About Us

Core Values

Core Values

GOSPEL

At St. John, we desire to see lives changed by the Gospel. Everything we do is shaped by the Gospel, which is the good news of what God has accomplished in the person of his Son - in His perfect life, sacrificial death, and victorious resurrection - to secure forgiveness of sins and fullness of life for all who will repent and believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior.

COMMUNITY

The gospel creates a redeemed and transformed community. St. John is committed to living life together and challenging one another to grow as disciples of Christ in the household of God.

MISSION

We have been rescued & redeemed by a loving and missionary God. Therefore, we seek to join His mission by making disciples among all nations and loving our neighbors with the love of Christ.

Our Vision

Our vision is to be a thriving, Christ-centered community   that transforms lives and impacts our city with God’s love.   We aspire to be a beacon of hope, welcoming all people to experience the life-changing power of Jesus, grow in         their faith, and live out their purpose.

Our Mission

...to share God's grace and truth so that people come to know, love, and serve Christ.

Leadership Team

Core Beliefs

There is only one true and living God who is the Creator of the universe. He exists eternally in three Persons - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.  

God The Father - reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.  

God The Son - Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit & born of the virgin Mary. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, & in His substitutionary death on the cross, He made provision for the redemption of men from sin.

God The Holy Spirit - is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.

The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.

Human Beings are created by God to bear His image. They are the crowning work of His creation worthy of love, dignity, and respect regardless of matters like age, ethnicity, race, gender, or class.

Because of the Fall, the image of God in people is distorted but not lost. All people have disobeyed God willfully through sin; thus inheriting both physical and spiritual death and the need for redemption. All human beings are born with a sin nature and into an environment inclined toward sin. Only by the grace of God through Jesus Christ can they experience salvation.

Jesus is the only way of salvation - Salvation comes only through Jesus Christ, the only mediator between God and man. No other religion, belief, or person can reconcile God and man. He alone can provide forgiveness and eternal salvation. 

Salvation comes only through a faith relationship with Jesus Christ, the Savior, as a person repents of sin and receives Christ’s forgiveness and eternal life. Salvation is instantaneous and accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit through the Word of God. This salvation is wholly of God by grace on the basis of Christ’s life, death and resurrection, not on the basis of human works. All the redeemed are secured in Christ forever. 

The Church - a united spiritual body of which Christ is the head and into which the Holy Spirit immediately places all people who put their faith in Jesus Christ.

The local church - a New Testament, autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. The church's scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.

Believer's baptism - the immersion of a believer in water. It is an act of obedience, symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer's death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.

Communion (The Lord's Supper) - a symbolic act of obedience whereby believers memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

God will bring the world to its appropriate end in His own time and in His own way. At that time, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth. He will judge both the saved and unsaved. Those who have trusted Christ will receive a glorified body and dwell forever with the Lord. Those who have not trusted in Christ will spend eternity in hell, the place of everlasting punishment.