Origin Church: Our Mission
To lead people ONE STEP. CLOSER. TO JESUS. Origin is really simple: We will focus on creating environments and will give of our time, energy, and resources into four key areas: Worship, Service, Small Group, and Family Ministries.
Origin is a church for the "spiritual," "irreligious," "bad," "broken," "bored," "agnostic," "atheist," "guilty," "shameful," "saintly," and the "stagnant." What we're trying to say is that you don't have to have it all together to come to Origin Church. In fact, we prefer it that way! Origin is an upbeat, highly relational, transparent, authentic, and safe environment where people can discover God's potential for their lives.
Our 6 Core Values
Irresistible Environments
Every environment should be designed to effectively connect with its target audience.
Irresistible Service
Our spiritual gifts have maximum impact when exercised in support of our strategy. We have a passion to serve "inside" Origin and "outside" Origin to our community.
Irresistible Relationships
Accountability, belonging, care, and spiritual growth happen best with relationally connected believers. We believe it can happen best through the provision of authenticity and transparency.
Irresistible & Intentional Apprenticing
We are responsible for passing along to others the knowledge, skills, and opportunities that have been entrusted to us.
Irresistible Intimacy with God
God desires an intimate relationship with each of us. Therefore, God's message of forgiveness through Christ is most effectively conveyed within the context of personal relationships, which is where we share our faith with others.
Irresistible Biblical Authority
God has spoken to us through the Bible and we recognize it as the final authority for our lives.
What We Believe
We believe that just as Jesus was/is irresistible, so should the church be; so, our desire is to create a church that would be people's number one option for the weekend, because of what we do and what we believe.
About the Bible:
The Holy Spirit inspired human authors to write the books of the Bible. God himself chose every word of Scripture. The Bible is God’s love letter to all of humanity and is the final authority in every issue it communicates. It is complete Truth, and we can trust it for all matters in this life and eternity.
About God:
Scripture teaches that God created every thing we can see (and even everything we can’t see) out of nothing. Although it might be difficult for the human mind to comprehend, the Bible teaches that He is one, yet has existed since the beginning of time as three distinct and equal persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
About Jesus:
Jesus Christ is God’s Son and an equal of the Father. He has existed from the beginning of time, yet lived on earth during the first century A.D. Throughout His earthly life, he was completely God and completely human at the same time. After living a perfect, sinless life, Jesus offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for every human being who has ever lived by dying on a Roman cross. After three days in the grave, he defeated sin and death by rising from the grave. He then ascended to Heaven and will return to earth one day to reign as King.
About the Holy Spirit:
The Holy Spirit is a full and equal part of the Trinity. He works in the world to make all people understand their need for Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit lives inside every follower of Jesus from the moment they decide to follow Him. The Spirit is our power source for life, ministry and spiritual growth. To tap into that power, we must continually yield to the Holy Spirit.
About Salvation:
Our disobedient nature has eternally separated us from our Creator. No matter how hard we try, we can never earn our way back into God’s presence. Our only hope is to trust Jesus as God’s provision for our disobedience. Whenever you make that decision, you step into the eternal and abundant life Jesus promises for all believers.
About Eternity:
God made you to exist forever. Heaven is a perfect place, and since none of us is perfect, we are all headed for an eternity of separation from God. That’s why God sent Jesus: to pay the price for our sins so that we can spend eternity with Him. What you decide about Jesus Christ in this life will determine where you will spend eternity. If you reject Him, you’ll be eternally separated from God in Hell. If you accept Him, you’ll spend it eternally connected with Him in Heaven.
About Eternal Security:
Your salvation is through the most trustworthy being in the universe – Jesus Christ! You didn’t do anything to earn your salvation, and you can’t do anything to lose it. Your salvation is maintained by God’s trustworthiness and love not by what you do.
About the Church:
The Bible tells us that the church is the body of Christ in the world today. The New Testament tells us the church is a local body of baptized believers. The head of the church is Jesus Christ. The biblical purposes of the church are worship, evangelism, fellowship, discipleship and ministry to others.
About Christ's Return
God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth, the dead will be raised and Christ will judge all men in righteousness.