When asked which of God’s commands was the greatest, Jesus answered that the greatest is to love God with everything that you have; second only to that is to love our neighbor.
Jesus’ final words to his disciples were that we should teach what he taught & make disciples.
The thing that drives what we do at Mountainview is our mission, the mission of every Christian for 2,000 years:
We believe that new life in Christ, free from the guilt and condemnation of sin, is available to any person who believes that Jesus alone can rescue from sin and death, and reconcile us back to God the Father. That the Holy Spirit will indwell their entire self and regenerate them into a new creation.
We believe that the church is the community of all believers which have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and faith in Jesus Christ. That we are to bring light into all the world; neither withdrawing in seclusion from the world, nor becoming indistinguishable from it.
Jesus instituted two sacraments to teach the grace of God: Baptism and Communion. Baptism is the sign of the new covenant in Jesus, symbolizing the washing away of our sins through death and resurrection in Jesus Christ. Communion is the partaking of the bread and the cup, a remembrance of Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross.
We believe that God instituted marriage in the Old Testament and Jesus Christ reaffirmed it in the New Testament as a lifelong covenant relationship between one natural-born man and one natural-born woman. That sexuality is to be expressed and enjoyed as a good gift from God only within the covenant of marriage.
We believe that satan roams the earth to steal, kill, and destroy; that satan goes before the throne of the Father to make accusations against us and seeking to undo every good work of God. He will be thrown into the lake of fire for all eternity when Jesus returns to establish his eternal kingdom on earth.