What We Believe

We're a diverse group of people, and we don't all see the world alike. You'll find a broad range of views and opinions here about almost any issue or subject. With many different generations, economic brackets, education levels, places of origin, and political leanings represented, the views you'll hear voiced here about pretty much anything are about as varied as you'd expect.

There are some things we have in common, though. Most of them we have in common with all Christians, everywhere. These are the things you'll probably hear talked about most often, and even when we aren't talking about them they hold us together in all our differences and diversity.

We believe that God wants us to know him.

We believe that God has revealed himself in the Bible. We also believe that he has revealed himself most completely through Jesus Christ. Through Jesus, he has given his Holy Spirit to human beings so that we can know him and live with him.

We believe that Jesus is the world's hope.

God has intervened to rescue the world through his Son, Jesus, who came to us announcing that God is still in charge of his world. He demonstrated this by healing the sick, caring for the poor, and serving the marginalized. His death was for the sins of the world, and his resurrection broke the power of sin and death that terrorized our world.

We believe that the world needs rescuing.

The pain, sickness, grief, hatred, and death that is so evident in the world is not what God wants. It's the result of human beings, religious and non-religious, who don't know God trying to use his world to serve our own interests. We aren't able to save our world, or even ourselves, on our own. So God has intervened.

We believe that Jesus is coming again.

Jesus will return in God's time to end injustice, tyranny, sin, and death forever. He will give life to everyone who is associated with him, and end everything that causes evil. We don't claim to know when he'll come, but until then we wait for him by following his teaching and serving the world as he did.

If You Want to Follow Jesus...
Jesus promised that he wouldn't make it difficult to follow him, so we don't either. But following him should be a major life change, and people who have come to trust in Jesus have always done a few things to signify that change. 

First, they tell someone that they want Jesus to be in charge of their lives. It can be a close friend or family member, a small group, or a whole church. But they always tell someone they're going to try to let Jesus be in charge of their lives.

They always repent. Repenting just means turning, and all of us have stuff in our lives that we need to turn from if we're going to follow Jesus. Don't worry if you haven't figured out how you're going to do it yet. Just do it. Jesus will help you figure out how.

They've always been baptized. Baptism is as old as the Bible. It's something that most Christians through the centuries have in common. We've sometimes differed over "how" and "why", but it's a symbolic act that almost every Christian has done. It connects us with Jesus and his life, it symbolically washes away our sins, and it puts us under the influence of the Holy Spirit. At Northwest, we baptize by a quick immersion in water.

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