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God made us, claimed us, and knows us by name.
We believe that God created and sustains all that exists; that this same God has justified, redeemed, called and adopted us as children through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ; that this same God inhabits our daily lives through the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ is Lord of our life, our death, and all creation.
By the power of the cross and resurrection, God has established rule over all things - including life and death - in the person of Jesus Christ. He is our master, Lord, and the one whom we ultimately trust for all things.
Jesus Christ is the one real hope for the world.
In the midst of all the things we try and the world offers, nothing gives us true hope that death is not the final word and chaos not the rule of life except Jesus Christ. In him there is a final word that speaks life in the face of death; hope in the face of despair; wholeness in the face of chaos; meaning in the face of meaninglessness.
Christ meets us and walks with us in our suffering.
God entered into our world not in a palace, but a stable; not among the rich, but the poor; not amidst the well, but the sick; not among the living, but the dead. The cross is the meeting place between God and humanity. God meets us in the depths of our failures, pain, suffering and death bringing redemption and life.
Nothing separates us from the love of Christ.
God’s love in Christ is unconditional, eternal, and ultimate. Nothing we can do or not do; nothing that others say or do to us; nothing that happens in time or space can come between us and God’s love and acceptance - period.
God’s love is a free gift for all, paid for by Jesus Christ.
God accepts us, saves us, makes us holy because of what Jesus Christ has done, not by what we do, think, say, accomplish, prove, or experience. We were saved on a hill outside of Jerusalem on the day the blood of Jesus cleansed the world.
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