Our Values and Beliefs

Like most cities in the United States, our community has many congregations and church bodies who call themselves "Christian". This diversity shows us that there is no universal agreement on Christian belief and practice.

At First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), we believe that faith is not limited to or defined by a set of creeds, dogma, or confessions. Instead, faith is a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and is lived out in community with each other.

We don't pretend to have all the answers. Instead, we are a community of believers constantly exploring and practicing our faith together. We have found through painful experience that labels like "conservative" and "liberal" do more to divide than to bring people together.

So we start with a simple confession of faith that few Christians would dispute: "I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and I accept him as my Savior".

From there, we trust in God and the presence of the Holy Spirit to guide each of us to authentic faith through study of the Bible, examination of church traditions, the witness of individual Christians over the centuries, and our own experiences.

If you are a spiritual seeker, a skeptic, a sinner, or a saint, you will find company among in the community of First Christian Church. Come be with us!