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What We Believe

Our Belief Neighborhood Ministries Church in Phoenix, AZ

A Love That Forms,

A Faith That Walks With

At Neighborhood Ministries, we believe in a God who draws near—and calls us to do the same. Our faith is not abstract. It is lived out in the daily rhythms of presence, belonging, compassion, and justice.

 

We are followers of Jesus, rooted in Scripture, animated by the Holy Spirit, and shaped by decades of community life in neighborhoods where hope has been hard-won.

Our Core Beliefs

God’s love is for everyone.

The Gospel is embodied.

Belonging precedes belief.

Faith is formed through relationship.

Healing happens in community.

We are called to stay.

Come As You Are

If you’re looking for a faith that lives where the people are—welcome.

If you’re seeking a theology of compassion, not control—welcome.

If you want to know what love looks like in hard places—come and see.

This is what we believe. And this is the life we are trying to live.

Why This Matters

We are often called "church" by the community—not because of pews or programs, but because of how we love.

 

Our theology is woven into everything we do. It shapes how we mentor youth, how we respond to families in crisis, how we worship, how we hire, how we pray, and how we organize for change. We are formed by the people we serve.

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Spiritual Formation for All Ages

From Kids Life and youth Bible studies to morning devotionals and community prayer walks, spiritual formation is the heartbeat of every program. We don’t separate “faith” from our other work—it is the thread that holds it all together.

A Faith That Lives in the Neighborhood

We believe God is already present in the neighborhood—already at work in families, in young people, in the marginalized and the misunderstood. Our job is not to bring God to the city, but to join God there.

 

We believe in resurrection—not just as a theological idea, but as something we’ve seen: in the healing of broken families, the rising of youth leaders, and the restoration of trust.

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The Bible consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word of God, and of final authority in all matters of faith and practice.

 

There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and He is all-knowing, all-powerful, just, merciful, wise, unchangeable, and gracious.

 

Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Son of Man, fully God and fully Man – born of a virgin, perfect in His person and eternal in His being.

 

We believe that mankind was created in the image of God and was originally without sin. Because of the sin of Adam and Eve, all of mankind are now sinners both by nature and by choice and are unable to remedy their own lost condition.

 

Jesus Christ died on the cross to rescue us from our helpless state – paying the penalty for our sin – and He rose from the dead on the third day, ascended into Heaven, and now sits at God’s right hand as our Mediator.

 

By God’s grace, those who trust in the work of Christ for their salvation inherit eternal life and are sealed with the Holy Spirit.

 

Because salvation is a work of God’s grace, believers are eternally secure and released from relying on their own abilities and merits to earn acceptance from God.

 

Because of God’s grace believers are freed to love as Christ loved, which should lead to unity, greater knowledge of Christ, maturity and the expression of gifting for the benefit of the Church.

 

The Lord Jesus Christ will return soon, and there will be a resurrection of the saved to eternal life, and of the lost to eternal and conscious judgment.

The Nicene Creed

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.

 

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.

 

Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.

 

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;

he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the

living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

 

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,

the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son.

With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. 

He has spoken through the Prophets.

 

We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.