What We Believe
- God is real.
- God is bigger and better and closer than we can imagine.
- God is eternally alive and at work, constantly and continually creating.
- God is love.
- The Bible is God's Word and the story of God's ongoing conversation with humanity.
- From the beginning of time, God has sought to gather us all in as one.
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Jesus is the Son of God, our Savior, and teaches us what a life of faith looks like.
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Holy Spirit bears our thoughts, our sighs too deep for words, to God.
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The single, defining truth of Christianity is God's radical forgiveness at Easter.
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Grace is from God. It is God's gift to us. We cannot earn it.
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Faith is our response to God. Faith is not knowledge, it is belief.
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Good and evil are real. God asks us to continually choose good over evil.
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We are meant to help one another.
- The church was Jesus' idea. It exists to carry on the work, the message and the love he began.
- We can become more like Jesus.
- We are guided by scripture, faith, reason and tradition.
- Jesus is coming again.