WHAT WE BELIEVE

We believe in one sovereign God, eternally existing in Three Persons: the everlasting Father; His One
and Only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord; and the Holy Spirit, the Giver of life; and we believe God created the
heavens and the earth out of nothing by His spoken word, and for His own glory.

We believe God has revealed Himself and His truth in the created order, in the Scriptures, and
supremely in Jesus Christ, and that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are inspired by God
and inerrant in their revelation of the Word of God (Christ Jesus), in their witness to the words of God,
and in the revelation of the apostolic standard of faith and practice.

We believe Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and was true God
and true Man, existing in one Person and without sin; we believe in the resurrection of the crucified body
of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life there for us as Lord of all, High Priest,
and Advocate.

We believe God directly created Adam and Eve, the historical parents of the entire human race, and
that they were created in His own Image, distinct from all other living creatures, and in a state of original righteousness.

We believe that our first parents sinned by rebelling against God’s revealed will and thereby incurred
both physical and spiritual death; as a result, all human beings are born with a sinful nature that leads
them to sin in thought, word, and deed.

We believe in the existence of Satan, sin, evil powers, and the spirit of the world and that all these have
been defeated by God in the Cross of Christ.

We believe the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and
substitutionary sacrifice, triumphing over all evil, and that all who believe in Him are declared righteous
and forgiven of all their sins by His shed blood.

We believe water baptism and the Lord’s Supper are not requirements for salvation, but outward
expressions of an inward love for Jesus, acts of obedience that please God, encouraged and administered after rebirth by the Holy Spirit.

We believe all who believe into Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become
children of God and are enabled to offer spiritual worship acceptable to God.

We believe the Holy Spirit indwells and gives life to believers, enables them to understand the
Scriptures, empowers them for fruitful, godly living, and equips them with power for service and
witness.

We believe the one, holy, universal Church is the Body of Christ, comprised of all those who have been
gathered into Christ.

We believe in the blessed hope that Jesus Christ will soon return to this earth, personally, and visibly in
power and great glory, to raise the dead, to gather His elect, to judge the nations, and to bring His
Kingdom to fulfillment.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the righteous and unrighteous, the everlasting death of
the lost, and the everlasting life of the saved.