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Core Beliefs

At St. Paul, we believe that God deserves to be the subject of every sentence involving our spiritual lives:

  • God has created all that exists, and the truth of God’s power and love is revealed in the Holy Bible;
  • God intervenes in our broken lives, fractured relationships, and unjust world through a personal desire to bring peace and wholeness;
  • God entered human history in an intimate way through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ;
  • God loves, saves, and forgives us by grace alone;
  • God offers us a particular way of life through Jesus Christ that is a hope-filled alternative to the consumeristic and self-centered ways of the world;
  • God works through the church by the power of the Holy Spirit to create a world guided by generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness;
  • God offers the gifts of new life and forgiveness of sin through Christ’s sacraments of baptism and holy communion;
  • God changes lives through the Good News of Jesus Christ who calls on us to:
    • live lives of faithful discipleship
    • practice compassion and justice for a hurting world
    • welcome others to explore this life with us, no matter where we are on the journey of faith

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"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, ... For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." ~St. Francis of Assisi