What We Believe

"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." - A.W. Tozer

  • We are Christian.
    • We affirm faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
    • We affirm Christ as the second person of the Trinity.
    • We hold to the orthodox creeds and traditions of the Christian church.

  • We are Protestant.
    • We believe in justification by grace through faith alone for salvation
    • We believe in the authority and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures.
    • We believe in the priesthood of all believers.
    • We believe the gifts of the Spirit are distributed among all believers in the body of Christ.

  • We are Evangelical.
    • We believe in the possibility and necessity of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through the forgiveness of sins and transformation of our character into the likeness of Christ.
    • We believe in the witness to our faith through changed lifestyles.

  • We are Wesleyan.
    • We believe in the essential nature of God around which all theology builds—“God is love” (1 John 4:8).
    • We believe humans exercise free will in order to have meaningful relationships with God.
    • We believe God exercises grace and mercy toward humanity.
    • We believe God’s prevenient grace goes before a person, keeps that person from going deeper into sin, and draws him or her back to God.
    • We believe God’s seeking, redeeming, saving, sanctifying, and sufficient grace works with a person to make him or her into a child of God and gives ongoing victory in the Christian walk.
    • We believe in the optimism of grace to break the power of sin in a person’s life and transform the individual from a sinner into a child of God who willfully obeys the Lord with a heart of love.
    • We believe holiness and sanctification are real possibilities in this life.