We believe that the Holy Bible, composed of the sixty-six books from Genesis through The Revelation, is the very word of God. It is verbally inspired in every word and is our sufficient source for faith and teaching, correct regarding any subject which it addresses.
We believe there is but one Living and true God, an infinite, all-knowing Spirit, perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons–the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit–each equally deserving worship and obedience.
We believe Jesus Christ is the virgin-born Son of God, the only begotten of the Father by a miracle of the Holy Spirit. He is God incarnate and perfect man in one person, wholly without sin. He came into the world to reveal the Father, redeem men, and rule over God's kingdom. Jesus Christ died for our sins, was resurrected bodily from the grave on the third day, ascended to Heaven and is at the right hand of the Father today.
We believe the Holy Spirit is the third person of the triune God, equal in eternity and power with God the Father and God the Son. He indwells Christians and empowers them for evangelism and ministry within the church, according to His will. The Holy Spirit convicts men of their sin and testifies of Jesus Christ.
We believe man was created by God with the intention that he should glorify God, enjoy His fellowship, and live forever in God's will. Man sinned against God by His own free choice, resulting in the fall of the human race and in the radical congenital depravity of all mankind and ending in physical, spiritual, and eternal death. Mankind is incapable of obedience to God apart from salvation and is in need of redemption.
We believe the salvation of man is accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God when the repentant sinner, enabled by the Holy Spirit, responds in faith. Salvation is wholly of God by grace on the basis of the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, the merit of His shed blood, and not on the basis of human merit or works. All the redeemed are kept by God's power and are thus secure in Christ forever.
We believe the Holy Spirit baptizes all believers into the Body of Christ at the moment of salvation and then indwells, sanctifies, instructs, and empowers believers as well as sealing them unto the day of redemption. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are sovereignly given to individual believers according to His will.
We believe all who put their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual Body, the church, of which Christ is the head. The local church, representing this Body, is an autonomous congregation composed of individual believers associated for the propagation of the faith, the administration of the ordinances, equipping for ministry, mutual edification, and reproof and discipline of individual members.
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ committed two ordinances to the local church, baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Baptism is the immersion of repentant believers in water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, by authority of the Lord Jesus Christ The Lord's Supper, is a meal of remembrance where believers, gathered together as a church, proclaim the Lord's death and anticipate His return.
We believe in the literal return of Jesus Christ, the establishment of His Kingdom in its fulness and in the resurrection of the body for the judgment of believers and unbelievers. The righteous will enjoy eternal felicity in the presence of God while the wicked will suffer eternal punishment in the lake of fire.