JESUS

Our Vision

Our Mission

Holy Spirit

Obligation to Love One Another

“Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God…”
1 John 4:2.

Acknowledging that Jesus is God in the flesh is a non-negotiable truth. Every true believer must believe that “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Our membership statement is: “I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and my Lord and Savior.” We believe that mankind “fell” because of sin and that the Son, Jesus Christ, was sent to redeem us. Jesus was fully human and fully God.

A church without walls releasing the kingdom of God by carrying the light of Christ into the darkness.

Partnering to display the power and love of Christ through transformed lives at home and around the world.

“…the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world,”
1 John 4:4.

The Holy Spirit is our teacher, counselor and guide. He is placed in the heart of every obedient believer as a gift of God. Orthodox teaching includes instruction about this Person who dwells in our hearts, providing comfort, conviction and inspiration to serve Jesus. The Holy Spirit manifests Himself in our lives as we display the character of Jesus and the power to overcome sin.

John uses seven verses to describe the doctrinal foundations of the faith, and fourteen verses to emphasize the importance of love. It is possible for us to be completely orthodox in the doctrinal content of our teaching and still be false teachers, if we aren’t practicing love! “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal…the greatest of these is love,” I Corinthians 13:1,13. In other words, to espouse the teaching of Christ without the love of Christ is heresy! “The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk,” I Timothy 1:5-6.

Some groups deal with truth as though all truths were equal in importance and impact; as though truth were like dominoes—knock one over and they all fall down! This is legalism—dependence upon our correctness doctrinally or morally-works-for salvation. Jesus taught that truths are not all equal. He told the Pharisees that they had “left undone the weightier matters” of truth and justice. Jesus dealt with truth like a target. A target has a “bull’s-eye” and rings that grow larger as you proceed outward from center. The “bull’s-eye” of Christian teaching is the identity of Jesus and His death, burial and resurrection. The indwelling of God’s Spirit, the authority of Scripture, and the necessity of love are “inner ring” issues. Many other issues are matters of truth. Our desire and intent should be to believe and practice the truth in every area of our lives, tempered with the fact that our relationship with God is not based on our accuracy, either morally or doctrinally.

“But because of his great love for us, God who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast,” Ephesians 2:4-9.