WHAT WE BELIEVE
We believe that God loves you. There is nothing more important we could list first!
We believe that God desires every person to search for Him. We believe you can seek and find God, because He is not far from anyone. And at the same time, He is also relentlessly pursuing you. We believe God wants to connect you to His story.
Our places in this story look different, because we are all different. But we are all in this story, on this journey, together. Belief in God is not the end of that journey, but merely the beginning.
We believe God sent Jesus into this world in human form. He was sent to preach good news to the poor, to heal and comfort the brokenhearted, to announce a new arrival of the kingdom of God, to restore our fractured world. His message was a breath of fresh air to those enslaved by the systems in place. Likewise, His message was rejected by many who wished to hold on to the status quo, as He stood up to the oppressive nature of both the RELIGIOUS elite, and the Roman Empire. Because of this confrontation, Jesus was made an example...
We believe God inspired the writers of the Bible to speak to people of all generations, including this one.
The Bible was written as a sort of road map to help us along our journey. God calls us to engage this road map both individually and with others; in fact, perhaps the best way to figure the road map out is to have many pairs of eyes looking at it together. We learn about the story thus far and our place in it today, from the Bible.
We believe in the beginning, what God created was good. Humanity was created to be in community with God, each other, and all of creation. But through our own mistakes, darkness and evil entered into the story and are now a part of the world. This devastating event led to our relationships with God, ourselves, others and creation being fragmented – a shadow of what they were meant to be – and in desperate need of redeeming.
We believe God did not leave us behind to wallow in our mess. Instead He promised to heal this broken world.
We believe Jesus’ path of suffering, crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection is what brings life to all of creation. Through Jesus we have been forgiven, and restored to full community with God. Because of this, God is now likewise restoring us to each other, ourselves, and creation. Jesus calls His followers, His church, to be a blessing to the rest of the world.
We believe when the church gets it right, it is the hope of the world. We believe church should be a breath of fresh air, as Jesus was, instead of oppressive as the empires and RELIGIOUS elite who fought against Him.
And we are giving our lives to living this out!!!