Brief Summary of Doctrine

• The Bible is God’s perfect guidebook for living.
• God is bigger and better and closer than I can imagine.
• Jesus is God showing Himself to us.
• Nothing in creation “just happened.” God made it all.
• All people are made in God’s image, but all have a bent toward sin and do sin.
• Grace is the only way to have a relationship with God.
• Faith is the only way to grow in our relationship with God.
• Through His Holy Spirit, God lives in and through us now.
• The church is the community of all true believers for all time. The church is both local and global.
• Christ's followers are to serve people like Jesus served people.
• God has allowed evil to provide us with a choice. He can bring good even out of evil events. God promises victory over evil to those who turn from their sin and choose him.
• Heaven and hell are real places. Death is a beginning, not the end.
• Jesus is coming again.