OUR CORE VALUES

If our mission is what we are meant to do, and our vision is what we hope to accomplish, then our values describe the kind of church we need to be. We believe these six values are foundational for what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. Everything we do as a church will be shaped by these values. The C.H.R.I.S.T acronym helps describe the values of 2|42.


  • Church -  We value the church as the bride of Christ, the hands and feet of Christ, and as the light of the world. (Ephesians 5:25-27; 1 Corinthians 13:13; Matthew 5:14-16)

  • Home -  We value the home as the place for teaching, as the place for modeling the Gospel, and as the place for prayer. (Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Ephesians 6:1-4)

  • Relationships - We value relationships to model the union within the Trinity, to bring people to Christ, and to build one another up. (John 3:16; Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Thessalonians. 5:11)

  • Investments - We value investing our talents, our time, and our treasure for the advancement of the gospel. (Romans 12:4-8, Acts 2:42-47, 2 Corinthians 9:6-7)

  • Sharing - We value sharing the Gospel, sharing our personal testimony, and sharing our lives. (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:42i-27)

  • Transformation - We value the transformation in being a new creation, in the renewing of the mind, and in bearing good fruit. (2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 12:1-2; Colossians 1:10)

THEOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVES

These beliefs are not as central as our core values, but they shape our DNA. Our theological distinctive shape our doctrinal teaching and beliefs.


  • God - We believe in God who eternally exists as one God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Deuteronomy 6:4, Matthew 5:48; Matthew 28:19)

  • Scripture - We believe in the Bible as the truth, authoritative, and a complete revelation of who God is. (Psalm 19:7-11; 2 Timothy 3:15-16; 2 Peter 1:20-21)

  • Humanity - We believe that all of humanity is guilty of death by birth and by actions, and deserving of death. Through the death of Jesus on the cross, there is the forgiveness of sins purchased once and for all. (Romans 3:23, 6:23; 5:8, 5:12-21; 1 Corinthians 15:20-23)

  • Jesus Christ - We believe in Jesus who is fully God and fully man. He lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should’ve died. (Matthew 1:20; John 1:1-4, 14; Philippians 2:6-11)

  • New Life - We believe that salvation has been provided through Jesus Christ for all men. Those who repent and believe in Him are born again of the Holy Spirit. (John 5:28-29; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Titus 3:4-7)

  • The Holy Spirit - We believe in the Holy Spirit who lives within all believers to empower, guide, and teach. He, also, convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and of judgment. (John 14:15-18; John 16:13; Acts 1:8; John 16:7-8)

  • The Church - The universal Church is the body of which Christ is the head. This body consists of all believers at all times and all places. (Matthew 16:18, Colossians 1:18,Ephesians 1:22-23; 5:23) The local church consists of a group of baptized believers who meet regularly to worship God, through the work of Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit. The local church is to teach and exhort the Word of God, and to celebrate and remember the word of Jesus through baptism and the Lord’s Supper, under the guidance of godly appointed leaders. (Acts 2:42-27; 14:23, 1 Corinthians 3:5-9)

  • The Future - We believe in the return of Jesus Christ to usher in the Kingdom of God in all its fullness. (Luke 21:27; John 14:1-3; Hebrews 10:37; Titus 2:11-14)

  • Baptism and the Lord’s Supper -  We believe in baptism and the Lord’s Supper (communion) as two ordinances of the local church that are symbolic reminders of the life, death, resurrection and return of Jesus Christ. Rather than requirements, these symbolic reminders paint a deeper understanding of the redeeming work of Jesus. Baptism is the initiation rite into the universal Church and local church and communion is the continuing rite as the universal Church and local church. (Romans 6:3-5; Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26)

  • Marriage - We believe that God created and ordained marriage, consisting of one man and woman complementing one another in a one-flesh union, to display the mysterious union of Christ and His Church. (Genesis 2:22-24; Ephesians 5:22-25)