HOW WE FOLLOW JESUS
We work together to care, like Jesus cares.
Caring for one another.
God’s purpose is to shape us to be more and more like Jesus. We are called to love each other the way Christ loves us and gave Himself for us.
Caring for the earth & the kingdom.
God’s great universe is awesome and beautiful, but our little planet is broken and hurting. God’s first instruction for His first people was to “tend and keep” the garden. He wants His people, living under His leadership, to continue to care for creation. We pray for His kingdom to come and His will to be done here, as it is in heaven.
HOW WE FOLLOW JESUS
We work together to know and to live out the gospel.
We seek the joy of obedience to Jesus.
We are Jesus’ students and friends and followers. His new commandment, to love one another as He has loved us, is not a heavy burden, because He provides the grace that empowers us to become more and more loving of God and loving other people as we love ourselves.
We seek that joy together.
Our church family offers friendship and small groups that meet at various times in the week. We support each other and learn more deeply how to embrace the great news that Jesus’ way of life is available.
HOW WE FOLLOW JESUS
We pray, and we watch God work.
We believe and rejoice in the power of prayer, because we’ve seen what God can do.
What a relief it is to learn to actually trust in Jesus and not just struggle through life on our own! Prayer is a key to unlock real trust.
HOW WE FOLLOW JESUS
Jesus made us a family, differences and all.
Jesus made us a family, so we seek to act like one.
We believe that God has made each person infinitely valuable, but we live in a world that often treats us like disposable objects.
We understand that our church is a local expression of Christ’s family. In His family, we accept and forgive and love each other, and we help each other set aside the things that hurt and trap us.
HOW WE FOLLOW JESUS
We simply want to focus on Jesus.
In all we think, and do, and say.
We want to “lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily entangles us, and fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising its shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”
(Hebrews 12:1-2)
