church -planting

• equipping all believers to participate in the great commission
• reproducing the life of the church by launching new churches locally and internationally

• building authentic and long-lasting relationships
• loving one another, persevering through conflict
• living life together both deliberately and spontaneously

• pursuing intimacy with God
• engaging in the classic spiritual disciplines (such as fasting, meditation, prayer, and study) as a means of cultivating relationship with God

• expanding the kingdom of God via purposeful relationships
• affecting our spheres of influence positively for the sake of the kingdom
• sharing the gospel by all means, from confrontational to relational

• eagerly desiring and exercising spiritual gifts for one another’s benefit
• creating a culture of vulnerability that allows people to be set free from life-dominating problems

• recognizing the canonized Bible as authoritative
• utilizing Scripture as a means to knowing the triune God
• exercising humility and love in matters that are historically divisive

• meeting the felt needs of those around us
• practically improving the surrounding community’s quality of life
• serving the poor by helping practically and by affirming their dignity

• cheerfully giving to those who have need
• maintaining schedules that permit Sabbath rest
• choosing lifestyles that prevent us from being burdened by possessions

• abiding in God’s presence in everyday settings
• expressing our love for God genuinely and passionately
• experiencing the manifest presence of God via music and the visual & performing arts

our statement of faith

• We believe in one God, infinitely perfect and eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

• We believe in God the Father, creator of all things visible and invisible.

• We believe in Jesus, God's only begotten Son, fully divine and fully human, conceived by the Holy Spirit, his virgin birth, his sinless life, his miracles, his substitutionary and atoning sacrifice through the shedding of his blood on the cross, his bodily resurrection, his ascension into heaven, his present rule at the right hand of God, his coming return in power and glory to judge the living and the dead.

• We believe in the Holy Spirit, his present ministry, his indwelling, his baptism, his empowering, his impartation of gifts for today, and his transforming power in the lives of all believers.

• We believe the Bible is the inspired, authoritative, living, eternally reliable word of God and is a daily necessity in the lives of all believers.

• We believe that all of mankind is in need of redemption from sin and is eternally separated from God apart from salvation in Jesus.

• We believe that salvation comes by grace through faith in Jesus.  Salvation is made effective in and individual's life by personal repentance and surrender.  Upon surrender, we are regenerated by the Holy Spirit, enter into a process of sanctification and look forward to glorification.

• We believe that all people are resurrected, the saved to eternal relationship with God, the unsaved to eternal destruction.

• We believe in one holy universal church made up of all true believers.  Christ is the head of the church.  Every member is gifted and necessary fro the building up of the church and one another.  We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers.

• We believe  in the Lord's supper and believer's baptism as acts of our obedience and a testimony of our faith.

• We believe in the reality and ministry of angels and in the reality and opposition of Satan and demonic forces.