Oakley Chapel United Methodist Church, Rogers AR

We believe Christian faith is grounding our lives in the living God as revealed especially in Jesus Christ. It’s both a gift we receive within the Christian community and a choice we make. It’s trusting in God and relying on God as the source and destiny of our lives. Faith is believing in God, giving God our devoted loyalty and allegiance. Faith is following Jesus, answering the call to be his disciples in the world. Faith is hoping for God’s future, leaning into the coming kingdom that God has promised. Faith-as-belief is active; it involves trusting, believing, following, hoping.

We believe in order to know God more fully, we must think together in a community of believers about faith and discipleship. Together we must reflect on the gospel, and examine the various beliefs we hold as a church. Some may say that the study of God is only for professional theologians; however, we believe all of us, young and old, lay and clergy, need to work at our understanding of God so that our beliefs will actually guide our day-by-day actions and so we can communicate our belief to an unbelieving world.