We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments to be the full record of God's self-disclosure to mankind. Scripture is fully trustworthy as our final and sufficient authority for all of life. (2 Timothy 3:16–17; 2 Peter 1:20–21)
We believe in the one living and true God, eternally existing in perfect unity as three equally and fully divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19–20)
We believe God the Father created all things in six literal days for His glory according to His own will (Revelation 4:11), through His Son, Jesus Christ. He upholds all things by the Word of His power and grace, exercising sovereign headship over all creation, providence, and redemption.
We believe that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son, moved by love in accordance with the will of the Father, took on human flesh. Conceived through the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the virgin Mary. He, being fully God and fully man, lived a sinless life and sacrificially shed His blood and died on the cross in our place. He arose visibly and bodily from the dead three days later and ascended into heaven.
We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ during this age. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He draws the unredeemed to repentance and faith, and at salvation imparts new spiritual life to the believer, bringing that person into union with Christ and the Body of Christ.
We believe that God created mankind—male and female—in His own image and likeness, free of sin, to glorify Himself and enjoy His fellowship. All human beings are totally depraved by nature and by choice, alienated from God without defense or excuse, and subject to God's righteous wrath. (Genesis 3:1–6; Romans 3:10–19)
We believe that salvation is found in none other than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ's death on the cross was the sole and complete payment for sins, fully satisfying God's righteous wrath, for each person that turns from sin in repentance and places their faith in Christ alone by grace alone. (Romans 8:37–39; 2 Corinthians 5:21)
We believe that marriage is created by God to be shared between one biological man and one biological woman, in a lifelong holy covenant. God designed sexual intimacy to be expressed and consummated only between a man and a woman when they are united as one flesh in marriage. (Genesis 1:27–28, 2:24; Matthew 19:4–6)
We believe that upon placing one's faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, the believer is made part of the Body of Christ, the one universal Church, of which Jesus Christ is the Head. The Scriptures command believers to gather locally in order to devote themselves to worship, prayer, teaching of the Word, fellowship, the ordinances of baptism and communion, service, and outreach to the world. (Ephesians 1:22–23; Acts 2:42–46)
We believe that Christian baptism is a public declaration of the believer's salvation in Christ, symbolized by immersion in water. The Lord's Supper is the united commemoration by believers of Christ's death until He comes and should be preceded by a careful self-examination. (Acts 2:41; Romans 6:3–6; 1 Corinthians 11:20–29)
We believe it is the aim, duty, and privilege of every believer and local church fellowship to glorify God by responding as active participants in the Great Commission call of Jesus Christ to go and make disciples of all nations. (Matthew 28:19–20)
We believe in and expectantly await the glorious, visible, personal, return of the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost. The lost will be raised to judgment and experience eternal wrath in hell. The saved will be raised to eternal joy in the new heaven and new earth. (1 Thessalonians 4:13–18)
