Because we believe we are all sinners, we believe we all need a Savior. We believe that Savior is Jesus Christ. We believe he lived on earth fully human and fully divine. We believe he gave his life on the cross so that our sins could be forgiven. And we believe he rose again so we could have new life in Him.

We believe that while this gift of salvation is offered freely, we must accept it on faith. In faith, we surrender our lives to Jesus not only as Savior, but also as Lord. ("For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9) While works can never earn our salvation, we do believe that good work is the natural fruit of our salvation.

John Wesley teaches us concerning biblical salvation:

The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and works, to faith, and calling upon God; wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. ...

We are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by faith, only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort. ...

Although good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and spring out of a true and lively faith, insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known as a tree is discerned by its fruit.