We believe we are created in the image of God, male and female.
Believing that God’s will for us is goodwill, we follow in the footsteps of God’s beloved Son,
Jesus the Christ.
We believe Jesus lived to forgive, and showed us how, by serving one another, we connect to the heart of God.
Jesus’ mission to bind up and heal the broken hearted is our mission also.
We believe and trust Jesus’ saving act of taking all our sin, regret and sorrow
upon his own shoulders.
He bore them to the cross where they died with him.
Jesus was buried in a tomb, but on the third day God raised him from the dead,
as promised.
Not long after his resurrection, also as promised, God sent the Holy Spirit into our midst
speaking truth in every language to all who have ears to hear.
We believe The Spirit is our ever-present advocate, counselor,
and friend teaching us to love God and one another as the Christ loved us.
Praise God! Amen.
INVITATION TO THE OFFERING
When I was in Nursing school doing my pediatric rotation, we learned all of reflexes that infants are born with: a rooting reflex, sucking reflex, moro reflex, the tonic neck reflex, grasp reflex, Babinski reflex and the step reflex. These inborn reflexes are essential for an infant’s survival. Crying isn’t included the list, nevertheless it is instinctive and the only way a baby can communicate his or her need for food, a cuddle or a diaper change. If these needs are not met the child will fail to thrive. The same is true for Christians, particularly those who are new to the faith. If they don’t receive the spiritual essentials, they can’t thrive and grow into salvation. You may think people choose to be spiritually undernourished, but I think they just haven’t tasted that the Lord is good and I believe the church is still a place where people can discover the good taste of God.
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