We believe God loves people and wants to touch them with His Love.
	We believe the Bible is God's Word, that it contains all the information we need to live as God intended, and that it has authority over our lives.
	We believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that by trusting Him we receive God's forgiveness and abundant life.
	We believe God has given us His Holy Spirit to help us live successfully. Our life in the Spirit includes Spirit baptism, spiritual gifts and power to equip us for His service.
	We believe that all Christians are members of Christ's Universal Church and that each local Body is a living part of His Church
	We believe that God cares about all our problems, including physical ones, and the He provides both natural and supernatural healing for us within His plan for our lives.
	We believe Jesus Christ is coming again and has prepared an eternal home for all who trust and serve Him.
	We believe Christ has commanded us to share the good news of the gospel with people around us and with the people around the world who do not know him.

The Content of the Gospel

THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD
	The one God who made and rules everything is revealed as three persons through His plan of salvation. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit love us, and work together to save us from sin and make us holy. Jesus Christ, God the Son incarnate, is Lord over all the powers of evil. Any other view of God is idolatry.
THE TRUTH ABOUT OURSELVES
	We were made for God, to bear His image and be like Him in moral character, but sin controls and spoils us so that we need to be brought back to God to be forgiven and remade. Jesus Christ, who brings us back, is Himself the model of true godliness. Any other view of Him or of us is deception.
THE STORY OF GOD' S KINGDOM
	Step by step, as Scripture tells, God has been working to establish His Kingdom in this fallen world. Jesus Christ is the King, and our lives are to be His Kingdom. King Jesus is also the Judge, and those who have not bowed to His kingship here will not share His joy hereafter. Trusting, loving and honoring Jesus, and serving others for His sake, is true godliness at its heart. Any other form of religion is error.
THE WAY TO SALVATION
	Jesus Christ, our sin-bearer on the Cross, now from His throne reaches out to rescue us who are lost in the guilt and shame of sin. He calls for faith (trust in Him as Savior) and repentance (turn to Him as Master). He sends His Holy Spirit to change us inwardly so that we hear His call as addressed to us personally and respond wholeheartedly to it. Thereupon we are forgiven and accepted (justified); received as God's children (adopted); made to rejoice at our peace with Him (assurance); and made to realize that now we are living a new life in Christ (regeneration). Any other view of salvation is deficient.
THE LIFE OF FELLOWSHIP
	Christians belong in the church, the family of God, sharing its worship, work, witness and warfare, and enjoying its worldwide brotherhood in Christ. Any other view of the Christian calling is sectarian.
WALKING HOME TO HEAVEN
	Helped by the ministry in the church of Word and sacrament, prayer and pastoral care, spiritual gifts and loving support, Christians live in our constantly hostile world as travelers, heading for a glorious destination. Led and inspired by their Savior through the Holy Spirit, they seek to do all the good they can as they go, and to battle all forms of evil that they meet. Any lesser view of the Christian life is worldly.