We believe the Bible, God's inspired word, tells one unified story that is Good News to a world that needs it.

CREATION & FALL

  • The Triune God (Father, Son, Spirit) created a paradise to live in harmony with mankind, the pinnacle of his creation (Genesis 1-2).
  • Mankind, unwilling to accept God's kingship, rebelled in disobedience causing sin, death, and suffering to enter God's perfect creation. These consequences led to broken relationship with God, others, and all of creation (Genesis 3). 
  • Mankind spiraled out of control into a world of evil, violence, and suffering (Genesis 4-11).

PROMISE

  • Unwilling to give up on His original plan to live in harmony with mankind, God enacted a plan to set all things right by choosing the family of Abraham to bless the whole world and making a covenant with them (Genesis 12-15).
  • God's chosen people, however, did not keep God's covenant. They did not bless the whole world. They failed miserably over-and-over again (Genesis - Malachi).

MESSIAH

  • Knowing the brokenness of mankind, God took matters into his own hands to fulfill his promise to Abraham that his family would bless the whole world. God left heaven to become a man, born into the family of Abraham. His name was Jesus (John 1:1-18).  
  • The problems of sin, death, and suffering had to be dealt with, so Jesus showed the world that those things have no power in his kingdom. He forgave sins (Mark 2:1-12). He displayed power over death by bringing the dead back to life (John 11). He fought against the kingdom of evil by casting out demons (Mark 5:1-20). He displayed power over all of creation, proving he was truly King (Matthew 14:22-23).
  • By his grace and mercy Jesus confronted these powers of evil once and for all by dying on a cross in the place of mankind, being buried for three days, and being resurrected on the third day, leaving the powers of evil in the grave (Luke 23-24; 1 Corinthians 15).
  • This was his ultimate act of love, that even though we rebelled against him, even though we brought this evil into the world, he took the punishment we deserved in order to bring us back into right relationship with God, each other, and all creation (Romans 5:1-11).

​NEW CREATION

  • Jesus calls on us to rebel against the kingdom of evil we chose when we decided to sin by re-enacting his final battle against sin, death, and suffering. He calls us to trust that his kingdom, his way is the way God originally designed us to be (Mark 1:14-15). And then he calls us to turn away from our lives of selfishness and evil by taking up our cross and dying symbolically with him (Acts 3:19-26). Next, we are to follow him to the grave by being baptized in water for the remission of our sins, rising up from the water a new creation in Christ (Romans 6:3-4) (​2 Corinthians 5:17).
  • As a new creation, God comes to live inside us through his Spirit (Acts 2:38). He promises, if we will let him have reign over our lives, to mold us into his image, what we were originally supposed to be (2 Corinthians 3:18). In doing this, God empowers us to fulfill our original calling: Love God and love others (Matthew 22:37-40).
  • One day Jesus will return and renew all things the same way he has renewed those who have been saved by him (Revelation 21). At that time he will have fulfilled his promise to Abraham to set right what has gone wrong. In the meantime, he asks us to live our lives, in response to his great mercy, as living sacrifices for him (Romans 12:1). We should live every day loving him and others, telling and showing the world that Christ's Kingdom is greater than the kingdom of evil, and that they can experience this good news that Jesus is the answer to all their problems if they will follow him.
  • We gather every week on Sunday morning to praise and honor Jesus for this good news. We would love to see you this Sunday at 9:30 AM.