What We Believe
An ancient faith. A beautiful gospel.
A life rooted in the finished work of Christ.
This is the faith once delivered to the saints.
We anchor our faith in Scripture and in the historic Christian faith expressed through the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed. Our desire is not to create something new, but to keep returning to Jesus, the original language of Scripture, and the beauty of what He has accomplished.
We Believe
God is Love
One true God—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—eternally existing in perfect love and communion.
Scripture Reveals
The Bible is God’s inspired and authoritative Word, illuminated by the Holy Spirit and richly understood through its original language.
Jesus is Lord
Fully God and fully man—crucified, risen, ascended and victorious. In Jesus we see the Father and the fullness of God’s heart toward humanity.
It Is Finished
Salvation is by grace, not achievement. The cross is Christ’s decisive victory over sin, death and the powers of darkness.
Identity Before Performance
Transformation flows from knowing who we are in Christ. We do not strive toward identity; we learn to live from what He has made true.
The Kingdom is Here
The Kingdom of God is both present and ever-increasing. We are invited to participate in His life here and now.
Listening.
Learning.
Returning.
Our Statement of Faith has been shaped through an ongoing journey of prayer, listening, study and reflection. As our understanding has deepened, we have found ourselves returning again and again to something ancient rather than something new.
We hold our convictions with confidence and our limitations with humility—continuing to listen to the Holy Spirit and allowing Scripture to lead us more deeply into the beauty of Christ.
“Religion says: Do this and become.
The Gospel says: You already ARE—now live like it.”
Where We Stand
We believe:
The Bible is God’s inspired Word and our authoritative guide for life.
We affirm the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds, and the Trinity—one God in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, co-equal and co-eternal.
God is love (1 John 4:8)—not a God who merely has love, but Love at His essence; His goodness is the truest thing about Him.
Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, crucified, risen bodily, ascended, and coming again in glory. He is the only way to the Father, not one option among many.
On the cross our rescue was truly accomplished—Tetelestai, it is finished. The cross does not change the Father’s heart toward us; it reveals it.
Salvation is a gift already given in Christ—universal in scope but received, not automatic: we acknowledge Jesus as Lord and believe God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9). This is invitation awaiting response, not universalism.
Salvation is by grace alone (Ephesians 2:8–9)—not merely forgiveness, but God’s empowering presence transforming us from the inside out.
We are united with Christ—en Christō. In Him we died, were made alive, and are seated even now; this union is a present reality, not a future reward.
Transformation flows from identity, not performance. We don’t strive to earn holiness; we live from who we already are in Christ, and the Spirit works it out over a lifetime.
Sin is serious—it destroys life, wastes purpose, and produces real suffering. We take it more seriously, not less, because we know what it costs.
God’s justice is restorative—He disciplines to heal and set right, not to destroy; what Scripture calls “wrath” is His faithfulness to truth, not vindictiveness. The deepest questions of final judgment we hold with open hands, trusting the goodness and justice of God revealed in Jesus.
God’s design for human flourishing is perfect.
A Note on Our Foundation
We anchor our faith in the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds—the earliest consensus of the Church. The awakening message is not a departure from that faith but a deepening of it: reading the Greek closely and recovering an emphasis some of the early Fathers carried—Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus the Confessor, and the Eastern tradition of theōsis—on Christ’s complete victory and our union with Him. We aren’t adding to the faith; we’re leaning into what the gospel has always carried.
Our full convictions are unfolded in Awakening: Restorative Metanoia and its companion, The Awakening Glossary.
We confess Jesus Christ as Lord.
We confess that we are His beloved.
We confess that love is the final word.
Now live from it.
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