What to expect when visiting Faith Chapel

We welcome all who come to worship with us, and we hope you will feel at home at Faith Chapel.  Please feel free to pick up a visitor packet at our information center in our foyer during your visit.

A typical Sunday morning September through May goes as follows*

• 9:15am Sunday School for all ages (4yrs through adult)
• 10:30am Corporate Worship Service with Children's Church (ages 4 - 2nd grade) during the sermon time

For those with young children age 3 and under, we have a nursery available during all services.  We also have a cry room located near the sanctuary entrance for your use.  

Our corporate worship songs are grounded in Scripture, Christ-centered, gospel-focused, and contemporary in style. We sing a blend of hymns and modern worship choruses—songs written three months ago and songs written three centuries ago—all containing timeless truth from God’s Word that we proclaim and celebrate together for His glory.

If any other needs arise during your visit, our ushers will be more than happy to assist you.

*Sunday School and Children's Church take summer break Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend.

What We Believe
 

Our Purpose

We exist to worship God by enjoying relationship with him and one another through Jesus Christ.

Our Mission

For every believer to become, make, mature, and multiply fully-surrendered disciples of Jesus Christ.

Our core values

Scripture

We believe in the inerrancy, authority, sufficiency, and relevance of the Bible.  The Old and New Testaments are the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice.  The Bible must therefore be central in and applied to all of life and ministry (2 Tim. 3:16-17).

Gospel

We believe that faith in the good news of the person and work of Jesus Christ is essential for eternal salvation and for day-to-day Christian living (Acts 4:12; 1 Tim. 2:5; Rom. 1:15).

Worship

We believe that every believer is called into enjoying God and exulting in God: who God is and who God is for us in Christ.  Every believer is called to a life of worship in response to God’s love poured out on us (Rom. 12:1; 1 Cor 10:31; Col. 3:17).

Holy Spirit

We believe in the biblical doctrine of the Trinity and that the Holy Spirit is a divine person sent to indwell, guide, teach, gift, empower, and bear his fruit in every believer.  Only through surrender to, empowerment by, and cooperation with the work of the Holy Spirit can the believer live a God-honoring, righteous life (John 14:16–18; 16:13; 1 Cor. 12:4, 11; Acts 1:8; Gal. 5:22–23; Eph. 5:18).

Prayer

We believe that prayer is a divinely ordained means for every believer for experiencing relationship with God, glorifying God, participating in the work that God is doing in the world, and receiving grace from God (Mt. 6:5-15; 1 Thess. 5:17; Lk. 18:1-8; Ja. 4:2).

Biblical Worldview

We affirm the importance of developing a biblical worldview in order to see the world as God sees it and live life according to God’s Word (Rom. 12:1-2; Col. 2:8).

Great Commission

We believe that every believer is called by God to participate in the fulfillment of the Great Commission through discipleship; we have the privilege and responsibility to represent Christ to the world: locally, regionally, and to the ends of the earth.  Since no one can be saved apart from hearing and believing the gospel, it is imperative that believers send missionaries throughout the world (Mt. 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Rom. 10:13-17).

Community of Believers: The Church

We believe that God has called all believers to be in relationship with one another for mutual edification and discipleship as we live “on mission” together.  God gives all believers spiritual gifts to be used for the common good for the sake of Christian unity, maturity, and the knowledge of Jesus Christ.  We value loving and serving one another as we seek to honor others above ourselves (1 Cor 12:4-11; Eph. 4:7-16; Heb. 10:24-25).

Our Statement of Faith

There is one God (Deuteronomy 6:4), who is infinitely perfect (Matthew 5:48), existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).

Jesus Christ is the true God and the true man (Philippians 2:6-11).  He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary (Luke 1:34-38). He died upon the cross, the Just for the unjust (1 Peter 3:18), as a substitutionary sacrifice, (Hebrews 2:9) and all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood (Romans 5:9). He arose from the dead according to the Scriptures (Acts 2:23-24). He is now at the right hand of Majesty on high as our great High Priest (Hebrews 8:1). He will come again to establish His kingdom, righteousness and peace (Matthew 26:64).

The Holy Spirit is a divine person (John 14:15-18), sent to dwell, guide, teach, empower the believer (John 16:13; Acts 1:8), and convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment (John 16:7-11).

The Old and New Testaments, inerrant as originally given, were verbally inspired by God and are a complete revelation of His will for the salvation of men. They constitute the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice (2 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Timothy 3:15-16).

Man was originally created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:27): he fell through disobedience, incurring thereby both physical and spiritual death. All men are born with a sinful nature (Romans 3:23), are separated from the life of God, and can be saved only through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:20-23). The portion of the unrepentant and unbelieving is existence forever in conscious torment (Revelation 21:8); and that of the believer, in everlasting joy and bliss (Revelation 21:1-4).

Salvation has been provided through Jesus Christ for all men; and those who repent and believe in Him are born again of the Holy Spirit, receive the gift of eternal life, and become the children of God (Titus 3:4-7).

It is the will of God that each believer should be filled with the Holy Spirit and be sanctified wholly (1 Thessalonians 5:23), being separated from sin and the world and fully dedicated to the will of God, thereby receiving power for holy living and effective service (Acts 1:8). This is both a crisis and a progressive experience wrought in the life of the believer subsequent to conversion (Romans 6:1-14).

Provision is made in the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ for the healing of the mortal body (Matthew 8:16-17). Prayer for the sick and anointing with oil are taught in the Scriptures and are privileges for the Church in this present age (James 5:13-16).

The Church consists of all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, are redeemed through His blood, and are born again of the Holy Spirit. Christ is the Head of the Body, the Church (Ephesians 1:22-23), which has been commissioned by Him to go into all the world as a witness, preaching the gospel to all nations (Matthew 28:19-20). The local church is a body of believers in Christ who are joined together for the worship of God, for edification through the Word of God, for prayer, fellowship, the proclamation of the gospel, and observance of the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper (Acts 2:41-47).

There shall be a bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust; for the former, a resurrection unto life (1 Corinthians 15:20-23); for the latter, a resurrection unto judgment (John 5:28-29).

The second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is imminent (Hebrews 10:37) and will be personal, visible, and premillennial (Luke 21:27). This is the believer's blessed hope and is a vital truth which is an incentive to holy living and faithful service (Titus 2:11-14).

The Alliance Stand

How do you live your life so authentically that there is no question about what you believe? Some people call it their creed, others call it dogma or position. Basically, doctrine is the bedrock on which you build your beliefs, a body or system of teachings relating to a particular subject.

What The Alliance believes about God, how He relates to us, and how we relate to Him is foundational in its teachings. The Alliance wholeheartedly serves God and the people of His world, based soundly on the Bible. We live and die by these words and believe they bring the only life worth living, one wholly committed to the King Jesus.