We want to be God-exalting in all we do as a church. You will sense this in the air when you come to worship on Sunday mornings. Church is about God, not us!  We live and worship before an audience of One!  And it isn’t me. Nor is it you. Welcome to the church that is not about you or me!  Welcome to the Church that is about God! 

When we come together in worship, we come to God through Christ. God is glorified when His people exalt His Son by centering their praise and adoration on Christ. Our praise as a congregation celebrates who Christ is (His person) and what He has accomplished in redemption (His work). Our prayers are offered to the Father in Christ’s name. Our hearts are shaped and formed into Christ-likeness as we hear and respond to the preaching of God’s Word. Our resources are freely offered to build Christ’s body and to advance His name around the world. Everything we do as a congregation is centered on Jesus Christ – our Lord and Savior! 

The Living Word (Jesus Christ – John 1:1) is revealed in the written Word (Scripture – Hebrews 1:1-3). This means that exalting God by centering our lives and worship on Christ can only be accomplished through God’s Word. For this reason, the Bible governs all that we do and say in worship. Every part of our corporate worship on Sunday mornings is saturated with God’s Word. We sing the truths of Scripture. We pray the words of Scripture. We listen to the careful explanation and life application of Scripture. Everything rests on, revolves around, and is permeated with God’s Word. Christ told His Church to “speak the truth in love so that we could grow into Christ-likeness” (Ephesians 4:15). The way God intends for us to do this is for us to come together as a body to sing, pray, and hear God’s Word. We are richly blessed each time we do, and we hope you will be as well! 

The Gospel is the simple, powerful, and profound message by which God offers sinful people eternal life!  It is simple because it is offered to anyone who will repent of his/her sins and place faith and trust in the work Jesus accomplished for them on the Cross (Acts 2:38, 3:19; 17:30). It is powerful because it accomplishes a salvation from God’s wrath that no human effort or work could ever accomplish (Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5). It is profound because in every way it originates with God, the offended party and not man, the guilty party (2 Corinthians 4:3-6; 2 Peter 3:9). Left to our own devices, we would never seek God (Romans 3:11). God, on the other hand, was pleased to send His Son to seek and to save lost sinners (Luke 19:10). God has made salvation freely available to all men who will believe on His Son (John 3:16). That Son, Jesus Christ, commanded His followers to take that offer to the entire world (Matthew 28:18-20). As a church, we want to make His last command our first concern!  We want to go wherever the gospel isn’t with the message that Salvation is only of the Lord (Jonah 2:9; Daniel 9:9). 

Jesus told His followers, “Without Me, you can do nothing.”  He went on to explain that after His return to His Father in Heaven, He would send a Comforter to be with them in His absence. That Comforter is the Holy Spirit (John 14:26). The word “comforter” means to strengthen or encourage and it speaks of the empowerment that is available to each believer who orders His life according to what the Holy Spirit inspired in the written Word of God (Ephesians 5:15-21; Colossians 3:16-17; Galatians 5:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21). By God’s grace, we desire to be such a people for the Lord!  We want our words and deeds to please the indwelling Holy Spirit Who hears and sees our daily living (Ephesians 4:29-32). We desire to walk in obedience to His Word (Galatians 5:16). We desire to reflect His fruit as evidence of His presence in our lives (Galatians 5:22-25). In short, we want to glorify God in all that we do (1 Corinthians 10:31), and this requires that we submit to the Spirit’s instruction preserved and articulated in the Scripture (1 Thessalonians 5:19). 

Grace is undeserved favor from God that saves us from the penalty of our sins (2 Corinthians 8:9; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-9). But it is more. Much more!  Grace transforms our lives first by instructing us and then by enabling us to be more like Christ and less like the fallen world around us (Titus 2:11-15). Apart from God’s unmerited grace we would never be able to obtain forgiveness. Apart from God’s enabling grace we will never be able to live as forgiven people!  Grace permeates our life as a church, and we hope you will be richly blessed as you become part of a community of believers who are passionate about God’s grace!  We desperately need it daily!  We desire to be transformed by its teaching. We depend on its enablement to live daily as obedient followers of Christ!  And we want to extend that grace to you!