Why We Are Here

The local church is a group of believers who have joined themselves together to grow in Christlikeness through the teaching of the Word (the Bible), fellowship, worship and prayer while continuing to spread the gospel in and beyond their community. 

To this end, we understand that the Church bears the awesome responsibility of “glorifying” or simply reflecting the character of God.  As His people, we are to bear witness to his character, attributes, and abilities by deeply transformed lives produced by the power of the Gospel. As a group of believers, we desire to honor the One Who saved us from our sin, the one Who blesses us each day and the One who invites us into the work He is doing.

From the overflow of the grace Jesus has extended to us, we collectively and individually strive to make the Gospel known.  We develop the life of Christ in ourselves and fellow believers through study, discipleship and simply walking through life together, pointing one another to Christ and encouraging each other in the gospel. Simple, but not easy. 

As a church we feel like being a place “where the Bible is taught and people are loved” captures the essence of who we are and what it is to be a believer in a Gospel community.  We have all been saved by grace, we have all received unmerited favor, and as such we are to love, serve and live from a place of being nothing more than redeemed sinners, humbled and grateful for what we have received, and submitted to a sovereign, Holy, and good God - -  ready to share the same kind of sacrificial love Jesus has shown us, to others.  Again, we don’t do it perfectly, only Jesus does that.  But we do have his example, and we earnestly seek to follow it through study, community, worship, prayer and a life lived out with Christ at the center.