What we believe, in full.

We believe we live under the new covenant of grace. "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17). The old covenant came through a servant. Grace came through the Son.

Look at how each one opened. Moses' first miracle turned water into blood, and it ended in death. Jesus' first miracle turned water into wine, and it ended in a celebration. The letter kills. The Spirit gives life (2 Corinthians 3:6).

The law is man-centered — it measures what you must accomplish. Grace is Jesus-centered — it announces what He already accomplished. Under the law, your disobedience disqualifies you. Under grace, His obedience qualifies you. Under the law, you're made righteous when you do right. Under grace, you're made righteous when you believe right (Romans 4:3-8).

Under the law, God said He would by no means clear the guilty. Under grace, He says something that should stop you in your tracks: "their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more" (Hebrews 8:12).

We hold the Ten Commandments in the highest honor. They are holy, just, and good — and they are so unbending in their standard that Scripture flatly says no one is justified by them (Galatians 3:11). That's the point of them. They were never a ladder. They were a mirror.

And here's what we've watched happen for years: true grace produces true holiness. A person who has been genuinely wrecked by the love of God doesn't go looking for permission to sin — they go looking for the exit. The law can tell a man not to commit adultery, and he can obey it outwardly while loving no one. Grace goes further down. It teaches him to love his wife the way Christ loved the church. That's not behavior modification. That's transformation, and only the cross produces it.

Zacchaeus is the proof. Nobody commanded him to give half of everything away. He'd just met Jesus.

We believe sin separated us from a holy God, and the wage of sin is death. But that verse doesn't end there — "the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23).

We believe grace is not a license to sin. It never was. Anyone claiming grace as cover for whatever they feel like doing has not understood the gospel and does not speak for this church. Scripture is direct about it: the grace of God teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts (Titus 2:11-12). Grace is a teacher, not an excuse.

We believe sin carries destructive consequences — but those consequences are the wreckage sin causes, not punishment from God against His own children. If you put your hand in a fire, the burn isn't the Father's discipline. It's the fire.

And we believe sin loses its grip precisely where grace is preached loudest. "Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace" (Romans 6:14). We have seen people walk free from addiction, pornography, and despair — not because they were shamed harder, but because they finally believed they were loved.

We believe in repentance, and we believe most people have been handed the wrong definition of it.

The Greek word is metanoia. It means a change of mind. Not a performance. Not a quota of tears. A person can weep bitterly and still walk out unchanged, because sorrow was never the thing that set anybody free.

True repentance is a change of mind that turns back toward grace with a fresh revelation of the cross (2 Corinthians 7:9-10). If you've fallen — and you will — the instinct that damns you is to run from Jesus. The instinct that saves you is to run to Him. He is not the prosecutor. He's the answer.

We believe that the moment you received Jesus you were forgiven, cleansed, made righteous, and sanctified — finished, past tense (Hebrews 10:10).

We also believe the working out of that in your actual life is a process. You cannot become more righteous than you already are. You can absolutely become more holy in how you live. Hebrews says it in one breath: we are "being sanctified" even though we have been "perfected forever" (Hebrews 10:14). Both are true. Position is settled. Practice is growing.

And we say this plainly: we are wary of any counterfeit "grace teaching" that shrugs at behavior, discipline, or correction. Forgiveness isn't the enemy of right living. It's the fuel for it.

But the Lord does not correct His children with car accidents, cancer, or catastrophe. "For the Lord corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights" (Proverbs 3:12 NLT). Read that word: delights.

We believe the Holy Spirit is our Comforter, sent to guide us in every area of life (John 14:26). We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of praying in the Spirit (Acts 2:1-4). We believe in the gifts of the Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:7-11, Galatians 5:22-23).

We believe God still heals. We believe nothing is impossible for Him — not the diagnosis, not the marriage, not the bankruptcy, not the addiction, not the collapse.

We're not speculating about this. Our church was founded by two people whose life was coming down on top of them, and God got underneath it. That's not a doctrine we adopted. It's a thing that happened.

Luke 1:37 · Matthew 19:26 · Jeremiah 32:27 · Isaiah 53:5

We believe your heavenly Father wants to provide for you, the same way you want to provide for your own kids. Jesus said it Himself — stop worrying about what you'll eat, drink, or wear, "for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things" (Matthew 6:31-32).

And we believe He does not want His children consumed by materialism or obsessed with money. Paul was blunt with Timothy: godliness with contentment is great gain, and the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:6-11).

So let us be clear about what we are not. We do not preach the prosperity gospel. We do not teach that every believer will be wealthy. We do not advocate greed, materialism, or the love of money. Blessing is holistic, not just financial, and it starts with a prospering soul (3 John 1:2).

What we do believe is that people who have been touched by grace become generous people — with their time, their energy, and their money. Not because they were pressured. Because they were given to first. Blessed to be a blessing (Genesis 12:3, 2 Corinthians 9:8).

We believe communion commemorates the Lord's death and we take it in remembrance of Him (1 Corinthians 11:24-25). The word eucharistia means thanksgiving — and that's what we're doing.

"He was wounded for our transgressions... and by His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5). When we take the bread, we remember a body broken so ours could be whole. When we take the cup, we remember blood shed so our sins could be gone — all of them, permanently.

We believe in taking it often, the way the early church did — together, and from house to house (Acts 2:42, 2:46). And we believe in taking it worthily, which does not mean taking it while you feel worthy. It means taking it with your faith fixed on His finished work instead of on your own performance. If you had to be worthy, nobody would ever eat.

On the essentials — who Jesus is, what the cross accomplished, the truth of Scripture, the freeness of grace — we don't budge. On the disputable things Christians have argued over for centuries, you have liberty, and so does the person next to you. Paul's instruction was to stop judging each other's servants and start looking out for each other's good. In the essentials, unity. In the non-essentials, liberty. In everything, love.

Romans 14:1-22 · 1 Corinthians 10:23-24 · 1 Corinthians 12:12 · Ephesians 4:3

We believe we are called to carry the good news of the gospel of grace to every nation (Acts 20:24) — and that the fastest road to the nations now runs through a device in your pocket.