With Christians everywhere, we worship the only true God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – who is both one essence and three persons.

This Triune God created the world and is now working to restore and redeem the world, both for our good and His glory.

We believe God the Father is the author of Creation, and by his providence continues to govern all of Creation. We affirm that God created all things visible and invisible, and governs all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest events to the smallest, by his providence, according to his will.

We believe He created this world in love, charged humanity to be partners in filling all creation with His goodness, has always worked to rescue His rebellious children and fallen world, and will one day restore all that has been lost in humanity’s rebellion.

We believe that Jesus Christ is the Incarnation of God made real in history, who was born, lived, died, and rose again for the salvation of His people and the redemption of all things. Echoing believers throughout history, we believe that Jesus is truly God and truly human. He is the second person of the Trinity, being of one substance with the Father but also fully like us in every way but sin. He is eternally begotten of the Father, but also born of the virgin Mary. His glory fills heaven and earth, but was shown among us as a suffering servant: each glory seen most clearly on the cross.

Jesus Christ is indeed Immanuel, God-with-us, not one who used to be God, nor one who has merely been sent from God. Rather, in His coming we have seen God’s glory, for Jesus is the exact imprint of God’s very being and in Him the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. Jesus is neither a character from ancient history, because even today He reigns at the right hand of the Father in His resurrected body. The one who, for us and for our salvation, was born of Mary, died at Calvary, and walked with disciples to Emmaus is the same Jesus Christ who is now ascended and who will one day return visibly in the body to judge the living and the dead.

We believe the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, regenerates and sanctifies us through faith. Through the work of the Holy Spirit, we are convicted of sin, moved to repentance to seek God as our Father, and forever joined to the new life offered in Jesus. In the Spirit, we find ourselves recipients of a Great Exchange, trading our past life apart from God for a future united with Him, equipped and enabled to join in the work God is already doing for the good of this world and His glory.

We believe the present disordered state of the world is the result of humanity’s free, sinful rebellion against God’s will. No part of human life is untouched by sin. Our desires are no longer trustworthy guides to goodness, and what seems natural to us no longer corresponds to God’s design.

However, we also believe that God, in Jesus and through the Holy Spirit, desires to restore the world according to His grace and mercy. In faith, we do not despair at the brokenness in ourselves, families and friends, or the world at large. Our God has already begun to make things right.

We believe that progress in holiness is an expected response to the grace of God. Spiritual formation - the process of becoming increasingly devoted disciples of Jesus Christ, slowly reflecting His character and purposes in this world - is a core task of every church. We approach this transformation with intentional awareness and effort, because our own restoration signals to the world that God is still living and active, moving in and through His people.

Our faith is not a matter of intellectual assent, but an embodied act of faith by which we announce to the world our membership into God’s family. Our character, identity, behavior, and actions serve as witness to the goodness of the Savior who still moves with purpose through His children.

We believe that faith in Jesus is the only way by which those apart from God become God’s children. Although sin condemns us, God’s grace covers us through the actions of Jesus on the cross, and helps us to live again through the power of the empty tomb. Through this free act of mercy (not receiving the death we deserve) and grace (receiving the new life offered to us in Jesus), we are free to become new creations, faithfully obey the commands of our Lord, and reflect His love to a lost world.

The Church is the covenant community of God through which God’s grace is extended to all people. In Jesus, we are adopted into the family of God and find our new identity as brothers and sisters of one another. Within the covenant community of the church, God’s grace is extended through the preaching of the Word, the administration of the Sacraments, and the faithful practice of spiritual formation and mutual discipline.

Every Christian is called to a prophetic life, proclaiming the good news to the world and embodying that good news as people of light and love. As we worship the Lord of love and truth, we are called to grow more like Him together.

The clearest declaration of God’s glory is found in His Word, first incarnate in Jesus and then revealed through Scripture. The Son eternally proceeds from the Father as His Word, the full expression of the Father’s nature, and in the incarnation the Word became flesh, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are offered to His disciples. The written Word grants us those

treasures, proclaims the saving gospel of Jesus Christ, and graciously teaches all that is

necessary for faith and life.

We believe the Bible is the authoritative self-revelation of God. We glorify God by recognizing and receiving his authoritative self-revelation in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, which all point to the character of God, which we know best through the Son.

As believers, we are subject always and primarily to God’s Word as revealed in Jesus Christ through the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. But we are also joyfully captive to the Word that has revealed itself through time and across the nations.

In particular, we affirm the secondary authority of the Nicene Creed, the Apostle’s Creed, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Westminster Confession, the Westminster Shorter and Westminster Catechisms, and the Theological Declaration of Barmen.

In our church, we believe God calls both His sons and daughters to proclaim His love and participate in His redeeming work to the world. In this, we explicitly affirm that men and women alike are called to all the ministries of the church, including the role of pastor, elder, and deacon. The gifts of both men and women are celebrated here, because we believe God values and cherishes everyone who makes His Son known to our broken world.