Our Vision & Values
OUR VISION
City on a Hill exists to lead peoples near and far to become devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
Our four Values
Grow in God
Growing in God begins with the Gospel. The Gospel is the good news that Jesus Christ, God’s Son, died on the cross and rose again from the dead, so that our sins might be forgiven and be accepted by God. Growing in God means you’ve become a Christian and you’re beginning to experience a personal relationship with Him, as you learn to follow his teachings found in the bible.
Grow in the Word
Growing in the Word begins with the bible. The bible is God’s story, his words of love to us. It tells us who God is, his purpose for the world, how we can know him, and how we are to live. Our church believes in the authority and inerrancy of the Bible. A person begins to change and grow as they are listening to, reading, studying, memorizing and meditating on the bible. And as you obey what God’s word says, you begin to change.
Grow with Each Other
Growing with Each Other means you’re a part of a small group community. You were not meant to be an island on a vast ocean. We were all made for each other. Whether you are a Christian or not, we believe that you will grow best when you are in community. Continue your search for God or deepen your relationship with God by making new friends here at City on a Hill, by asking the person who brought you here more about the Christian faith, and by joining a Life Group.
Reach the World
Reaching the World is the mission of the church. As our vision statement says, we believe that our purpose is to know God and to help others know him. Our church is doing our small part to reach our neighbors here in our city as well as our neighbors in different countries. We hope to see all Christians in our church share their faith with those in their circle of influence and to be involved in helping people meet God here in our city and abroad.
Our Statement of Faith
The creed of the Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad (KPCA) is as follows.
The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, the only inerrant, perfect rule of faith and deed.
There is only one God, and man shall worship only him alone; God is spirit, self-existent, and omnipresent, distinguishing himself from all other gods and the created. God is infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and love.
There are three Persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; He is the triune God, one in trinity, equal in power and glory.
God created all things visible and invisible by the power of his Word, and preserves and governs them, but God in his nature causes no sin. He acts all things by his plan according to his own will and governs all things to fulfill his purpose, which is good, wise and holy.
God created man, after his own image in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness with dominion over every living thing. All men of the world are of a sole source: [meaning we all descended from Adam and Eve.]
Our first parents, given the freedom to choose between good and evil, through temptation, transgressed the commandment of God. All mankind descending naturally from Adam, sinned in him and fell with him, in his transgression.
God sent his eternal, only begotten son, Jesus Christ to the world to save man from sin and the resulting corruption and punishment of sin, to give eternal life in his infinite love. In Jesus Christ God became flesh and through him can man be saved. The eternal Son became true man and possessed two distinctive personhoods in his nature, eternally as true God and true man, in two distinct natures, and one person forever. He being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, was of her substance, born of her, yet without sin. He obeyed perfectly the law of God, offered His body, become a true and perfect sacrifice and satisfied divine justice. For the purpose of reconciliation between God and man, He was crucified on the cross, died and buried. On the third day He arose again from the dead. He is sitting on the right hand of God making intercession for his people. From thence he shall come for the resurrection of the dead, and to judge the world.
The Holy Spirit being out of God the Father and God the Son, works salvation in man, convicts man of his sin and misery, enlightens man's heart to know Christ, renews man's will, exhorts him, and empowers him to accept Jesus Christ, who offers man the Gospel in grace, freely, and also works in us to bear the fruit of God's righteousness.
Before God created the world, he elected in his love, his own people to make them holy and blameless, predestined and adopted his children through Jesus Christ according to his pleasure and will, to the praise of the glory of his grace bestowed freely in the one he loves. However, the perfect salvation offered freely is so ordered to all mankind that they may repent their sins, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, rest upon him and follow him, obey the revealed will of God, be humble and conduct themselves in holiness, to the extent that whoever believes in Christ and is obedient unto him shall be saved. The particular benefits that are accompanied with justification are adoption as God's children, sanctification and glorification, for believers who are assured with God's salvation and joy in this world.
The sacraments instituted by Christ are baptism and holy communion; baptism of washing with water is to be administered in the name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, is the sign and seal of joining us in union with Christ, and the promise for our regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit and God's possession of us. Baptism shall be administered to those who make a confession of faith in Christ, and to their children. Holy Communion as that is, partaking of the bread and the cup, shall be served in remembrance of Christ's death, and for the benefit derived from Christ's death with which the believers are in union. Holy Communion shall be observed by God's people until the day of the Lord's coming, and is a sign of a promise of more faithful service unto the Lord and a sign of communion with the Lord and his people, who believe in him, and rest upon his atonement from which God's benefit flows to us. The benefits of the sacraments are not found in the sacraments themselves or any virtue of him by whom the sacraments are being administered, but only in the blessing by Christ and the working of the Holy Spirit in those who by faith receive the sacraments.
All believers shall dutifully join in church membership with instruction, have fellowship with one another among the believers, observe the sacraments and other ordinances, obey all the laws of the Lord, pray always, observe the Lord's Day as holy, assemble with believers to worship the Lord and listen attentively to the preaching of the Word of God, render offerings as God provides us abundantly, share with one another the mind of Christ, share also the same mind with all other people, endeavor to promote the expansion of the Kingdom of Christ upon the whole world, and wait expectantly for the appearance of the Lord in his glory.
The dead shall receive the reward according to the good and evil done in this world before the judgment seat of Christ when they will be resurrected on the last day. Those who believe in Christ, and are obedient unto him shall be truly forgiven and accepted by him in glory.