Our Beliefs

We believe humanity was born from the overflow of divine joy—the eternal love shared within the Trinity (Genesis 1:26–27; John 17:24). We worship one eternal God, Creator of all things (Genesis 1:1; Psalm 90:2). This one God exists in three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—perfect in unity, equal in glory, distinct yet never divided (Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14). Within the life of the Trinity is boundless joy, unbroken union, and inexhaustible love (John 17:21–23; 1 John 4:8, 16). Love is not merely something God does; it is who God is—eternally, necessarily, beautifully.

We believe the Holy Spirit is God’s living presence among us—breathing life into faith and opening our eyes to the beauty of Jesus (John 14:16–17, 26; 1 Corinthians 12:3). God’s Spirit fills the world He made (Psalm 139:7–10), yet uniquely dwells within every believer as a sacred home and holy companion (1 Corinthians 3:16; Romans 8:9–11). The Spirit reshapes our character from the inside out, bearing fruit that reflects Christ Himself (Galatians 5:22–23; 2 Corinthians 3:18). He forms us into the likeness of Jesus—guiding, convicting, comforting, and renewing us day by day (Romans 8:14–16; John 16:7–8). And His presence within us is our seal and guarantee of the eternal hope promised in Christ (Ephesians 1:13–14; 2 Corinthians 1:21–22). The Spirit sends us into the world with power and purpose, joining God’s mission of love, justice, and renewal (Acts 1:8; John 20:21–22).

We believe the Bible is the sacred library of God’s dealings with humanity—a woven story of creation, covenant, redemption, and restoration (Luke 24:27; 2 Timothy 3:15). Though written by human hands across centuries, it is breathed into by God Himself, inspired by the Spirit who speaks through every page (2 Timothy 3:16–17; 2 Peter 1:20–21). Because God is faithful and true, we trust Scripture in all that it teaches—its witness to who God is, who we are, and how we are called to live (Psalm 19:7–11; John 17:17). The Bible guides our steps, shapes our imaginations, convicts, comforts, and leads us into the life of Jesus (Psalm 119:105; Hebrews 4:12). Through Scripture, the Spirit continues to speak, forming us as a people who listen, obey, and hope.

We believe that sin is, at its heart, a failure to love—the fracturing of the very life God intends for us (Matthew 22:37–40; Romans 13:8–10). Every one of us has failed to love God with our whole being, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to love creation with care, and even to love our own souls rightly (Romans 3:23; Isaiah 53:6). Thus, we all stand as sinners—those who miss the mark, who turn inward, who choose lesser loves over the God who is love (1 John 4:8; Jeremiah 2:13). Because sin is a move away from God’s heart and against His Spirit, it always creates distance—wounding us, distorting our desires, and separating us from the One who made us for communion (Isaiah 59:2; Romans 6:23). Yet even in our sin, God moves toward us with mercy, seeking, rescuing, and restoring.

We believe the great gap between God and humanity could only be bridged by a powerful act of love—God’s own love poured out in Jesus Christ (John 3:16; Romans 5:6–8). On the cross, Jesus took upon Himself our failures, our wounds, our crimes against love, so that we might be brought home to God with nothing left between us and His heart (Isaiah 53:4–6; 2 Corinthians 5:18–21). His death covers our sin; His resurrection opens the way into new life (1 Peter 2:24; Romans 6:4). Salvation is not earned—it is received. All that is required is to step into the river of God’s forgiveness through faith, entrusting our lives to the One who saves (Ephesians 2:8–9; John 1:12–13). In Christ, we are welcomed, washed, restored, and made new.

We believe we are saved by the Resurrection of Jesus—the full, bodily rising of Christ from the grave (Luke 24:36–43; 1 Corinthians 15:3–8). In His rising, a new kind of humanity has begun, a people being transformed into fearless creatures of love (1 Corinthians 15:20–22; Romans 8:29–30). The Resurrection breaks the chains that once held us—sins like greed, pride, envy, and all the small tyrannies of the self (Romans 6:4–6; Colossians 3:1–10). As the Spirit applies the power of Christ’s resurrection to our lives, we find our old selves losing their grip so we can practice and experience the deep things of God: joy, shalom, courage, and love (Philippians 3:10–11; Romans 8:11; Galatians 5:22–23). The empty tomb is our beginning and our future—Christ’s life becoming our life, now and forever.

We believe God created the Church to be His community of love—those learning, practicing, and embodying the way of Jesus together (John 13:34–35; Ephesians 5:1–2). We don’t always get it right, but this is precisely why the Church exists: to grow into love, to bear with one another, to forgive, to persevere, and to become, in Christ, what we cannot be on our own (Colossians 3:12–14; 1 John 4:11–12). In a world longing for healing, God calls His people to be a living witness of His heart—repairing what is broken, healing what is wounded, inspiring hope, and joining the Spirit’s work of restoring creation to God’s original and beautiful design (2 Corinthians 5:18–20; Ephesians 2:14–22; Revelation 21:3–5). The Church is meant to be, in the truest and deepest sense, the “love experts”—those shaped by the love of the Father, formed by the grace of Jesus, and empowered by the Spirit to love in ways that make the world new.