Our MISSION: Grow in Christ, deepen into community, and reach our world.
Our VISION: We strive to be Christ-centered: cultivating disciples, rooted as family, and alive as missionaries to remember Christ and proclaim His kingdom until He returns.
Roots Community is a people searching to grow in Jesus, deepen in community and reach our world. We strive to be Christ-centered, cultivating disciples, rooted as family, and alive as missionaries to remember Christ and proclaim His kingdom until He returns. This is possible because of the unity amongst those changed by the work of Christ. In Him and through His Spirit, we share something far more tangible than our differences; we share Christ. We have been adopted into the family of God through our faith in the work of Jesus on the cross. It is out of response to the love of Jesus that we dream and move forward as a church; not to earn love, but because we are loved; not to earn acceptance, but because we are accepted; not to earn anything, but because we have been given everything.
We are a church of Gospel Communities committed to the Scriptures and meeting weekly throughout our city. While intimate in nature, these communities are mission-focused, involved in acts of service reaching into our community. Each Gospel Community meets during the week to share life, dive deeper into the Gospel, and put to practice the core values and rhythms of our body.
We are becoming and raising up disciples of Christ to partake in the mission of Christ’s Church both here in Portland and worldwide. We believe that God’s Spirit is moving within the hearts of those living in Portland and He’s called us to participate with Him. We yearn to see God’s name lifted high and see those in our neighborhoods come to know Jesus Christ- His work, His power, and His love.
Transformation is attainable only through the Gospel; the good news that Jesus offered his life up for us so we might be redeemed, reconciled, and made holy. This good news extends to every person who would accept it, displaying His power and glory in all those who believe. We exist to know the Gospel more, experience the Gospel in community, and to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world.
We believe there is only one God, creator of heaven and earth, who exists eternally as three
persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit, each fully God yet each personally distinct from the
other. Genesis 1:1; Exodus 3:14; Matthew 28:19-20; John 14:15-17
We believe the Bible is God’s unique revelation to people. Both the Old and New Testaments
are fully inspired, without error in the original writings, sufficient to reveal to us all that God
requires us to believe and do, and are the final authority for what we believe and how we live.
No other writings are vested with such divine authority. Matthew 5:18; John 17:72; Timothy 3:16;
2 Peter 1:20-21; Psalm 119:105-106
We believe that the Father is holy. It’s because of His holiness that we, as sinners, cannot
stand in His presence, just as darkness cannot be in the presence of light. It’s also because of
the Father’s great love that we have been made alive together with Christ; by grace saved
through faith. The Father is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast
love, faithful, forgiving and just. 1 Samuel 2:1-3; Exodus 34:6-7; Isaiah 59; Ephesian 2:4-10
We believe Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, fully God and fully human, and lived a
sinless human life. He willingly took all of our sin upon Himself, died and rose again bodily,
and is at the right hand of the Father as our advocate and mediator. Someday soon, He will
return to fulfill the eternal plan of God. Matthew 1:22, 23; Isaiah 9:6; John 1:1-5, 14:1; 1
Corinthians 15:3-4; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 7:25
We believe the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin and draws people to Christ. He also dwells
within all followers of Jesus. He is available to empower them to lead Christ-like lives, and
gives them spiritual gifts with which to serve the church and reach out to a lost and needy
world. 2 Corinthians 3:17; John 16:7-13, 14:16-17; Acts 1:8; Ephesians 5:18
We believe all people are created in God’s image and are exceedingly valuable to Him.
Central to the message of the Bible is that God loves people, and invites them to live in
communion with Himself and community with each other. Genesis 1:26-27; John 3:16-17; Acts
2:42-47; Colossians 3
We believe, apart from Jesus Christ, all people are spiritually dead and, because of sin,
deserve the judgment of God. However, God gives salvation and eternal life to anyone who
trusts in Jesus Christ and in His sacrifice on their behalf. Salvation cannot be earned through
personal goodness or human effort. It is a gift that must be received and is secured by
humble repentance and faith in Christ and His finished work on the cross. Romans 3:21-26;
Romans 5:1-11; Ephesians 2:8-9
We believe the local church is a mosaic of believers who gather for worship, prayer,
instruction, encouragement, mutual accountability, and community. The Church is made up of
all true believers in Jesus Christ and her purpose is to love, know, and worship God, make
disciples, and serve our fellow man – to the praise of His glorious grace. Through the local
church, believers invest time, energy, spiritual gifts, and resources to fulfill the Great
Commission. Baptism and Communion are practiced by Roots Community Church as key
identifying symbols of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Acts 2:38, 42-47; Matthew 28:16-20;
Romans 6; Hebrews 10:25; 2 Timothy 2:2; 1 Corinthians 11:23-36, 12:7; Acts 1:8
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