Fellowship Alliance Chapel

What We Believe

We are part of the Christian Missionary Alliance, a denominational movement animated to spread the good news of God’s saving work in Christ to the whole world. “All of Jesus for all the world.” Our denomination is often described as a “big tent” for lots to get under. We know choosing a new church family is an important task. Many factors are involved, and the most critical is—“What do they believe and teach about God?” Here are the coordinates that can help you place us on the “evangelical map” to see if we live in the same belief neighborhood.

The Gospel

What God has communicated in His work of the cross is so powerful that it penetrates to the very deepest parts of a person’s self-understanding. God made everything, including you, for a beautiful purpose. We as a race decided we found something else besides God beautiful and have pursued that with every moment of every day He has given us. This makes us guilty of betrayal and greed. In God’s mercy, He poured out His loving rage against our betrayal onto His Son, the person of Jesus, so that He could be a God of holiness and justice and righteously save some. Even this truth as powerful as it sounds is willfully ignored by everyone in their natural state. God in His grace sends the Holy Spirit to make that message audible to us so that in it, we hear Him call to us. This call draws us to agree that we are rebels in need of forgiveness, and it makes us able to believe that Jesus death on the cross can make us innocent and justified before God. Salvation from start to finish is from the Lord. What a miracle!

Basic Beliefs

We are committed to the classical orthodox Christian faith. This was expressed first in the Apostles Creed and then recovered and expressed by the Protestant Reformers in the “Five Solas” of the Reformation. Our commitment to the supremacy of the Bible leads us to affirm the Doctrines of Grace. We hold to classic convictions about God, the Bible, humanity, and the future, which are common to the historic creeds of the faith and expressed in a theologically modern way by the Gospel Coalition. As you hear preaching and teaching in classes, you will hear these doctrines expressed.

Theological Distinctives

We agree with the Chicago Statement that what the Bible says is what God says, and what God says is what we believe. At times, what God says about current movements in the culture needs careful articulation to keep the church faithful to the Bible’s teaching. Currently, God’s design for marriage, gendered differences, sexuality, and justice in society have needed clearly articulated statements. We are persuaded that the Danvers Statement, Nashville Statement, Dallas Statement, and the Alliance Statement of Faith are biblical.

Meet the Team

Elder Board

The Bible teaches that qualified elders are to govern the church under the Lordship of the one Owner of the church, Jesus Christ. Our Elder Board is a team of volunteers who provide spiritual oversight, protection, and accountability for the church. They entrust the leadership, vision, and strategy execution to ministry leaders and staff. This system of organizational leadership, known as Policy Governance, allows the Elders to focus their gifts and time on their biblical mandate to protect and shepherd the church, while allowing ministry leaders (staff) the opportunity to maximize their gifts and talents as they lead their ministries and make practical decisions on how to implement and carry out the direction provided by the Elders.