We begin here, since it is through the special revelation of Scripture that God has chosen to make Himself known to His people by bearing witness to Jesus Christ. We believe the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments to be uniquely inspired by the Spirit through the creative agency of human authors writing across centuries, cultures, and genres. We therefore affirm Scripture as trustworthy and authoritative for teaching, formation, and salvation, and we receive it with gratitude as God’s gift to His church.

2 Timothy 3:16–17; Hebrews 1:1–3; 2 Peter 1:20–21; Luke 24:27; Psalm 19:7–11; John 5:39-40; John 17:17

Scripture reveals the creator and sustainer of the universe as one God in three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — distinct yet never divided. This isn’t small-print theological trivia; it’s the very heart of Christian faith. At the center of God’s eternal life is a communion of love, delight, and self-giving. This relational God is self-sufficient, all-knowing, all-powerful, and always present — and through Jesus Christ and the Spirit, He invites us to share in that divine fellowship.

Genesis 1:1–3; Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Luke 3:21-22; Ephesians 2:18

What comes to mind when you hear the word “God”? For many of us, the images we carry are cultural products — inherited assumptions, fears, or caricatures that can become a barrier to faith rather than a doorway into it. Scripture bears witness to one eternal Creator and Sustainer of all that exists. This God is not an impersonal force, nor an object within creation to be observed, measured, or controlled. God is both beyond us — infinite, holy, and ultimately beyond our capacity to fully comprehend — and yet profoundly with us: personal, attentive, compassionate, and even delighting in what He has made. When God’s heart broke for the Israelites suffering in Egypt and He moved to rescue them, Moses asked for God’s name — hoping, perhaps, for something concrete he could grasp or manage. God’s response was not a definition, but a declaration: “I will be who I will be.” God’s chosen name for Himself (YHWH) perfectly demonstrates the tension of our creaturely situation: we stand before a God beyond our grasp and beyond our control, and yet one who freely chooses to be our God. As Father, He creates not out of need but out of love — forming us with purpose, delighting in what He has made, and binding Himself to us in enduring faithfulness.

Genesis 1; Acts 17:24-28; Isaiah 55:8-9; Isaiah 40; Psalm 103; Exodus 3:1-15; Exodus 34:6-7; Genesis 17:7; Revelation 21:3

“Christ” isn’t a last name. It means anointed one — a title for God’s chosen King and Priest. Scripture reveals that Jesus fulfills these titles as the eternal Son through whom all things were made, the second person of the Trinity, who took on flesh and entered His own creation to redeem humanity, restore our broken world, and reveal the heart of God. All of Scripture points to Jesus — to His sinless life, His cross, His resurrection, and His promised return — as the culmination of God’s plan to unite Himself with His creation in abundant and eternal life marked by justice and righteousness. Following in His footsteps, we are privileged to bear His name and share in His ongoing ministry of redemption and restoration, all under the banner of God’s love.

John 1:1–14; Philippians 2:5–11; Colossians 1:15–22; Luke 4:16–21; Acts 2:22–36; 1 Peter 2:21–22; John 14:5–6; John 17:3

In Hebrew, the word for “spirit” also means “breath” and “wind.” Consider this: The air that surrounds us and the breath that sustains us becomes the Bible’s picture for God’s personal and abiding presence — the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity. The Spirit is God with us and within us, working with our weaknesses, drawing us by grace into repentance, guiding us into truth, forming Christ’s character in us, and growing in us His love for a broken world.

Genesis 1:2; John 14:16–17, 26; John 20:22; Acts 2:1-21; Romans 8:26–27; Galatians 5:22–25; Eph 1:13; John 16:12–15; 1 Corinthians 2:10–13

You were made for something important. Maybe you already know this — or maybe it’s been covered over, beaten down, eroded away, to the point it now feels hard to believe. Scripture tells us that the God who made everything sculpted humanity with specific intention: to represent Him, bearing His image, acting in partnership with His authority, and continuing to cultivate and expand His creation. To be human is to participate — to name, tend, build, imagine, and love — as God’s partners in the flourishing of the world. Eden wasn’t meant to be a paradise lost, but a model-home — the blueprint for what’s possible: an ever-expanding goodness, centered in relationship with our God. This is how our story began — and Scripture tells us this is how our story will end. You were made for something important: not loss, but resurrection; not abandonment, but reunion.

Jeremiah 1:5; Genesis 1:26–31; Genesis 2:19–20; Psalm 8:3–6; Mark 12:28-31; Micah 6:8; Ephesians 2:10; Romans 8:18–25; 1 Corinthians 15:42–49; Revelation 21:3; Revelation 22:1–5

God doesn’t make robots. He creates human beings with real freedom — the freedom required for genuine love, trust, creativity, and relationship. But that same freedom also carries risk. A calling meant for partnership can be turned away from trust and toward control. Scripture tells the story of humanity misdirecting its God-given freedom. This turning introduces rupture — separation from God, from one another, and from the life God gives. Scripture names this rupture sin, and its consequence is death.

What begins as a decisive break does not remain isolated. Over time, this rupture becomes the condition of the world we inhabit — a creation warped by misdirected freedom, marked by fear, injustice, decay, and death. We participate in it. We contribute to it. And we suffer under it. Sin is not simply rule-breaking; it is the warping of something good that has become universal. Because of this, we cannot restore ourselves or heal what has been broken. Yet even here, Scripture does not say that God abandons His image-bearers. Humanity remains precious, though wounded. The story of sin sets the stage not for rejection, but for restoration.

Genesis 3; Isaiah 53:6; Romans 3:23; Romans 1:21–25; Ephesians 2:1–3; Romans 6:20–23

In the Old Testament, God gave Israel a sacrificial system in which the death of a spotless lamb symbolized the cost of sin as well as a means of forgiveness. To modern ears this may sound barbaric—and in many ways it is. It’s also a visceral picture of the damage our sinful choices wreck on the world, and the precious cost of restoration. This is the backdrop into which Jesus Christ—the Son of God—enters our story. Each of the four Gospels (“good news”) describes something the world had never before seen: a sinless life. Jesus heals the broken, gathers the lost, comforts the hurting, and proclaims justice for the forgotten… and is brutally executed. He also, astonishingly, rises from the dead!

Taken together, Jesus’ death and resurrection reveal Him as the true Lamb of God whose sacrifice does not merely cover sin but breaks its power, bringing forgiveness, freedom, and restoration — the fulfillment of God’s redemptive purpose from the beginning. We were hopeless and helpless, and He gave His life in our place. In rising again, He conquered the final consequence of sin—death itself—and now offers abundant and eternal life to all who dare place their lives in His nail-pierced hands.

This life is received not through effort or religious performance, but through trusting Jesus Christ—turning toward Him in faith, confessing Him as Lord, and entrusting ourselves to His saving work.

John 1:29; Isaiah 53:4–6; Romans 5:6–11; Ephesians 2:4–9; 1 Corinthians 15:3–4, 20–22; Colossians 2:13–15; John 3:16–21 ; Romans 6:23 ; 1 Peter 2:24–25

Scripture describes the Church as the body of Christ — a living community formed not by perfection, but by grace. United to Jesus and animated by His Spirit, the Church is called to embody His ongoing ministry in the world: to bear witness to His love, to practice reconciliation, and to participate in God’s work of restoration.

And yet, we also speak honestly. Many people have been hurt, abused, or excluded under the banner of the Church — sometimes by leaders claiming to speak with the authority of God Himself. We believe this grief matters precisely because the Church belongs to Christ, not to us. It is His body, not our possession.

At its best, the Church is a community of diverse people, each with Spirit-given gifts, learning together how to live the love of Christ in tangible ways. We do not claim to have arrived. But we trust that Christ continues to gather, heal, and shape His people, harmonizing many voices into a shared witness to His grace.

1 Corinthians 12:12–27; Ephesians 4:1–16; Acts 2:42–47; 1 Peter 2:9–10; Matthew 28:18–20; 1 Peter 5:1–4

Baptism and communion are visible reminders of the incarnational shape of grace — signs that salvation is not merely believed, but embodied. These practices do not save us; they point us to the God who does, teaching us that grace takes form in bodies, communities, and everyday life. In communion, we remember the great cost of our redemption: the breaking of Christ’s body and the shedding of His blood, made tangible through bread and the cup. Baptism, rooted in ancient practices of cleansing and renewal, was reinterpreted by the early church as participation in Christ’s death and resurrection, and has been practiced ever since as a public sign of new life in Him and incorporation into His people. We hold these practices close to our hearts and continue to observe them with the reverence they deserve.

John 1:14; Luke 22:19–20; 1 Corinthians 11:23–26; John 6:53–58; Romans 6:3–4; Acts 2:38–41; Colossians 2:12

Having seen so many depictions of “heaven” as harps and clouds, you might be surprised to learn that Scripture does not end with an escape to the skies. Instead, it ends with the marriage of heaven and earth — with God descending to be united, once and for all, with a fully redeemed creation. In this promised future, sin is purged away, death and corruption are defeated, and all that has been broken is made whole. Just as Christ was raised bodily from the dead, all who are in Him will also be raised. The hope held before us is not escape from creation, but resurrection — renewed humanity, body and spirit reunited. In this renewal, creation itself is healed and made new, and God dwells with His people.

Scripture teaches that we are made for eternity — an eternal life lived in relationship with our God, not beginning someday, but here and now. As we repent, entrust our lives to Christ as Lord, and walk with His Spirit in the work of restoration, we are — by grace — being shaped into a new humanity. Scripture calls this sanctification: the lifelong journey of becoming more like Christ and being prepared for the world to come.

Still, God does not force our response. Love cannot be coerced. Scripture speaks soberly of the tragedy of rejecting God’s grace — a self-chosen separation from the Source of life and love. God’s desire, however, is not condemnation, but restoration: that none should perish, but that all should come to repentance and experience eternal life with their heavenly Father. To that end, we pray and labor, bearing witness to Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the transforming power of His Spirit, as we await the renewal of all things.

Matthew 28:18–20; 2 Corinthians 5:17–20; Romans 12:1–2; Galatians 5:16–26; 2 Corinthians 3:17–18; Revelation 21–22; Isaiah 65:17–25; Romans 8:18–25; 1 Corinthians 15; Philippians 3:20–21; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18; Matthew 25:31–46; John 3:17–21; 2 Peter 3:9