I believe in the one triune God: God, the Creator and Parent of us all; Jesus Christ, God’s only son, fully human and fully God; and the Holy Spirit, who binds all of God’s children together in community.
God is sovereign, and this sovereignty allows all to accept the mysteries of faith. I believe that God does not make mistakes, loves beyond all understanding, and is the first to grieve over injustice, war, trauma, and oppression. God calls each person by name and calls them God’s own, and there is nothing that can separate anyone from God’s love.
I believe in Jesus Christ, the resurrected son of God, God with us, who lived out his life in a broken world so that he could save humanity from their brokenness through his unending grace. In Jesus’ divinity we see his love for humanity, and in his humanity we see his understanding of suffering, pain, and joy. Jesus lived a human life so that nothing we live is beyond his understanding. Jesus calls us to live our lives as he did, spreading love, working for justice, and embracing those who are so often ignored.
I believe in the Holy Spirit who weaves all of creation together as one community, tying us together with love and fellowship. The Spirit is ever present and active in our lives, constantly nudging us towards God’s call in our lives.
I believe that scripture is God’s word revealed to us with the help of the Spirit and the prophets, a source of both comfort and challenge. Scripture is God’s living word, constantly challenging us to grow and experience it in new ways as we grow in maturity and understanding. Scripture is a constant home to return to while wrestling with questions of faith, life, or understanding, and provides language to address God’s greatness when it seems impossible to find.
It is in baptism that we are offered an outward symbol of Jesus’ invisible grace. Through baptism our lives are transformed as God calls us by name and marks us as Christ’s own. We are engrafted into the body of Christ, the Church, as we are sealed with the ordinary waters that remind us of Christ’s extraordinary grace. Baptism reminds us that we belong to God and there is nothing that can ever change that.
In celebrating the Lord’s Supper, we are offered tangible reminders of Jesus Christ’s incredible sacrifice, unearned and yet still given. As we gather as a community of faith around the Lord’s table, we are shown Christ’s hospitality for all. Through the Lord’s Supper we are offered extraordinary spiritual nourishment in the ordinary elements of bread and wine.
Christ’s church is Christ’s hands and feet in the world. It is not perfect because it is made up of imperfect people, but those same people seek to love God, neighbor, and selves through worship, mission, evangelism, and study. The church is a symbol of God’s hospitality and community, a living and breathing sign of God’s work in the world and in God’s people.