Our Three positions
Biblical FoundationsWe believe the Bible from cover to cover and are trying to learn from it and live by it every day. The Bible is God's complete, perfect, sufficient, and eternal word. It was delivered to us by godly men inspired by God the Holy Spirit. The sound doctrines, logical reasoning, and consistent actions that believing it demands, are the everlasting foundation of this ministry and our lives(2 Tim. 3:16, Lk. 21:33).
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Gospel MotivationWe believe the gospel. The gospel was prophesied several times over the millennia before Jesus came to earth as a man. He came as the only God-Man. In His incarnation, He was born of a virgin, lived the perfect life we couldn't, absorbed the wrath and paid the debt we owed to God, died the death we deserve, was buried, and rose again three days later. He was seen by hundreds of witnesses and returned to heaven in glory some 40 days later(1 Cor. 15:3-6, Act. 1:1-8). By His work on the Cross, God imputes Christ's righteousness to us(2 Cor. 5:21). He will return for us one day and bring us to live with Him in glory(Jn. 14:2-3). As we have been graciously and lovingly saved by God through His gospel being proclaimed, we also graciously and lovingly proclaim that gospel that others may be saved(Mk. 1:15, 16:15, Rom.1:18, 10:17, 1 Cor. 3:7-8). We are daily being discipled and conformed to the image of Christ and likewise pray we are used by God to help other Christians be discipled and conformed as well(Matt. 28:18-20, Romans 8:29).
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Acting in loveWe take seriously Christ's commands to love. Jesus said we are to love God above all and our neighbors as ourselves. He said these are the greatest two commandments(Mat. 22:37-40). The Apostle Paul tells us we are to treat others as more important than ourselves(Phil. 2:3). We must love God and our neighbors in self sacrificing ways. Even when it means suffering. Jesus and Paul tell us we will suffer and face trials, but that even they are grounds for rejoicing(Matt. 5:10-12, Phil. 1:29). So, we must cast off fear with love. Love for God and for our neighbor as ourselves(1 Jn. 4:18). Love cannot be in just empty words and platitudes. We must go to people and love them in action(1 John 3:18). Because God is love and we want to love our neighbors as ourselves, we must expose their sin by the Law of God(Ex. 20, Ps. 19:7, Rom. 3:19-20, Gal. 3:24). Then we must call them to repent and trust in Christ alone so that they can know God and thus know love(1 Jn. 4).
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