Abide Christian Fellowship aligns with the Baptist Faith & Message 2000. We also hold these core values and principles in our ministry efforts as a church:

Gospel Centered: As a congregation, we wholeheartedly embrace what are traditionally known as the “ordinary means” of word and sacrament (baptism and communion). Every component of our corporate worship gatherings—praying, reading, singing, preaching, listening, and communion—should point to the work of Jesus Christ and serve to make us more like Him. To this end, we believe that Gospel-Centered Biblical exposition (verse-by-verse preaching) is the best approach for developing mature Christ followers and should be the normative approach to preaching and teaching the Scriptures within the local church. 

Intentional Discipleship: The goal of the church is to glorify God by taking the Gospel to the world and making disciples, and mature disciples can only be made in the context of relationships. We will develop intentional environments where followers of Christ can grow in their understanding of Jesus, His word, and their role in His mission under the guidance of other mature believers. 

Whole Life Sacrifice: As Christ came to serve and not be served, we seek to lead by being last. Abide Christian Fellowship embodies an “all hands on deck” mentality. We believe every believer has been gifted by God and equipped by the Holy Spirit to serve within the church, and we seek to do so humbly as we put others before ourselves and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 

Sacrificial Giving: Christ gave all of Himself so that we might be saved, and the mission of the church advances through the sacrificial gifts of time, treasure, and talent. We trust that covenant members will faithfully honor their membership covenant and consistently give financially to the ministry of ACF and to use their spiritual gifts faithfully to the best of their ability for the glory of God. 

Missional Engagement: Jesus Christ came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10). In the same way, he commands us to pursue a lost and dying world with the hope of the gospel. Our evangelistic strategy goes beyond simply inviting people to worship with us on the weekends and moves into serving our family, neighbors, and community. We strive to be deeply involved in our families, our neighborhood, and our places of work and find ways to advance the Gospel where we have been planted. Our mission field is wherever we are in any given moment. 

Dependent Prayer: We will pray corporately, together in homes, and in our personal devotions to the Lord, prayers that require His moving. We will boldly approach the throne, pleading for the Lord to rescue the lost, heal the sick, open the eyes of the blind, and bring about the revival of our culture in our day and time. 

Authentic Community – As the early church revealed, it is through true biblical community that the gospel spreads, so we, too, desire to build a covenanted community whose lives before the Lord are marked by a genuine yearning to resemble our Lord. We will love through word and deed, holding tightly to the scriptures for encouragement and refining. We desire to be marked out as a community of faith, and as a genuine family whose head is Christ alone.