Our Beliefs

God

There is one God: “Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one” (Deuteronomy 6:4). “He is God; there is no other besides Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35), the unbegotten God, first cause, and single source. He discloses Himself in the testimony of creation and through the Scriptures of the Jewish people, and he reveals Himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, interacting with His creation as the Father working through the Son and in the power of the Spirit. (Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 4:4–6)

Yeshua

Yeshua is the Son of God, the Messiah, the Eternal One in whom all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form, and who is the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us, and whose glory we beheld, the glory of the uniquely begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth (John 1:1–14; Colossians 2:9).

The Holy Spirit

The Spirit of God comforts, teaches, leads, indwells, and empowers all whom God regenerates (Acts 9:31; 1 John 2:27; John 16:13; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Timothy 1:7).

The Bible

The Bible, both the Tanach (Old Testament) and the Apostolic Scriptures (New Testament), are the only inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16–17).

Sin

All have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).

Salvation

Yeshua’s death and resurrection accomplished atonement for all who place their faith in him. Whoever trusts in God, in his work alone, is made a new creation in Yeshua, is indwelt by the Spirit of God, and is transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his own Son (Ephesians 2:8–9; Romans 5, 6).

Good Works

One is justified by faith through the grace of God alone and not by human efforts. One may not earn, merit, or keep this eternal salvation by his own efforts. A new creation is the work of God alone (Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 8:29–39).

The Church

All believers in Yeshua the Messiah enjoy spiritual unity and equality (Ephesians 2:11–22).

Israel

God’s covenants with the Jewish people, the physical people of Israel, are still in force (Jeremiah 31:35–36 and parallel passages). Part of the fulfillment of these covenants is the physical return of the Jewish people to their promised land (Deuteronomy 30).

The Nations

All non-Jewish people who trust in Yeshua are grafted into Israel. While this does not make them Jewish, they are full and equal participants in the covenants of promise (Ephesians 2:12; Romans 11:11–24; Jeremiah 31:33).

The Torah

The Torah is a revelation of the righteousness of God and a description (along with the rest of Scripture) of the lifestyle of the redeemed community (Matthew 5:17–19; 2 Timothy 3:16–17).

The Second Coming

The Messiah will literally, physically return to rule and reign upon the throne of David in Jerusalem. This will happen before the prophesied thousand-year kingdom begins (Zechariah 14; Revelation 19–20).