We seek to honor Christ and uphold his Church by striving to uphold the following core values:
- Scripture alone has ultimate authority and sufficiency; therefore, our doctrine comes from Scripture.
- We seek, by God’s grace, to equip and educate God’s people for the work of service.
- We must declare God’s glory both near and far. In doing this, we must ensure that the gospel we proclaim is the biblical gospel.
- We are committed to strengthen marriages and the family. We uphold covenant marriage and family as the first God-ordained unit of nurture and instruction in godliness. In this, we seek also to uphold the sanctity of life in our culture of death. Marriage is the monogamous and life-long relationship between one man and one woman.
- Worship of God should be both thoroughly biblical and deeply joyful; it must be God-centered, not man-centered.
- We uphold a regenerate church membership. Covenantal care and church discipline are parts of this membership.
- The church is always being reformed according to the Word of God. Hence, we uphold the importance of the expositional preaching and teaching of God’s word..
- We seek, by God’s grace, to be a model church and a sending church. We understand our church to affirm congregationalism, plurality of elders, and believers’ baptism by immersion.
- We long to be a prayerful church, deeply aware of God’s call upon his people to pray and his promise to answer prayer offered in faith and in accord with his will.
- We are committed to a godly and biblical leadership, composed of elders and deacons, with lay ministry teams carrying out many aspects of the work of ministry.
- We are a neighborhood church in the Clifton community. We seek to know and care for the needs of people in this particular community.
- We are committed to provide a place of worship and spiritual instruction that is safe, attractive, and honoring to God as a light to the community.