God

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three divine persons, equal in power and glory – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  God is the creator and sustainer of all things.

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Jesus Christ

We believe in Jesus Christ, the eternally begotten Son of the Father.  He is the fully divine, living Word of God who also became fully human – conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.  His sinless human life, humble obedience to his Father’s will, sacrificial death and bodily resurrection made sufficient provision for the salvation of all people.  In his ascension, he returned to his Father, where he reigns as Lord, advocate, Great High Priest, and Coming Judge.

 

Holy Spirit

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the third person of the triune God, proceeding from and sent by the Father and the Son.  He is the personal expression of God’s power – instrumental in all his works.  He is the author and illuminator of sacred Scripture.  He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment.  He is the agent of the new birth, the one by whom we are baptized into the Body of Christ.  As the spirit of holiness, he indwells every believer and his Church, purifying and empowering his people for holy living.  He guides them into truth, comforts and encourages them, and enables them to fulfill the Great Commission.  He produces his fruit in the lives of believers and gives them spiritual gifts for the good of the Church.

 

Bible

We believe that the Bible, consisting of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is the written Word of God, verbally inspirit by the Holy Spirit and, therefore, true, reliable, and without error in all it addresses.  We believe the Bible has been safeguarded by the Holy Spirit and transmitted to the present day without any doctrinal corruption. The Bible forever remains the unchanging and final authority for faith and living.

 

Salvation

We believe that Christ is the atoning sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.  Salvation is a divine gift given to any who repent and believe.  Repentance and faith are the divinely enabled human responses to the grace of God.  By the power of the Holy Spirit, a sinner must turn away from sin and embrace God – thus appropriating the benefits of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.  All who truly believe and receive Christ are fully justified, reconciled to God, born of his Spirit, adopted as his children, and united with Jesus in his death and resurrection.  They will one day see him in his glory and be glorified themselves, as God brings his redemptive work to completion.

 

Church

We believe that the invisible and universal Church is a spiritual body comprised of all believers, both living and dead – over which Christ himself is Head and Lord

 

Ordinances

We believe that baptism and the Lord’s Supper were instituted by the Lord Jesus himself – not as a means of salvation, but as outward signs of the salvation we have by faith.  They are the divinely mandated means by which believers publicly affirm their faith in Christ.  Water baptism symbolized the spiritual union that every believer has with Jesus in his death, burial, and resurrection.  Therefore, we believe that the biblical pattern is baptism upon profession of faith in Christ, and furthermore, that it should be administered by immersion whenever possible.