Our Quest

Living life as friends with faith, by

• Knowing God,
• Loving others, and
• Making a difference.

Guide Posts That Orient Our Journey

Relationship above differences

People define love and grace in many different ways, from never confronting and keeping the peace to “tough love.”  God defined love and grace by sending Jesus, not when we were all in agreement or in right relationship with God, but when we had differences, disagreements, questions, wrong thinking, and sin.  Jesus offers a relationship of patient, empowering love first, above differences.

Self-feeding people

Just as we feed our bodies and would think it weird for a 20 year old to be spoon fed by their mother, so also, if we want a healthy relationship with God and others, each of us needs to take personal responsibility for feeding our own relationship with God through the exercise of spiritual habits and intentional exposure to teaching and worship individually and corporately.

Deeply spiritual AND deeply practical

In our practice of faith, so often we compartmentalize our lives into spiritual or mystical and practical wisdom.  We believe there is no separation between spiritual and practical.  God wants to impact us spiritually through the practical wisdom we learn in the business of life.  He wants to impact our way of doing the business of life through our spiritual experiences with Him.  Both and, not one or the other.

No ministry without a leader, a team and a coach

Everything is better when we do it with friends in a team.  Every great team has a leader and every great team regularly seeks feedback and counsel on how to improve.

Reproduction = maturity

Religion defines maturity as correct Biblical knowledge and being less sinful than others.  We believe maturity is recognized by the number of people we encourage to discover and be who God made them to be in increasingly right relationship with Him and others.  Biblical knowledge and moral character are aides to us experiencing right relationship with God and others that makes a lasting difference, not ends in themselves.

Giving our best…Oops, try again

We always achieve our highest, God-given potential when we are encouraged to set high goals (to believe in God’s high view of us) and are given grace when we fail to get back up and try again.

Who We Are

So often, life and faith get all messed up when the focus becomes being right, measuring up, performing or gaining favor with God and others.  Jesus came simply, living life as a friend with faith—you know, that honest, faithful friend in your life who …..  click here to read the rest of Why Quest Exists

Pillars of our faith*

• There is one living, creator God revealed as three persons: Father, Son (Jesus) and Holy Spirit
• The Bible is God inspired and the ultimate truth
• God is deeply involved in all of life
• God wants to be a friend to all
• We believe as literally true what the Bible says about Jesus’ origin, virgin birth, life, death and resurrection
• While all sin, Jesus forgives those who repent and commit to His leadership in their lives and on top of that God gives us His Spirit to lead us and help us live
• The things God did in the Bible still happen today through the work of His Spirit
• The church is all people who live under the grace and leadership of Jesus
• We celebrate baptism and communion as two Biblically commanded sacraments
• We believe God’s Spirit works and communicates through us in many ways, including prayer and laying on of hands for healing and setting apart leaders for God’s work
• Jesus is coming again:  Final judgment is real as is the amazing hope of heaven

*For a more complete description of what we believe are the pillars of our faith, see our official Faith Statement.