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God is bigger and better and closer than we can imagine.
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The Bible is God’s perfect guidebook for living.
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Jesus is God showing himself to us.
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Through His Holy Spirit, God lives in and through us now.
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Nothing in creation “just happened.” God made it all.
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Grace is the only way to have a relationship with God.
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Faith is the only way to grow in our relationship with God.
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God has allowed evil to provide us with a choice, God can bring good even out of evil events and God promises victory over evil to those who choose him.
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Heaven and hell are real places. Death is a beginning, not the end.
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The church is to serve people like Jesus served people..
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Jesus is coming again.
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We can become more like Jesus.
Words About God . . .
When we begin to describe what we believe about God, we discover that he's been writing a story of hope and redemption for all the world, and we have a role to play in this story.
We believe the Bible to be the voices of many who have come before us, inspired by God to pass along their poems, stories, accounts, and letters of response and relationship with each other and the living God. These words have been used to describe God and his character for thousands of years, and we call this theology.
Theology is one of the best ways we can come to know and love God; it is also how we understand who God calls us to be and what he calls us to do.
Theology comes from the Greek words "theos" and "logos." Theos means God, and logos means word. Words about God.