What We Believe

There is a God. He absolutely loves you. So much in fact He gave you a free will to choose whether or not you wanted to respond to the relationship He initated.

Inside every one of us there's a longing to be with God. However we also wrestle with this sense of seperation from God... there's a disconnect. That disconnect is often referred to as sin - it's the actions, the thoughts, the words that lead us away from God and to a spiritual death.

God understands all this stuff going on in the human heart and about two thousand years ago He sent His Son, Jesus to explain God and become the payment for a debt none of us could every repay, no matter how good or consistent we thought we could be. Many people thought God was an evil task master - someone you could never please; or someone who was distant and didn't really care. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Jesus arrived on the earth to make God know to all of us. He didn't arrive as someone with power and position, He arrived in a simple stable and experienced all the same challenges and temptations you and I do, except He didn't sin. The intriguing thing about Jesus, is that people who where so unlike Him loved to hang out with Him, and He loved hanging with them. In fact His closest friends weren't people who had it all figured out - they were people who had some pretty messed up lives. Jesus had one request of the people that he hung out with, it was simply will you follow me. You see, Jesus knew if people would simply follow Him He would have the opportunity to explain God, and in explaining God people would begin to understand how much God loves and accepts them. Loves them so much that He would actually help them change and become better people, become who He had in mind.

It didn't end there... God wanted you and I to experience the community He initated with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. He called it church - a community of faith devoted to following, believing and obeying Him, together. Together. Church is about being together, about going through life and this journey together. God made it clear that you and I weren't meant to do life on our own - He's provide a relationship with Him and each other that gives us the strength and courage to walk through this life.

So here we are thousands of years later and it hasn't changed. It's still a journey and it all begins with, "will you follow." God will show you how much he loves and accepts you. You'll connect with God and in the context of His family you'll find purpose, meaning and the courage and strength to grow and change. As for us, we need only to decide whether or not to believe and receive this stuff. If we decide to believe it, we have available to us a new, full life that can start now and never stop. And it’s OK to have a lot of questions along the way.

If you would like more details, take a moment to read our Statement of Faith.