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WHAT WE BELIEVE

GOD

We believe there is one true God who is eternally self-existent and the Creator of all things. He exists in three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

FATHER || JESUS || HOLY SPIRIT

FATHER
We believe God is beyond human understanding and imagination and has revealed Himself through Jesus and throughout the Bible. God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-present. He is unconditionally loving, relentlessly merciful and absolutely just.

JESUS
We believe Jesus (the Son) is the second person of the Godhead. He was born of a virgin; as such, he was fully human and fully God. Jesus lived a sinless life, performed miracles, died a substitutionary death on the cross, rose from the dead on the third day, ascended to heaven and is at the right hand of God the Father interceding for his people.

HOLY SPIRIT
We believe the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Godhead, who existed from eternity past. He was hovering over the surface of the waters at creation and active in the creative process. Throughout the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit guides, directs prophecy, and anoints. In the New Testament his actions are the same, and his works compliment Christ’s work. Currently, the Holy Spirit is at work in the world, regenerating, convicting, empowering, interceding, and reminding us of the words of Jesus. The Spirit enables us to pray with words, without words and with His words.

US

We believe each person is created in God’s image. As image bearers, each person possesses inherent dignity and worth.

CREATION || FALL

CREATION
We believe that all people are created in the image of God to have fellowship with him. The way we treat each other, interact with our culture, do our work and the way we steward our gifts are all expressions of worship. We were created to glorify God in all we do.

FALL
We believe sin is our biggest problem. Sin is worshipping (or ascribing worth to) anything more than Jesus. It goes beyond bad behavior. Sin is making even a good thing an ultimate thing in our lives. The fall is when sin entered the world. Humankind’s sin broke our relationship with God, a relationship we cannot repair through good works or behavior modification.

RESPONSE

We believe God responded to us and our problem while we were still his enemy. In his grace and mercy, God chose to provide a pathway for us to come into relationship with him.

REDEMPTION || RESTORATION || THE BIBLE

REDEMPTION
We believe that unconditional love, unlimited forgiveness, and undying hope are found in Jesus Christ – the one and only mediator between God and humanity. We are redeemed into right standing and relationship with God because of Jesus’ substitutionary life and death on our behalf.

RESTORATION
We believe God will restore his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. God is restoring humanity and creation in and through the person and work of Jesus Christ. As such, every believer should mature and be conformed to the image & mission of Jesus. We participate in this restoration process by living on mission at home and in the marketplace as disciples and disciple makers.

THE BIBLE
We believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God, for us, revealing what God is like and maintaining the theme of redemption through the work of Jesus from beginning to end.

Affiliation

We are affiliated with the Assemblies of God (AG), which makes up the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination with over 60 million members. The AG provides leadership over the pastoral staff and Centerway supports AG missionaries around the globe in their call to spread the Gospel.