived an example of a life, taught perfect wisdom, died for all, resurrected and appeared to witnesses, and has sent the Holy Spirit as a teacher, guide, comforter - and by tending that Spirit, we are promised fruit and are gifted talents.
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We believe His grace is sufficient. We received great grace, and should likewise show it.
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We believe in prayer. Prayer is not "a" thing, it's THE thing. God invites us to bring all things to Him, talk to Him like a loving father, seek His consul, and simply talk and listen to Him all day long.
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We believe each person is on a unique journey with a unique calling on their life. Part of the church's purpose is to help you find that calling, then to encourage and support that calling.
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We believe in the long game. There is power in simply and repeatedly "showing up." God acts on the fringes, through unlikely people, and in the smallest of ways.
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The Bible
We believe the Bible is God breathed, reliable, and valuable. It reflects God's eternal love for creation, revealing the timeless nature of humanity and God's unwavering invitation to return to Him.
More than an ancient book, it is a living library of history, poetry, wisdom, prophecy, accounts of Jesus' life and teaching, the model for individual Christians and early church methods (that still work!), holy advice, direction, encouragement, wisdom and revelation. The New Testament is an unfolding of God's mission to unite to himself all of creation through Jesus and with the Holy Spirit. By gathering around His Word, we are stirred to conversation, discovery, and unity in His love.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. -2 Timothy 3: 16-17
The Church
Although one can worship alone on a fishing boat or on the couch, the assembly of church is where we put Christ back together. It is where we practice Christ-like relationships as equals at the foot of the cross: communally breaking bread, lifting prayers, singing praise and hymns, reflecting on Scripture, and overflowing our life into each other. Coming together helps us remember we are a part of the body of Christ, and we are called to take him back out into the world that needs him so much.
Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it. -1 Cor. 12: 27
God's Love
It is not, "God loves me IF ______(I do right, I know a lot, I pray a lot, etc.)," or "God loves me BUT __________(I've screwed it up, I'm not worthy, He can't use me, etc.)." It's, "God loves me AND _____!" God loved us before we were born, though of us, knit us together. We can't make God love us more, and we can't make Him love us less. The more we experience and understand that love, we can't help but want to love Him back.
Baptism
Baptism is not by magic water. It is what happens when you see the world so differently the only next thing to do is to die to the old life and rise with the new, being washed by the water and integrated into the alive and active body of Christ.