BELIEFS
Our Origin
Before this universe was ever created, God desired an expansion of His family who would share His goodness and experience the security, love, and unified fellowship that exists between The Father, The Son, and The Spirit. Adam and Eve were the first people He created and they, like us, faced a choice to embrace God’s way of peace or experience the chaos of forging our own way.
The Great Turning Away
Adam and Eve chose their own way, and in doing so, they exchanged the beautiful, ordered world of the Kingdom of God for the chaos of the dominion of darkness. Where there had been peace and safety, there was now blame, fear, guilt, shame, anxiety, sickness, death, and all forms of darkness that manifested.
Hope Renewed
Throughout the generations to follow, God never stopped revealing Himself to mankind while laying the groundwork for His great rescue. Jesus, the Son of God, left the perfect peace of Heaven to take on human form and become like us. Instead of the grandeur of an earthly palace, The High King of Heaven was born into a place of total obscurity, with no earthly power or credentials, to show us a better way.
A New Door is Opened
Through His life, death, burial, and resurrection, a doorway back into the Kingdom family was opened and could never again be shut. Although we were dead spiritually due to our rebellious choices, Jesus made it possible for us to put our trust in Him and choose to live as sons of God, just as He had always intended.
A New Kind of Life is Made Possible
By choosing to die on a Roman cross, His shed blood paid the price for our sins and by rising from the dead, He delivered us from the power that sin had over us. The good news does not stop there: we have hope of complete redemption, as one day, even the very presence of sin will itself be destroyed. He allowed the might of Rome and their temporal Kingdom to put Him to death, only to rise again and reestablish His everlasting Kingdom on Earth for us to enjoy now and forevermore.
A New Kind of Community is created
To further His plan, the resurrected Son sent The Holy Spirit to be present in us and empower us to do the will of The Father, just as He did when He was on the earth. He commissioned His earliest disciples to implement a new community infrastructure (the church) to be the expression of His Family Fellowship on Earth. He refers to the whole Church as His “body,” with Him as the head of this expanding community and the center of life for it all. The local expression of His body throughout the whole earth is the very heart of how God plans for us to grow and be fruitful as His children.
Meaning In All Things
From the very beginning, God designed all our activities and work to function as acts of worship. Every act, no matter how small, has purpose and value to Him when done with Him and through His strength. This is why He gives us spiritual gifts and why we learn to integrate all areas of our life into our life with God.
Our Future is now
His Kingdom will come one day in all its glory, and His will shall be done here on earth, just as it happens in Heaven. However, God’s vision for His Family Fellowship is a now reality, and we are invited to participate fully as we lean into His leadership and choose His way of Life.