What we confess
The faith received, not reinvented.
We stand within historic Christian orthodoxy and the Wesleyan-Arminian tradition. These convictions are not a marketing profile. They tell us who God is, what Christ has done, what grace requires, and where history is going.
IScripture governs us
The Old and New Testaments are the inspired and trustworthy written authority for doctrine, worship, moral judgment, and Christian life. We preach Scripture passage by passage because the text must correct the preacher, the church, and the age.
IIThe Triune God
There is one true and living God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—holy, loving, sovereign, and worthy of all worship. Creation belongs to Him; truth is not ours to manufacture.
IIICreation, sin, and judgment
Human beings bear God’s image and possess real dignity. Sin disorders our loves, enslaves the will, wounds our neighbors, and brings death. Every earthly power and every human life remain accountable to God.
IVJesus Christ is Lord
Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. He lived without sin, died for sinners, rose bodily, reigns as King, intercedes for His people, and will come again. No rival allegiance may claim what belongs to Him.
VGrace that saves and transforms
Salvation is God’s gift. Prevenient grace awakens and enables our response; through repentance and faith we are justified, forgiven, adopted, and made alive in Christ. Grace is opposed to earning, not to obedient participation.
VIThe Spirit and holy love
The Holy Spirit convicts, regenerates, assures, empowers, and gives gifts for service. Sanctification is God’s continuing work by which disordered loves are healed and believers grow in entire devotion, responsible obedience, and love of God and neighbor.
VIIThe Church and its worship
The Church gathers to hear the Word, pray, worship, confess, encourage, serve, baptize, and share the Lord’s Supper. Baptism declares allegiance to Christ; Communion rehearses the costly grace by which His people live.
VIIIResurrection hope
Because Christ rose, fear and death do not receive the last word. Christ will return, the dead will be raised, evil will be judged, and the redeemed will share everlasting life in God’s renewed creation.
IXPersevering faith
Grace calls for a living, persevering trust. We reject both legalism, which tries to earn God’s favor, and permissiveness, which treats mercy as permission to remain unchanged.