Because Christ is the Redeemer . . .

He is worthy of our love. We love Him more than any other. This is His church and we want to love, honor, and serve Him in all that we do.

He is the source of our hope. We want our hope to be firmly grounded on the promises of God and not our vain imaginings.

He is the object of our faith. We believe that faith in Jesus Christ should permeate all aspects in life. We believe that the gospel is central to all that we do.

He is the only One who can save us. Therefore, we run to Him with our every care, need, and joy in constant prayer.

He commands us to worship Him, and He meets us there. Therefore, we see the Sunday gathered worship of God as the pinnacle of the week. We seek to engage in God-centered, celebrative worship services.

Because He has Redeemed us as part of a larger community of faith . . .

We rejoice in reading His story of our collective redemption in God's Word, the Bible. We need to understand it and see how it applies to our lives for real growth in grace.

We understand that He has not just redeemed us individually, but we are a part of His people universally and we stand in the tradition of the Christian community's historic creeds and confessions.

We want to give others what we have freely received ourselves, so we offer Christ's love to one another and others in a gracious and winsome way.

We recognize that we need one another. As a church we value our brothers and sisters as fellow heirs and rejoice that Christ is using them and the gifts He has entrusted to them to help accomplish His plans for us.

We confess our continuing dependence on Him and His church. We are all needy people wrestling with the on-going effects of sin and we must be honest with God, one another, and ourselves about our need for Christ's work in our lives.

We realize that God created families for the nurture and admonition of children in the ways of the Lord. We want to assist Moms and Dads in this overwhelming task and take seriously our vows at the baptisms of our covenant children.

We understand that we are only part of the Church, so we will seek to partner with other believers in Christ to extend His Kingdom.

Because the World Needs Redemption . . .

We know that Christ has called us to share in His sufferings. We want to follow in His footsteps and be willing to love sacrificially whether that costs us our time, money, comfort, or even our very lives.

We want the whole congregation to be actively ministering to people in their greatest needs and help them to see that Christ is all that they need.

We want to learn how to speak one another's languages, to really communicate the love of Christ. We are committed to taking the initiative to get into the worlds of others to bring them the gospel where they live and then lovingly bring them to the true reality of Christ.

We want to see lives changed, the city redeemed, and the region transformed as the gospel takes root and churches are planted.

We want to rejoice together about what the Lord is doing in redemption. We do not want to be like the older brother of the Pharisees, but to be like Christ and the angels who rejoice whenever someone who was lost is found.