First Presbyterian Church of Santa Rosa

We are called to “walk worthy” of our calling by embracing a Spirit-formed unity that honors diversity, bears with others in love, and serves together through the gifted grace of Christ.

God meets the exhausted, despairing prophet Elijah with rest, food, and gentle presence, inviting us to trust that same tender care in our own experiences of despair.

The church is called to become a dwelling place for God’s fullness as believers receive the indwelling power and love of Christ and let it shape our message and mission.

As people transformed from a "before" state of division into an "after" reality of reconciliation with God and one another, the church is called to be a dwelling place for God’s presence, extending Christ’s peace to the world.

Our true identity is not self-made but God-given, rooted in being "in Christ," the promised Messiah. Believers are called to live into that identity through hope in resurrection, the inheritance of shared authority with Jesus, and access to God's transforming power.

God has chosen all believers before creation to be adopted into God’s family through Christ. We grow into this identity as ‘saints’ together as the messy, mixed, and Spirit-sealed community that is the church.

Stories of comfort, healing and hope in the Bible can guide us in developing personal and communal resilience.

Jesus makes God the Creator known, and the Holy Spirit interprets that which Jesus makes known about the Creator to the disciples and the church.

As we continue in the early church’s communal practices of Scripture, communion, fellowship, and prayer, we discover that our own community is powered by the same Spirit that filled the first followers of Jesus.

Jesus’ ascension shows that the kingdom is indeed being launched, but it’s nothing like the one people were expecting. Through the Spirit of God, that kingdom becomes a living and present reality in God’s people, so we can spread that rule everywhere we go.