- Jesus is the center of all things. In a world where it seems nothing is at the center of anything, Jesus is the center of our lives. This is not to say Jesus is stationary, we live with and celebrate a mobile center.
- No one has arrived at the destination. In fact the destination is not the point, the point is the journey. From the beginning of time until time is no longer counted, humanity will be on a journey of exploration with God.
- Our God is a God of relationship. Humanity was created for relationship, and Jesus came to open the possibility for a full relationship with God. The relationship of God and humanity is not limited to those known as Christians, all people are in relationship to God. Those who are followers of Jesus will therefore have relationships with all people, like our God.
- We are not left without a guidance system. The Holy Spirit has been given to humanity that it may have direction on the journey. Using various gifts and encounters, the Spirit allows our journey to be shaped and molded that we may be more and more like the persons God hopes for us to be.
- The Holy Scriptures, the Bible, are the great message of God. In the pages of the Bible all truth of humanity is found. Simply, humanity often does a poor job of discerning that truth completely.
- The church is the community of people who meet together in space and time, it is not a building. This community is where people engage God, the Scriptures, and each other as we journey together.
- If not for grace we would all be even further from God and each other. Grace is the gift of God most visibly seen in Christ's death on the cross, and lived out each day in the ways followers of Jesus engage the world.
- The church does not have missions, it is a mission. God has one plan to restore all humanity to relationship, the church, and that is the mission of the church. Being the mission of God takes us to our neighbors, to the center city, to the rural places, around the city, the country and the world. Wherever there is a need for people to experience the Kingdom of God, the mission of God is called to be.