Our Beliefs

As a Christian church, the Seventh-day Adventists are a faith community rooted in the beliefs described in the Bible. We describe these beliefs in the following ways...

God's Character
God's greatest desire is for us to see a clear picture of His character. When we see Him clearly, we will find His love irresistible. God most clearly reveals His character in three great events:

• The first is His creation of man and woman. He gave them the freedom of choice, thus, giving us the ability to freely choose to love Him or to ignore Him!
• The death of Jesus Christ, God's only Son, on the cross as our substitute is the second great event. Through this act, He paid the penalty for our sins. Jesus' death guarantees forgiveness for our poor choices, and allows us to spend eternity with Him.
• The third event confirms the first two and fills every heart with hope. Christ's tomb is empty! He is alive, living to fill us with His love!

The Bible
The Bible is God's voice, speaking His love personally to us today.The Bible speaks the Creator's directions to us, like a detailed road map that clearly shows the path directly into heaven. It is much like an owner's manual the describes that way to live a life ready to be lived on the cutting edge of joy, freedom, and love.    

Sometimes His voice speaks through stories, such as those of David and Goliath, Ruth and Boaz, and Christ on the cross. These stories teach us how to handle the troubles we face each day. Other portions of Scripture are direct instructions and laws from God, such as the Ten Commandments, as recorded in Exodus 20. The Bible also gives God's practical advice and encouragement through parables, promises, and warnings. Amazingly, though many different writers wrote the Bible, each page describes the same God. God is described in ways that we can understand. God's ways are illustrated simply and clearly so that we can apply meaning to our lives today. The Bible is always His voice, talking personally to anyone who is willing to read and hear.

Jesus, Our Savior
Everything in this world -- our desires, interests, skills, circumstancesis -- are always changing. But Jesus? He's consistent. He's always the same. Sure, He's always touching our lives in thousands of new and different ways, but His character is unchanging. Jesus is God's Son, the Creator, our Saviour and Friend. Jesus has promised to be all of that, and more, for each of us, personally. We can trust His promises because He is God. He keeps us strong when the enemy is trying to cause us to stumple and fall.

Seventh-day Adventists believe that Jesus is one of the three persons, called the Trinity. The Trinity (God the Father; God the Son; God the Holy Spirit) who make up our one God. The Bible describes Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit as each being committed to our growth as Christians and to our salvation as their children. God created the world, but sin quickly entered in. Salvation became possible when Jesus -- God's Son -- was born as a human baby. Jesus lived a life in human form, perfectly, in accordance with His Father's will. And Jesus died for all of our sins. He was placed in a tomb, but He rose three days later...He is Alive! Now He is in Heaven preparing for our deliverance from this sinful Earth. He is preparing a mansion just for you!

When everything in our lives may seem to be falling apart -- when you feel totally alone in the universe -- Jesus is right there in the center of it all, offering personal peace, hope, strength, and wisdom. Have you invited Him into your life? When you do, He immediately begins "remodeling" who you are and how you live...in ways that will really make you happy. The job of the Holy Spirit, in fact, is to transform His followers into representatives of God's character.

A Place to Belong...and Grow!
God's vision for us is a joyful life! God loves you, and wants to give us the highest quality of life imaginable. This is why He provides church families where we can belong. God doesn't want anything to get in the way of His relationship with us. He especially does not want us to get involved in anything damaging or hurtful. He is like a loving father or a faithful, protective big brother. He is someone who loves us so much that He is always looking out for you.   

Our Need for a Savior
God made you and has a very special plan for your life. It's a plan that will fill you with hope, love, peace, and activity. In fact, when Christ paid the penalty for sin on the cross, that gave Him the right to claim us each as His own. As a result, we can experience His love and priceless salvation freely and fully without limit. 

God cleans away all our sins and replaces them with His goodness. We don't have to be "good" for Him to accept us. All we need to do is accept His promise and allow Him to transform our lives to be like Him. The minute we accept Jesus' gift of salvation, we begin to experience the transforming power of His love. What is going on in this world is like a giant war: one side (Satan's side) pulling us toward empty pleasure and destruction, and the other side (God's side) urging us to accept a free offer of peace and joy.   

To help us understand how God can transform us into His children, Jesus modeled the process of baptism for us. Baptism symbolizes our dying to self and coming alive in Jesus. Seventh-day Adventists practice full immersion baptism because by being fully buried beneath the water we symbolize that God's grace fully fills us with His new life for the future. Through baptism we are truly born again in Jesus.    Eternal life, peace, purpose, forgiveness, transforming grace, hope...everything He promises is ours, because He is offering it and He has proven that we can trust Him to do exactly as He promises.

A Personal Relationship
In the heart of God is a place we can experience as home. God loves you, and wants to spend time with us personally, one on one, as two close friends. A vital part of that relationship is daily time with God. We can always trust Him to treat us well, because He loves us.   

The seventh day (Saturday) is an extra-special part of the relationship. The Bible, from Genesis through Revelation, describes the seventh day as the one day God has set aside for focused fellowship with His people. God has named that day "Sabbath" and asked us to spend it with Him. "Remember the Sabbath day," He says, "to keep it holy." The Sabbath is a whole day to deepen our friendship with the Creator of the universe.   

There's another great truth about friendship with God. It does not end in a cemetery, for God is planning a homecoming better than anything we can dream. A homecoming filled with angels, trumpets, Jesus, and resurrections! He's promised to bring His followers -- those who have accepted the offer of His life-changing love -- from this Earth to His home, a place He calls Heaven. A place where our friendship can go on growing forever, endlessly, joyfully! God keeps a family album, and your picture is in it. God loves you and has a plan for your life.    

God's love is about you. He loves you, personally!