Everything God makes is perfectly good. God made the universe, Earth, nature, and people. So, each of these is inherently good. Because of God’s authority and control, the universe is a good, orderly, and safe place; likewise, the Earth is a good place worth caring for. God made it and owns it, but he wants us to care for it. Simple.

The same goes for nature and people. Everything God created was created for a purpose and carries value. Everything.

Humanity, while made in God’s image and seeded with value, was also given freedom. We used our freedom to work against God, to try to become God, thus displacing him from his rightful place. Silly of course, but obviously true--just look around. God loves everything he created but we can hardly expect him to stand for us making a mess of things. Humanity introduced brokenness into the world, and God allowed it. To do otherwise would have gone against God’s desire to give humanity freedom.

Brokenness has cost us plenty. It wrecked our ability to relate with God. It introduced false religiosity, greed, and malice. Brokenness leads to self-indulgence and sin. Eventually, it pollutes peoples minds, fractures relationships, and abuses nature.

Thankfully, God did not leave us broken. He came to us personally. He became a man through a divine event. He was born into the world fully divine and fully human in the Person of Jesus. Jesus said that if we could see him, we would see the Father; that is, we could see God.

Observing Jesus tells us all we need to know about the nature of God. God is personal. He has personality. He laughs, cries, aches. Above all, he loves. He loves lavishly. He is completely trustworthy. All he lacks is anxiety.

Jesus was willing to do anything to redeem us from our brokenness. He sacrificed himself on a cross outside Jerusalem. A real event in a real place to solve a real problem for real people. His death makes redemption available.

Because of Christ’s sacrifice, people can be restored to a relationship with God. We can know him intimately and understand his plan to restore the world to the relationship it had with him before the brokenness came.

God wants to restore you, me, and every one of our neighbors to a relationship with him. He wants the world to live in peace. It begins with him calling to us, individually. When we answer, he redeems and restores. He fills us with the Holy Spirit, his presence. He comforts our brokenness, leads us into truth, and helps us plan for the future

We believe that God has always existed in Trinity. As a creative being, he always was, is and will be in perfect relationship and perfect love expressed in three persons we call Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is one true, good, and living God who is of one substance, power, and eternal purpose. He has no beginning or end. He created us--all of us. He came to us in the person of Jesus Christ with a mission to reveal himself to us. He lives today. He relates, comforts, draws, corrects, teaches, protects, and loves perfectly in the person of the Holy Spirit. He is fully competent and supremely authoritative. He is love and he is good.

We believe that God communicates to people. Anyone who calls on him will find him. Because all things are under his reign, God can communicate any way that he pleases. His most objective and common communication is the Bible.

We believe in churches as local gatherings of people united by common faith in Jesus Christ and committed to make their community a better place to live.