What we believe
Our mission
Building relationships that change lives through Jesus Christ
Our vision
Living Hope is a congregation where the Word of God is fostering and nurturing an environment where evangelism and discipleship go hand in hand as we allow the Holy Spirit to empower and enable us to become all that God has called us to be as a unified body of believers.
Word of God
The worship service is one where the Word of God is central and the salvation that Christ provided through His life, death and resurrection is declared with music, Scripture readings, liturgy and expository preaching. This is all accomplished through a cross-generational worship service where the congregation is actively involved, engaged and is given opportunities to respond in the power of God’s grace and apply the Living Word of God to their lives.
Holy Spirit
The members of Living Hope are committed to allowing the Holy Spirit to knit them together in a cross-generational way that honors the prayer of Jesus in John 17:20-21. We are also committed, in the power of God’s grace, to allow God’s Word to mold and transform us into the congregation and individuals that the Triune God of creation desires us to become. This encompasses both young and old and is accomplished through the power of the Holy Spirit working through the living Word of God. Transformed people are used by God to transform lives.
Evangelism + Discipleship
The congregation is also committed to declaring the excellencies of Christ to one another, to our community and the world. This is accomplished through a willingness to make ourselves available through strategic outreach and through congregational events where evangelism and discipleship go hand in hand as God grows His Church both spiritually and physically. All this is steeped in and saturated with intentional, unified prayer, because apart from Christ, we can do nothing.
Statement of faith
We believe, confess and adhere to the Holy Scriptures. We believe that the Holy Bible, consisting of the sixty-six canonical books of the Old and New Testaments, is inspired, was without error in its original writing, and is the sole authority for faith and practice. It is the holy, and infallible Word of God revealed for the salvation of man.
We believe in ONE holy and Triune God who is revealed in three distinct persons; The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit, yet these three are ONE! The Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Father and the Holy Spirit is neither the Father or the Son, yet there is ONE holy and Triune God who has created the universe and everything in it and is clearly revealed through the person and work of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior (John 1:18).
We believe that man, although created without sin, fell by Adam’s transgression so that all mankind is now sinful by state, disposition, and act, and justly under God’s condemnation.
We believe the only way of salvation for sinners is by grace through faith. Salvation was made possible by the substitutionary death and glorious resurrection of the Son of God. The gospel is the message that salvation is available through belief in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The blessings of salvation are made free to all by the gospel. It is the need of all to accept the gospel by faith and all who do so receive all of the benefits of salvation.
We teach that the Apostolic, the Nicene, and the Athanasian Creeds, the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and Luther’s Small Catechism are correct expositions of the Word of God.
Our Affiliation
Living Hope Church is a Bible-believing, Christ-centered church that is a member of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC).