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About Us
Thanks again for visiting our website! If you spend any amount of time with us, you'll soon discover that these are just some of the things we're passionate about:
Expository Preaching:
As a church, we have a responsibility to preach the word of God—all of it. In order to understand it best, we need to make our way through the Bible systematically. It's just like reading any other book. Words are understood within sentences. Sentences are understood within paragraphs. Paragraphs are understood within chapters. And so on.
The systematic approach towards the Bible is called expository preaching. Pick a Bible book. Start at the beginning and preach through the verses in that book until you’ve reached the end. This method treats the Bible with the respect and intellectual weight it deserves. And it gives believers what they long for: the pure milk of God's word, in all its fullness. Once you’ve heard it, you might wonder where it's been your whole life.
God-Centered Worship:
Through the gospel, God is making people true worshippers – people who understand the amazing grace that God has provided through Jesus Christ alone. A person who comes to Christ comes to understand just how great God really is, and true worship from the heart is the result.
This means that worship can include a wide variety of feelings and activities, so long as they are an honest response to God's truth. As a church, we're committed to public worship that is filled with that truth, in our songs, prayers, and everything else we do. But also importantly, we're committed to promoting private times of worship for all believers.
Relational Honesty and Intimacy:
Our tendency as human beings is to hide our sin. We don't want to share our struggles and problems with others. But the fact is that everyone struggles with sin, and everyone has problems in their lives. But it can still be hard to admit.
We want to be a place where we admit it. The church is meant to be a hospital for sinners like us. Christ designed the church to be the place where Christians go for help, strength, and encouragement as they follow him. And he meant for that to occur through relationships in a community of believers.
We're striving to be such a community: a community where we're open and honest about our lives; a community where we receive help and offer help to those in need; a community where we can fight our sin together. We want to be a community where people are accountable to others and aren't getting left behind. And we want this to be woven into the fabric of our church life.
Small Groups are one of the places where we particularly try to make this happen.
A Concern For Justice:
Jesus' ministry on earth began the process of reversing all of the effects of sin, which has affected humanity in its entirety. The result is all forms of conflict, injustice, and poverty. When Jesus came, he preached the good news of his kingdom. He began the process of reversing the effects of sin in all its forms. Not only did Jesus preach truth, but he healed sickness, fed the hungry, and met all forms of needs. He showed what life is like in his kingdom, which we experience through the gospel.
This is why we have a mercy ministry. It's our chance to realize the gospel fully. By helping people in whatever needs they have, we get to demonstrate holistically what life can be like through Christ's redemption.
Learn more about mercy ministry
This is just a taste of some of the things we're passionate about. To get a more complete picture, take a look at our Mission & Values page.
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