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CORE VALUES
Here's What We Value as a Church
The core values of any organization reflects who it is and what it believes.
Embrace Both Truth and Mystery
By remembering that we live between Christ’s first coming and second coming and even in that tension we wait in resurrection hope.
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Embody Jesus in Kingdom Ministry
By remembering that Jesus sends us into the world as he was sent, and he invites us to participate in God’s redemptive work.
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Celebrate the Good of God’s Creation
By remembering that God’s good creation (Genesis 1) comes before the fall (Genesis 3), and therefore we can view all of creation in light of God’s declaration that it is “good.”
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Make and Form Disciples in Everyday Spaces of Life
By remembering that in Jesus’s first advent, he did not remain in heaven to teach from afar, but he came into our world to dwell among us.
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Extend the Joy of the First and Second Advent
By remembering that we live between Christ’s first coming and second coming, and even in that tension, we wait in resurrection hope.
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CORE VALUES
Here's What We Value as a Church
The core values of any organization reflects who it is and what it believes.
CHARACTERISTICS
Our Church Culture
Though every church shares the essentials of the Christian faith in common, each local church has distinct characteristics, a culture.
BELIEFS
Our Church's Statement of Faith
While the Bible is our only infallible rule of faith and practice, we are also committed—and accountable—to a specific statement of faith that represents a summary of the teaching of Holy Scripture.
In addition, we joyfully affirm our unity with the Christ’s one church across all times and places by affirming the historic Apostles’ Creed, which has served as a unifying confession of the Christian faith from the earliest centuries of the Church:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell*. The third day He arose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church**, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
* Christ’s ‘descent into hell’ occurred in His death and burial, the Father’s wrath toward sin being poured out on him in our place, so we would never have to taste His wrath.
** By ‘catholic,’ we mean the universal church made up of all Christians who are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Apostles' Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:
Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He arose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.
Nicene Creed
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.
Who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.
And I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
