Needy and needed,

serving Christ and others before ourselves.

That is a play on words. Third Church was the third church of our particular denomination in Zeeland, but today we are third in another, more important, way: we want to be a people who serve. We think of ourselves as needy. None of us has it all together. That part we have figured out! But we are also needed. God always uses flawed, broken people to do his great work of rescuing the world.

So we are both needy and needed. We aim to serve Christ and others before ourselves. So that makes us third. That really is a great thing, because Jesus gives us what it takes to serve him and others. God uses us. He has done that in the past, he is doing it now, and he will keep on doing that.

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What We Believe

STATEMENT OF FAITH

The Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried;
he descended into hell;
on the third day he rose again from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.

Amen.

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Communion & Baptism

The Sacraments

These are the sacraments that Jesus gave us. It is God’s way of speaking to us. They are a way in which God points us to Jesus and assures us that Jesus’ accomplishments are ours. They help us know what God wants us to know. The water of baptism points us to the cleansing work of Jesus, and assures us that we are loved by God and part of his people. Baptism is really our entry, or initiation, into the church. God loves us first, and baptism is a sign of that. Baptism also reminds us that we die and rise with Jesus in his death and resurrection. The bread and fruit of the vine of the Lord’s Supper, or communion, point us to and assures us of what Jesus has done for us in his life, suffering, death and resurrection. Those who have been baptized and confess Jesus as Savior and Lord are invited to take part in the Lord’s Supper.