Our Pillars

Unapologetic Preaching

Proclaiming the authority of God's Word without apology. (2 Timothy 2:2)

Unashamed Worship

Lifting high the Name of Jesus through worship. (John 4:24)

|

|

Unceasing Prayer

Believing firmly in the power of prayer. (Colossians 4:2)

|

Unafraid Witness

Sharing the Good News of Jesus with boldness (Eph. 6:19-20)

|

Unconditional Service

Serving the body of Christ with love. (1 Cor. 12-13)

|

Our Practice

We are passionate about making disciples that are on mission to:

Worship | Walk | Work | Witness

Authentic followers of Christ are in a continual process of sanctification - becoming more and more like Christ.  Around Hope we describe this as worshiping, walking, working and witnessing. When we’re intentional about honoring God in these ways, we can’t help but become “mature in Christ” (Colossians 1:28)—growing deeper in our relationship with Him and our relationships with others.

  • Worship is the fuel for our discipleship, and God’s glory is the ultimate end in worship. While worship involves every aspect of life and is not constrained to Sunday morning, each week we participate in corporate worship.

    We are eager to lift up the name of Jesus in worship with a teachable heart ready to receive from God’s Word.

    Attend a service

  • Disciple-making is lived out in ministry to one another. We encourage one another through mutual ministry to become “mature in Christ” (Colossians 1:28) and to grow deeper in our relationship with God and our relationships with others.

    We grow in Christ-likeness through spiritual disciplines and in community with other believers.

    At Hope, this community is found in discipleship groups where we gather together throughout the week to apply God's word, lift one another up in prayer, hold each other accountable, and care for each other's needs.

  • Service is the overflow of our discipleship. Jesus said, "I came not to be served but to serve" (Mark 10:45). As members of the body of Christ, our aim is to model His heart in service toward others by participating in the work God is doing in the local church.

    We believe it is a privilege to work for Christ and we encourage everyone who calls Hope Bible Church their home to exercise their faith in a tangible way by serving this community.

  • We are all called to be ambassadors for Christ by carrying the message of reconciliation. At Hope, we want to be people who courageously share the gospel in word (2 Corinthians 5:16-21) and in deed (Matthew 5:16).

    Witness is a display of obedient love to those in my communities by consistently serving and sharing the gospel.

What we believe:

These basic doctrinal beliefs represent what we believe to be core elements of Biblical teaching and what we hold firmly to as a church. Click on a heading below to see an expanded description and applicable scripture references.

  • We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments to be the full record of God’s self-disclosure to mankind. Different men, while writing according to their own styles and personalities, were supernaturally moved along by the Holy Spirit to record God’s very words, inerrant in the original writings. Therefore, those applying themselves to study its literal, historical-grammatical context can accurately understand God’s Word. Scripture is fully trustworthy as our final and only sufficient authority for all of life (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21).

  • We believe in the one living and true God, eternally (John 17:3) existing in perfect unity as three equally and fully divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19-20). Each member of the Godhead, while executing distinct but complementary roles in redemptive history, has precisely the same nature, attributes, and being, and is equally worthy of the same glory and honor and obedience (John 1:1-4; Acts 5:3-4).

  • We believe God the Father created all things for His glory according to His own will (Revelation 4:11), through His Son, Jesus Christ. He upholds all things by the Word of His power and grace, exercising sovereign headship over all creation, providence, and redemption (Colossians 1:17; Hebrews 1:3).

  • Item descriptionWe believe that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son, moved by love in accordance with the will of the Father, took on human flesh (John 1:1, 14, 18). Conceived through the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the virgin Mary. He, being fully God and fully man (John 14:8-9), lived a sinless life and sacrificially shed His blood and died on the cross in our place accomplishing redemption for all who place their faith in Him. He arose visibly and bodily from the dead three days later and ascended into heaven, where, at the Father’s right hand, He is now Head of His Body the Church, the only Savior and Mediator between God and man, and will return to earth in power and glory to consummate His redemptive mission (1 Timothy 3:16).

  • We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ during this age. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He encounters the unredeemed in repentance and faith, and at salvation imparts new spiritual life to the believer, bringing that person into union with Christ and the Body of Christ. The Holy Spirit sanctifies, seals, fills, guides, instructs, comforts, equips, empowers, permanently indwells at salvation, and bestows spiritual gifts to the believer for Christ-like living and service (John 16:8; 13:15; Titus 3:5; Ephesians 1:22; 4:11-12; Romans 8:9-17; 12:4-8; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 12:4-5, 11-13, 19; Galatians 5:25; Hebrews 2:1-4; 2 Corinthians 12:12).

  • We believe that, in the beginning, God created mankind in His own image and likeness, male and female, free of sin, to glorify Himself and enjoy His fellowship (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:7-8). However, tempted by Satan, but in the sovereign plan of God, man freely chose to disobey God, bringing sin, death, and condemnation to all mankind. Alienated from God without defense or excuse, and subject to God’s righteous wrath, all of mankind is in desperate need of the Savior (Genesis 3:1-6; Romans 3:10-19; Romans 1:18, 32).

  • We believe that God intentionally created humanity both male and female; each in the image of God and equal in value, while also having distinct but complementary roles in marriage, family life, church leadership, and elsewhere in God’s overall plan for human good and human flourishing (Genesis 1:27; 2:18-25).

    We believe that marriage is biblically defined as one male and one female entering into a lifelong, covenantal union and is specifically designed to reflect the covenantal love between Christ and his bride The Church. (Matthew 19:4-6; Ephesians 5:28-32).

  • We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as the substitutionary atonement in our place, and that salvation is found in none other than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ’s death on the cross was the sole and complete payment for sins, fully satisfying God’s righteous wrath, for each person that turns from sin in repentance and places their faith in Christ alone by grace alone. At salvation each person is made a new creation by the Holy Spirit and declared righteous before God. Genuine faith continues in obedience and love for Jesus Christ with a life eager to glorify God (Romans 8:37-39; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 12:13).

  • We believe that Christian baptism is a public declaration of the believer’s salvation in Christ, identifying with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection (Acts 2:38-41; Romans 6:3-6; Matthew 28:19).

    We believe baptism is by immersion in water (Mark 1:4-5; John 3:23; Acts 8:36-38).

  • We believe that upon placing one’s faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, the believer is made part of the Body of Christ, the one universal Church, of which Jesus Christ is the Head. The Scriptures command believers to gather locally in order to devote themselves to God’s glory through worship, prayer, teaching of the Word, fellowship, the ordinances of baptism and communion, service to the local body through the development and use of talents and spiritual gifts, and outreach to the world to make disciples of others (Ephesians 1:22-23; Acts 2:42-46; 1 Corinthians 14:26; Matthew 28:18-20; Hebrews 10:24-25).

    Wherever God’s people meet regularly in obedience to these commands, there is the local expression of the Church under the watchful care of a plurality of elders. A church’s members are to work together in love and unity, intent on the ultimate purpose of glorifying Christ (Ephesians 4:16).

  • We believe that the Lord’s Supper is the corporate commemoration by believers of Christ’s death until He comes and should be preceded by a careful self-examination (Acts 2:42; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34).

  • We believe it is the aim, duty, and privilege of every believer and local church fellowship to glorify God by responding as active participants in the Great Commission call of Jesus Christ to go and make disciples of all nations (Matt. 28-19-20).

  • We believe in and expectantly await the glorious, visible, personal, return of the Lord Jesus Christ. The blessed hope of His return has vital bearing on the personal life, service, and mission of the believer (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost. The lost will be raised to judgment and experience eternal wrath in hell. The saved will be raised to eternal joy in the new heaven and new earth in the manifested presence of God (Acts 1:3, 9; Hebrews 7:25-26).

  • We believe the corporate aspect of the great commission is centered on efforts to establish, strengthen, and reproduce biblically-based churches, which will then plant churches that plant churches for future generations all for God’s glory (Matthew 24:14, 28:18-20; Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8, 14:21-23; 20:28; Titus 1:5; 1 Corinthians 3:6; Revelation 7:9; Hebrews 10:25).

  • We believe that God created the world in six literal days and designed the world in the order and detail indicated in Genesis 1 & 2 (Mark 10:6, 12:19; Matthew 19:3-6, 24:38-39; Luke 11:50-51; Psalm 33:6-9; John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:16-17).

  • We believe in the sovereign hand of God in calling people to faith. Everyone that God calls he justifies and all whom he justifies he also sanctifies and all whom he sanctifies he also glorifies, and so, we rest assured that God will complete the work he began in us (John 6:37, 44, 10:15-16, 26, 11:50-52; 17:6, 9, 19; Romans 8:7-9; Ephesians 1:4-5, 2:1-3; Philippians 1:6).