VISION
The Risen Church family exists not to only bring the gospel, but to make the gospel centric to the metropolitan context. Our core values are the framework for improving the quality of life-affirming realities in the city. Justice, Worship, Hope, and Community.
CORE VALUES
JUSTICE
We, as followers of Christ, are called to express God’s justice to the world around us.
HOPE
We, as believers in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, are assured of eternal life in heaven. It is this hope that emboldens us to share our faith with others and to live a life that reflects the character of God, regardless of the consequences.
WORSHIP
True worship of God is rooted in our hearts and is expressed in a life that honors God by serving others.
COMMUNITY
Risen Church is a community of believers; whose purpose is to exhort each other to live a God honoring life that impacts the community that surrounds us. Our relationships with God, each other, and the community should promote Justice, Love, and Worship within Risen Church and within our community.
WE BELIEVE
Risen Church accepts the Bible as our all-sufficient rule for faith and practice. This statement is intended simply as a basis of fellowship among us (i.e., that we all speak the same thing. The phraseology employed in this statement is not inspired nor contended for, but the truth set forth is held to be essential to a full-gospel ministry.
The Scriptures Inspired
The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct.
God the Father
The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent "I AM," the Creator of heaven and earth, and the Redeemer of mankind. He has further revealed himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
God the Son
We believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten eternal Son of God Who became flesh to reveal God to man, to fulfill prophecy, and to become the Savior of the lost world. In becoming man Jesus did not cease in any way to be God so that He is fully God and fully man inseparably united in one person forever.
God the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the primary agent for the conviction of sin and for regeneration. Simultaneously with salvation, the Holy Spirit imparts new life, baptizes the believer into the body of Christ (His church), permanently indwells the believer, and securely seals the believer unto the day of redemption.
The Salvation of Man
Man's only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God according to the hope of eternal life. The inward evidence of salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit (Romans 8:16). The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness
The Christian Life
We believe that every Christian should live for Christ and not for himself and should, by the power of the indwelling Spirit, allow Christ to manifest His life through him to God’s glory. By ever increasing obedience to the Word of God, each believer should mature and progressively become more like Jesus.