Jesus stepped into human history over 2,000 years ago. He lived for 33 years, fully God and fully man. He is the son of God and came to bring peace to a world at war with itself. We believe that God expressed himself in human form through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary.
He lived a sinless life, and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice to be crucified for the sins of us all, was buried, rose again from the dead, and ascended to heaven where He is at the right hand of God and fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor and Advocate for those who believe in Him.
Jesus chose to sacrifice himself on the cross so that whoever believes in him could have eternity with him in heaven. He took on the weight of all the wrong + darkness humanity had ever created and stood in the gap for us to be seen as pure and blameless in the sight of God.
Jesus taught us how to live by faith, be known by love, and be a voice of hope to the world.
His life proved to us that:
Your future is on the other side of your failures.
Your greatness is on the other side of your pain.
Your freedom is on the other side of your fear.
I have decided to follow Jesus.
Your next step is to take ROOTS.
“Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.”
Baptism is an outward sign of an inward decision to follow Jesus Christ personally and be identified with His death, burial and resurrection.
In the New Testament, there was no such thing as an unbaptized believer. If you believed in Jesus, you were baptized by immersion, in the name of the Father, of the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19
