Pleasant Community Church's Core Values
Pleasant Community Church is an evangelical church in that we believe in the inspiration of the Old and New Testaments and that they are the guides from which we are to live our lives. Living out in our daily activities what the Bible teaches is of extreme importance to us. We are also evangelical in that we believe in the need for a new birth experience among believers. In other words, we believe that when a person asks for forgiveness for his or her sins and desires for Christ to transform their life, that moment is marked by a change in one's attitude, way of thinking, and behavior. This is known as a new birth experience and is the time in which the Holy Spirit indwells that person, enabling him or her to live after God's priorities.
Pleasant Community believes that the only way to God is through faith in Jesus Christ, God's Son. That faith is in no way earned by a person, but is freely offered as a gift by God to those who would accept. But upon receiving this gift, responsibility comes; the responsibility to continually grow in relationship to Christ, to witness to others about what God has done for us through Christ, to worship God regularly with other believers, to spend time daily in the Bible individually and with others, to spend time praying and listening to God, and to care for the physical needs of other people.
Pleasant Community is part of the Evangelical Covenant Church and the American Baptist Church USA. We are the combination of two local churches who have merged together for ministry purposes, and who have decided to maintain ties to both denominations.
The ECC traces its roots to the pietistic movement in Europe after the Reformation, to the development of the Swedish Lutheran Church and later to the influence of American Revivalism under such figures as D.L. Moody. For more information on the ECC, please click on the tab to the left entitled "Evangelical Covenant Church."
The ABC traces its roots to 16th century English Congregationalism, which rejected the prevalent parish structure of church life where everyone in a given community was a member of a neighborhood parish and where children were baptized. The reaction against that structure was articulated in the concept of “the gathered church,” in which membership was voluntary and based on evidence of conversion, and where baptism (for the most part) was limited to believers. For more information about the ABC, please click on the tab to the left entitled "American Baptist USA."
