BELIEFS

We believe that the Bible, Old and New Testaments, is God’s written revelation to men, inerrant in the original manuscripts, and authoritative and sufficient for faith and practice.

We believe there is one living and true God, undivided in essence, Creator of all things, infinite and self-sufficient, eternally existing in three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe that man was created in God’s image to glorify Him and enjoy his fellowship in love, but fell into sin, and became inherently corrupt, unable to save himself, and hopelessly lost.

We believe that salvation is a gift of God by grace through faith, exclusively founded on the merit of the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross and not based on the merit or works of man.

We believe that Jesus Christ, God incarnate, lived a perfect life of obedience and through his sacrificial shedding of his blood on the cross, paid for the penalty of sin for all who trust in Him for salvation.

We believe that Jesus Christ had a bodily resurrection from the grave, confirming his deity, affirming the justification of believers, and is now sitting at the right hand of the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.

We believe that the Holy Spirit works as the agent of salvation in the believer by fulfilling the will of the Father and bringing glory to Jesus Christ through the work of regenerating, adopting, convicting, indwelling, instructing, empowering, guiding, interceding, and sealing work of redemption.

We believe that the church is the formed spiritual body of Jesus Christ, composed of regenerated believers, of which Christ is the Head.

We believe that God unchangingly creates each person as male or female and that God established marriage to be exclusively the union between one man and woman.

We believe in the imminent return of Jesus Christ and the bodily resurrection of the dead, at which Jesus will judge all mankind—the believer to everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord; of the non-believer to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment.