identity & beliefs
Jesus shows us that God is Love
At Lake Ridge, we believe that love is at the heart of who God is—and at the heart of who we are. Every person is created in the image of God, which means our truest identity is rooted in love. We’re learning to live out that identity in community, starting right here in Chestermere. Our love for God is reflected in the way we love our neighbours, and our faith takes shape through everyday acts of kindness, service, and compassion.
We trust that the Holy Spirit is at work—calling us, empowering us, and inviting us to join in God’s good mission to make all things right and reconcile all to him. Whether it’s in our homes, schools, workplaces, or neighborhoods, we believe the Kingdom of God is near—and we get to be part of it.
Jesus is the Way
We believe that Jesus is the son of God and that we come to know God through relationship with Him. We believe that when we focus on nurturing an authentic relationship with Jesus, we can become more like Him. As we grow in our Christ-likeness, we begin to see our lives are filled with a deeper sense of meaning and purpose and we come to experience not only our own sense of belovedness, but we begin to recognize and respond to the belovedness of all those around us. A relationship with Jesus transforms us and all of our other relationships by allowing us to look out at the world with the eyes of Christ. A relationship with Jesus changes everything.
Jesus makes room
We believe that God invites all people into relationship with Him and Jesus makes a way so that everyone can have fellowship with God. God rewards those who earnestly seek Him (Hebrews 11:6). Jesus didn’t keep his distance from the messy parts of life. He sought out friendship with those on the margins—sinners, outcasts, and strangers—and invited them to follow Him. We want to live that way too: welcoming the stranger, turning strangers into friends, and creating a community where no one has to pretend to have it all together. We acknowledge that no one is perfect and we all fall short of the glory of God. We celebrate that the perfection of God is demonstrated by His ability to include and redeem imperfection in the process of healing a broken world.
Jesus is the living Word of God
“So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness.” (John 1:14).
We believe we’re invited into the ongoing story of God—a story fulfilled in Jesus and lived out today in real time. The Bible reveals God’s heart for His people and is a foundation where our faith can grow deep roots and find steady ground. We are surrounded by a “great cloud of witnesses,”(Hebrews 12) - pioneers, veterans, and wise voices of faith who have walked with Jesus before us and demonstrate what a life of faith in Christ looks like. We are shaped by the influence of Christian saints and mystics, the historic creeds of our Christian faith, and the statements of faith expressed by the Evangelical Covenant Church. We believe that God’s story of love, redemption and reconciliation is still unfolding—and Jesus is Good News for everyone. That’s a message worth living, worth sharing, and worth celebrating.
Our Roots
Lake Ridge Community Church is part of a larger church family called the Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada. The ECCC was founded in 1904 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by Swedish immigrants who had a passion for the Bible, for sharing the good news of friendship with Jesus, for gathering to worship and for working together for the sake of our neighbours.
Today the Evangelical Covenant Church is a growing multiethnic denomination in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents of the world. We are united by Christ in a covenant of churches empowered by the Holy Spirit to obey the great commandments and the great commission: to love God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind, to love our neighbours as ourselves, and to go into all the world and make disciples. As a family of churches, we enjoy diversity as we work together in unity for our common mission in Jesus.
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“A disciple is a person who had decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do”
— Dallas Willard