Our Vision
We exist to see people saved and saved people grow
Our Story
Jesus. We’re not about a program, nor about our fame. Jesus is our purpose, our message, and our greatest joy. Here at Mercy (and in countless other Gospel churches across our neighborhoods), our community exists to point every person to Him - to see the dying come to know Him, and to see those who know Him become more like Him. We can certainly offer less than this, but we could never offer more. If you are without a spiritual family, we would love to partner with you. If you have a home, our hope is you serve your family well! Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever (1 Tim 1:17).
In Joy,
Pastor Eugene
Our Values
Our Beliefs
Bible
We believe that the Bible is the infallible Word of God, verbally inspired by God, and without error in the original manuscripts. We believe that God’s intentions, revealed in the Bible, are the supreme and final authority in testing all claims about what is true and what is right. In matters not addressed by the Bible, what is true and right is assessed by criteria consistent with the teachings of Scripture.
Trinity
We believe in one living, sovereign, and all-glorious God, eternally existing in three infinitely excellent and admirable Persons: God the Father, fountain of all being; God the Son, eternally begotten, not made, without beginning, being of one essence with the Father; and God the Holy Spirit, proceeding in the full, divine essence, as a Person, eternally from the Father and the Son. Thus, each Person in the Godhead is fully and completely God.
Jesus
We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, the Savior of all people, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, true God, and true Man. We believe that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose bodily again on the third day, and physically appeared to His disciples. We believe in the bodily ascension of Jesus to heaven where He is exalted at the right hand of the Father.
Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is God, the Third Person of the Trinity; He convicts people’s hearts and brings them to repentance; He indwells those who confess that Jesus is Lord; He gives gifts to the Church. We believe that the gifts of the Spirit are manifested in the Church today as they did in the Early Church; the spiritual gifts are given to various members of the Church to build up the Body of Christ.
Creation
We believe that God created the universe, and everything in it, out of nothing, by the Word of His power. We believe Adam and Eve were created by God in His image and likeness and are the historical parents of the entire human race; that they were created male and female equally in the image of God, without sin. They were appointed for differing and complimentary roles in marriage as a type of Christ and the church. Thus, marriage as designed by God is between one man and one woman.
Fall
We believe that the first humans, Adam and Eve, were created by God in His image and were originally innocent but rebelled against God’s will and fell into sin. All of their descendants inherit the sinful nature, which hinders them from being fully human, which is to reflect God’s image. All persons are thus corrupt by nature, enslaved to sin, and morally unable to delight in God and overcome their own proud preference for the fleeting pleasures of self-rule.
Salvation
We believe Jesus Christ is the Good News. He came to reconcile us with God. He lived a life without sin and willingly died on the cross to pay the penalty for our transgressions and was raised on the third day in victory. Thus, there is no other name nor means by which we are saved. Salvation is a gift of God received by faith alone. Faith is thus the sole instrument by which we, as sinners, are united to Christ, whose perfect righteousness and satisfaction for sins is alone the ground of our acceptance with God. This acceptance happens instantly when we believe.
Sanctification
We believe, nevertheless, that the faith, by which the gift of salvation is received, does not remain alone in the person saved, but produces, by the Holy Spirit, the fruit of love and leads necessarily to sanctification. We believe that God calls us to live in holiness and in His will, which we are able to fulfill only with the help of the Holy Spirit and through growing knowledge of God.
The Church
We believe it is God’s will that the universal Church find expression in local churches in which believers agree together to hear the Word of God proclaimed, to engage in corporate worship, to practice the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, to build each other’s faith through the manifold ministries of love, to hold each other accountable in the obedience of faith through Biblical discipline, and to engage in local and world evangelization. The Church is a body where each member matures and grows in their likeness to Christ. And each member should find a suitable ministry for His gifts; it is the household of God in which the Spirit dwells; it is the pillar and foundation of God’s truth in a truth- denying world; and it is a city set on a hill so that men may see the light of its good deeds – especially to the poor – and give glory to the Father in heaven.
Future
We believe that when Christians die, they are made perfect in holiness, are received into paradise, and are taken consciously into the presence of Christ, which is more glorious and more satisfying than any experience on earth. We believe in the blessed hope that at the end of the age Jesus Christ will return to this earth personally, visibly, physically, and suddenly in power and great glory; and that He will gather His elect, raise the dead, judge the nations, and establish His kingdom. We believe that the end of all things in this age will be the beginning of a never-ending, ever-increasing happiness in the hearts of the redeemed, as God displays more and more of His infinite and inexhaustible greatness and glory for the enjoyment of His people.