Reformed

Fourth, we are Reformed:

We believe in a sovereign view of God. No, we really believe in a sovereign view of God. The nuances of this belief cause us to reorder our considerations of God and his workings, and provide a platform of understanding that allows people to make sense of the world and live at peace in it despite its brokenness.

While we hold to a very solid theological and biblical grid, we believe that all theology ultimately ends in missiology. In other words, these beliefs and theological considerations are not about our intellectual ascents, but purposeful to grasp the mission of God and enable us to be faithful in that mission.

• We believe that God created the heavens and the earth and that this is God’s world. We believe that God created man and woman in a state of sinless perfection and as his image bearers, humanity has dignity and intuitively strives to make the world better as a result of God’s image and charge to humanity.
• We believe that our first parents sinned against God and that everyone since is a sinner by nature and choice. Sin has totally affected all of creation including marring human image and likeness so that all of our being is stained by sin (e.g. reasoning, desires, and emotions). Sin continually frustrates humanity’s efforts to make things better, and requires the redemptive work of Jesus in order to see the world restored.
• We believe that the redemptive plan of God began in eternity past and that the purposes of Jesus within history are not “a backup plan” for fallen humanity.
• We believe that all people have sinned and separated themselves from the Holy God and that he is obligated to save no one from the just deserved punishments of hell. We also believe that God in his unparalleled love and mercy has chosen to elect some people for salvation.

Furthermore, he has demonstrated his steadfast love and faithfulness in saving his people throughout all of history, culminating in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, God’s only son.