What we believe about God: God is, He is the creator of all that is, He rules, knows, and cares, He is able to do anything He chooses, He alone is God and shares his reign with no one, and He reveals His will to those seeking to follow!

Exodus 3:113-15, Genesis 1:1-31, John 1:1-3, Psalms 115:3, Romans 9:21, Proverbs 16:9, Luke 1:37, Acts 7:49

It is the only accurate and authoritative record of God's nature, His actions, and His message to humanity.It is the only accurate and trustworthy account of God's interactions with humanity. God uses it to actively communicate with us today, in our situations and in our culture; through our reading, study, and personal application of the Bible. The Bible is our sole authority concerning all things moral and ethical. It is our guidebook for life. It is all sufficient as our only means of instruction for living our lives in a God honoring manner. All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in his righteousness. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. Study this Book of Instruction continually, Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. For whatever is written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

1 Peter 1:10-12, 2 Peter 1:19-21. 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Joshua 1:8, Romans 15:4

In a word...respond. Respond to God's offer of forgiveness, reconnection, and relationship. Since we are incapable of solving our problem and since Jesus Christ provided the full and complete solution and since His solution is offered to any who want it, regardless of rank, stature, health, wealth, privilege, lifestyle, parentage, race, nationality, culture, sexual preference, political affiliation, personal appearance, or societal significance. Then, man's only need is to ask that God's solution be applied individually to our lives, A gift that is offered is just that...offered, until it is personally received and taken into possession. The same is true for God's gift to us... we simply need to receive it for ourselves. Receiving God's solution to our problem involves these elements: acknowledging that you have failed to meet God's requirements and you are separated from Him. Realizing that you cannot meet God's requirements, regardless of intent or effort on your part. You cannot be good enough to restore the relationship and please God. Voicing your desire to have a restored relationship with your creator. Understanding that your only hope of a restored relationship with God rests in what Jesus did for you on the Cross. Asking Jesus for (to take possession of) the free gift that He offers which results in your forgiveness and reconnection with God. Giving up control and asking Jesus to be the leader of your life from here on. Expressing your desire to be the person that He created. Expressing your desire to please Him by your trust, actions, and attitude. Offering your life to Him as gratitude for Him offering His life for you. Loving Him, and loving those who need to find the same hope, reconnection, and relationship with God that you now have. A relationship that s not based on what we do for God, but because of what God did for us through Jesus.

1 John 1:9, John; 1:12, 5:24, 20:31, Acts 16:31, Luke 24:47, Acts; 2:38, 3:19, Romans 2:4, 2 Corinthians 7:10, Romans 10:9, Colossians 2:12,

1 Peter 3:21- 22

Since we are incapable of bridging the broken relationship with our Creator from our side of the separation, the only hope for us is that the Creator provides a solution from His side. Christians refer to this solution as the "Gospel" which means "good news." The "good news" is that God addressed the problem of sin by sending His son, Jesus to be the solution. We believe that Jesus was the complete embodiment of God and completely human. In other words, He was fully God and fully human. We believe that He experienced humanity fully (our hurt, our hunger, our feelings, our temptations, our desires, our joys, and our sorrows), He became one of us. He did what we could not, Jesus completely obeyed God, His father, that He fully trusted God, His father, and that He totally loved God, His father. Therefore, we believe that Jesus lived a fully human life without failure or sin, Jesus fully exceeded God's standards and embodied God's values. God was completely pleased and satisfied with Him. In addition to Jesus living a life without fault and meeting all of God's expectations, He choose to offer Himself and His life as a substitution for us (Substitutionary Atonement). Jesus who has no faults or failing, who met every expectation of God for humanity, freely offered Himself to be our substitution and receive our judgement (spiritual separation and physical death) from God. In essence, we believe that Jesus was willing to insert Himself in our place and experience the consequences of OUR sin. By doing so, He releases us from the ultimate consequences of our sin and flawed nature, we had a debt we could not pay. And because of His love for God and us, He paid a debt He did not owe.

John 1:14, John 1:29, Romans 3:23, Romans 3:10, Romans 5:12, Romans 6:23, Romans 5:8, Romans 8:38-39, Romans 10:9-10, Romans 10:13,17,

John 3:16-17, Matthew 19:25-26, Philippians 3:4-11, Revelation 22:17

Sin's final result has both spiritual and physical consequences. It results in our separation from God and our destruction, spiritually through separation from God forever (in this life and the next, remember we were created for eternity) and physically through death in this life, Therefore we are flawed creation designed for relationship with our Creator but incapable of such and unable, on our own, to fix our problem. We know in our soul that there is something else, something wrong, we have longings that cannot be filled by any human relationship, any purchased possession, and any pleasure that life has to offer. We either long for reconnection through a restored relationship with our Creator or we seek to deny the problem and rationalize to our own deception, that there is no problem. We even become angry with God because there is a problem. Those efforts are evident in our search for meaning, peace, and "work hard to be good" religions, or they are evident in our denial of God's existence. Ultimately, all our attempts by our own power fail, e seek other things as solutions only to find hollow substitutes. We long to fill the God-shaped void in our souls, only to remain empty, detached, alone, and wanting.

Matthew 18:6-9, Matthew 25:31-46, 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10, Hebrews 9:27

We believe that we are incapable through our own will and initiative of required obedience, trust and reciprocal love. The Bible calls this problem sin. Sin is the failure of humanity to live life by God's standards and values. Sin is visible by our actions, choices, and attitudes but the problem is much deeper than that. The problem we face is not that we sin, but that we are sinners. We are not sinners because we do these things, rather we do these things because we are sinners. Understanding this is very important. It is not what we do that makes us what we are, Rather, it is what we are that makes us do what we do. Sin is a part of our nature, reaching to the core of our being. Knowing this, the solution is not found in changing what we do, but changing who we are. This is beyond our ability to do. Can the leopard change his spots? Sin is a fatal flaw in all of us, we cannot do anything by ourselves, in our own power, to overcome it or correct it.

Romans 3:9-20,23, Romans 6:23, Isaiah 59:1-2

The term used of all Christ followers and also referred to as the corporate expression of a localized group of Christ followers who meet together for encouragement, worship, biblical instruction, and organized ministry and service to others. The church is the most powerful force on earth because it empowered and commissioned by God for His purpose. The church is designed to be a functioning body of Christ on earth and as such, the hope of the world.

Hebrews 10:25, Matthew 18:20, Colossians 3:16, Acts 2:42, Acts 9:31-32, Romans 16:5, 1 Corinthians 1:2, 1 Thessalonians 1:1, 1 Corinthians 16:19, Ephesians 4:4-7, Ephesians 12:23, 1 Corinthians 12:12-27, 2 Corinthians 16:18

He is God, our comforter and encourager. He reminds us of God's work and words, reminds us of whose we are and how we should live our lives. He is the indwelling presence of God in our lives. He is God's down payment of eternity and our promise that what God starts in us, He is able to finish.

Isaiah 43:15, 1 Timothy 1:17, 2 Corinthians 1:3-5, Ezekiel 36:16-17,

1 Corinthians 3:16, 2 Timothy 1:14