We
believe in the Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Three
persons, One God, all Eternal and Equal. This is a divine
mystery, but we believe all things are possible with God, and though we
as flesh are unable to do this, He is able because God is Spirit.
We believe in God the Father who created all things. We believe
that Jesus Christ became Flesh, born of a virgin, and dwelt among us.
We believe that he willingly and lovingly died on the cross because of
our sins and that trusting with true faith in his atoning sacrifice is
the way to heaven. We believe that the third person, the Holy
Spirit, comforts, gifts, guides, convicts and directs as fully today as
He did with the first century church.
We are a Bible believing congregation. United Methodist have a long
heritage of believing in the primacy of Scripture. We accept the
39 books of the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament as Scripture,
all other writings must be interpreted in light of these. Though
we invite reasoning, learning from experience and tradition, all true
understanding begins and ends with the revealed Word of God.
Everything needed for salvation and living can be found in God's word.
We believe that cold orthodoxy will be rejected by God. James
said, "You believe, good for you, even the demons believe and they
shudder." Belief without works is no faith at all. We do
not earn our way to heaven, (Jesus paid that price) but since we
believe that Jesus Christ could have called 10,000 angels to save him
from the cross, but instead died for us, we happily follow
him. We do not do good deeds to get God to love us (that is
already at full tilt) but we love others because He first loved us.