Core Values
Glorifying God: A priority of loving God and Neighbor
This is expressed through Exalting God in every area of our life. Making Him visible through receiving His love and authentically loving our neighbor; this includes acceptance of people for where they’re at, a willingness to be inconvenienced, and through sacrificial acts of service.
Christ-Centered Worship: Honoring Jesus individually and with others
This looks like a posture of humility before Christ interwoven in our daily lives. This is demonstrated through serving others with our unique giftedness and helping each other find their “place.”
Bible-Centered: Transformational teaching and preaching
Christ is revealed as we dig into Scripture to reveal truths relevant for today’s world. Challenging listeners to search themselves and to ask the Holy Spirit’s help in becoming more Christ-like. Having our eyes and minds open to His glory, love, and promises.
Spiritual Formation: Growing in Christ-likeness
Recognition of our need for continued growth in Christ. This
requires spiritual friendship, attention to spiritual disciplines and
intentional practices necessary to grow in our Christ-likeness.
This is done with others and includes recognizing each other’s
growth and encouraging it.
requires spiritual friendship, attention to spiritual disciplines and
intentional practices necessary to grow in our Christ-likeness.
This is done with others and includes recognizing each other’s
growth and encouraging it.
Community Focused: We exist for others
The means demonstrating a willingness to serve our
local community by actively seeking opportunities to come alongside others in practical ways and also assisting their
spiritual growth and personal development.
local community by actively seeking opportunities to come alongside others in practical ways and also assisting their
spiritual growth and personal development.
Statement of Faith
As members of the Advent Christian General Conference and affiliation with the National Association of Evangelicals, we affirm:
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21)
- We believe that that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Deuteronomy 6:14; Matthew 28:29)
- We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. (Philippians 2:6-11; 1 Peter 3:18; Prmans 5:9; Matthew 26:64)
- We believe that, for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential; that in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, the Christian is enabled to live a godly life by the indwelling Holy Spirit. (Titus 3:4-7; John 14:15-18; John 16:13; John 16:7-11)
- We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation. (1 Corinthians 15:10-23; John 5:28-29)
- We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 1:22-23; Acts 2:41-47)