What We Believe
| 1. We believe God is good. |
| "Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed are those who take refuge in him." |
| Psalm 34:8 |
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"If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him." |
| Matthew 7:11 |
| "This is the message we have heard from Jesus and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." |
| 1 John 1:5 |
| 2. We believe God is all-powerful. |
| "I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?" |
| Jeremiah 32:27 |
| "Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With human beings this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.’" |
| Mark 10:27 |
| 3. We believe Jesus is God's Son and the Savior of the world. |
| "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." |
| John 3:16 |
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"Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." |
| John 20:30-31 |
| 4. We believe there is nothing more important than love. |
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"Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." |
| Matthew 22:37-40 |
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"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." |
| 1 John 4:7-8 |
| 5. We believe there is nothing more valuable than a human being. |
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"So God created human beings in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them…God saw all that he had made and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day" |
| Genesis 1:27,31 |
| "The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’" |
| Matthew 25:40 |