VISION: LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE, Living Out What We believe

The Great Commandment:
“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Mark 12:30-31

MISSION: MAKE DISCIPLES

The Great Commission:
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you…” Matthew 28:19-20. Disciples are people who experience the Great Commandment, loving God with all their beings, in a passionate, intimate relationship, and who extend that love to others. Disciples are people who live the Great Commission, teaching and leading others into such a relationship with the Lord, that they too experience the Great Commandment. From the Great Commandment, comes the Great Commission. The result of the Great Commission is the Great Commandment.

BELIEFS

Faith Church was established as a Christian fellowship of believers in Jesus Christ. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is fully God and fully man, born of the virgin Mary. He died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins; He bodily rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, where at the right hand of God, the Father, He is now our High Priest and Advocate.

Our supreme desire is to know Christ, be conformed into His image by the power of the Holy Spirit, and to walk out what we believe. We are not a denominational church, but do aspire to a Wesleyan doctrine of holiness.

WE BELIEVE that the true basis for Christian fellowship is God’s (Agape) love, which is greater than the differences we possess and without which we cannot claim to be Christians.

WE BELIEVE the Bible, God’s holy Word, is our foundation and standard for living; it is authoritative as the rule of faith.

WE BELIEVE worship is spiritual, and we seek to be flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.

WE BELIEVE that all the gifts of the Holy Spirit are still in use today and are used for the building up of God’s church and equipping believers to fulfill the great commission.

WE BELIEVE worship of God is fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives and the fruit of His Spirit (Acts 17:11) as evidence that we have truly been worshiping Him.