In addition to God’s general revelation in nature, God has revealed himself in all the words of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, fully inspired and without error in the original manuscripts, written by men under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It is fully authoritative and our only absolute and trustworthy guide for life and faith.

(Romans 1:20; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21; Matthew 5:18; 2 Peter 3:16; 1 Corinthians 2:10-13; 1 Corinthians 10:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:14-15; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Romans 15:4)

We believe that there is one true, good, and living God who is creator and ruler of the universe. He is holy, sovereign and all knowing who exists in three coequal persons. God the Father, God the Son, and God Holy Spirit. We believe that the Trinity is without division of nature, essence, or being. The persons of the Trinity are equal in every divine perfection. They execute distinct but harmonious functions in the work of creation, history, providence, and redemption. God the Trinity possesses all life, glory, goodness, and blessedness in and of Himself. Although we do not see the word Trinity contained in the Scriptures, the term is used to convey the collective nature and being of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit as we see revealed in His Word.

(Genesis 1:1, 1:26; John 1:1, 1:3, 4:24, 5:26; Matthew 28:19; Romans 1:19-20, 9:5; Ephesians 4:5-6; Colossians 2:9)

We believe in God the Father, an everlasting, infinite, perfect personal being who directs and sustains all things through his Son and by his Spirit. He created the World out of nothing, expressing the glory of His power, wisdom, justice, goodness, and grace. By His power he continues to sustain His creation. He draws men to Himself through His son, forgiving the sin and delivering from death those who come to Him through Christ for Salvation.

(Psalm 73:25-26; 1 John 4:7-8; 1 Chronicles 29:11; Psalm 99:9; Psalm 139:1-18; 1 Timothy 2:5; John 14:16-17; 2 Peter 3:9; James 1:17; Psalm 18:30)

We believe that God the Son is Jesus Christ. He is fully God and fully man, one person in two natures, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus is the promised Messiah of Israel who obeyed God perfectly, living a sinless life and teaching the message of his eternal kingdom. As our substitution bearing our sin and guilt, He physically suffered, bled, and died, by crucifixion and was buried. Three days later he arose from the dead, with a resurrected body victoriously over Satan, sin, and death. He ascended to heaven where He reigns over all things at the Father’s right hand, interceding, for his people. He awaits the time when the father will send Him personally back to the earth to a final resurrection of His people, where He will judge His creation to usher in the final portion of redemptive history. He will continue to rule and reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

(Matthew 1:18; Luke 24:50-51; John 1:1; John 1:14; John 3:17; John 10:30-33; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Colossians 2:9; 1 John 2:2; 1 Peter 2:24)

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a fully divine person who is sent by the Father and the Son. He convicts the world of guilt in regard to sin, righteousness, and judgment; and persuades us through the proclamation of the gospel to confess Jesus as Lord. He provides the believer with power for understanding, believing and living out biblical faith. He is the abiding comforter and helper of the church, he effectually calls, sanctifies, empowers, baptizes, indwells, guides, teaches, and equips all believers for service and witness.

(Matthew 10:20; John 14:16-17; John 15:26; John 16:7-8; Acts 5:3; Romans 8:14; Romans 8:16; 1 Corinthians 12:3; Galatians 4:6; Titus 3:5)

We believe that God created all things. Those both visible and invisible for the manifestation of the glory of His eternal power, wisdom, and goodness. God created everything down to each molecule and galaxy. God created both Adam and Eve equally in his image and without sin. He created them with knowledge, righteousness, and holiness having God’s natural law of conscience written in their hearts and the power to fulfill that law. God created them so that he might love them and they might love him and glorify him.

(Genesis 1:26-31, 3:6, 3:17-19; Psalm 8:4-5, 51:5; Matthew 5:16; John 3:16-21; Romans 3:10, 5:12; Acts 17:27-28)

Adam and Eve received a command to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which allowed them, while they kept that command, to remain in perfect communion with God and have dominion over the whole earth and all living things. However after being influenced and seduced by the temptation of Satan, they lost their original righteousness. In their rebellion against God’s will they became dead in sin and wholly corrupted. As a result all mankind is born with Adam’s sinful nature so that they are depraved, alienated from God, spiritually dead and physically dying. Our sin has corrupted God’s good creation, bringing discord and disaster to society and nature.

(Genesis 2:16-17, 3:4-5, 3:6-8, 3:11, 3:23-24, 5:3, 6:5; Job 14:4; Psalm 51:5, Ecclesiastes 7:29, Romans 3:9-18, 3:23, 7:5, 8:7, 11:32; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22: 2 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 2:1-3; Colossians 1:21; Titus 1:15; James 1:14-15; 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10)

We believe all who repent of their sin and trust solely in Christ’s finished work of atonement, salvation, and redemption are united with Christ, justified by His death and resurrection, reborn and adopted into the family of God, forgiven of all their sin, indwelt and illuminated by the Spirit, kept and assured of their salvation, empowered for Christian service, and added to the universal church. There is no way we can make up for our sin by self-improvement or good works. He alone justifies, sanctifies and glorifies sinners. This glorious display of God’s sovereignty provides us with evidence of His goodness and grace, and shows us He is infinitely wise, holy and unchangeable.

(John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:21-31; Ezekiel 11:19; John 6:44-45; John 10:27-29; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:37-38; Romans 8:9-11; Romans 8:15-17; Galatians 2:20; Galatians 4:4-5; Ephesians 1:5; Ephesians 1:18-20; 2 Timothy 1:8-9)

We believe that the one, holy, and universal church is the body and bride of Christ. The Holy Spirit descended at Pentecost to establish the church. The true church consists of all New Testament believers in heaven and on earth who have been justified by grace through faith in Christ and is manifested in local churches that assemble in the name of the Lord.

The local church gathers regularly to worship Christ as King and believe that He alone is the High Priest and a Holy Prophet of the church. When we gather, we experience His presence through the preaching of the word, prayer, fellowship, testimonies of grace, the public reading of Scripture, the exercise of spiritual gifts, and the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. The church proclaims the gospel of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection to a sinful world and is an agent of God’s blessings to the world, which must hear the good news in order to be saved. We understand that the local church exists by God’s ordination. It is therefore our mission to see the body of Christ share the transforming power of the gospel with our neighbors, both in the city, and in the nations, and thereby accomplish His redemptive purposes among all peoples. The church also exists to make disciples of Jesus who embody the Kingdom values of loving neighbors, serving those in need, and caring for creation. The church anticipates the final redemption of all things after Christ’s return. We believe the church’s only proper officers are Elders and Deacons, whose qualifications are defined in the Epistles to Timothy and Titus.

(Matthew 16:16-18, 28:19-20; Matthew 18:20; Acts 2:42-47; Acts 3:22-23; Hebrews 4:14, 8:1; Romans 12:4-8; Ephesians 2:14-22, 4:10-13, 5:29; Colossians 1:18; 1 Timothy 3:1-15, 4:14; Titus 1:5-9, Revelation 21:2-3)

We practice believers baptism through the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The act of baptism is outward obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risenSavior as they experience death to sin, burial of the old life, and resurrection to walk in newness of life with Jesus.

The Lord’s supper is an act of worship and obedience that we practice through the breaking of bread and the fruit of the vine. It memorializes the death of our Redeemer and the anticipation of His second coming. Both baptism and the Lord’s supper are significant expressions of salvation, worship, and submission to God for us a the body, as well as the individual believer.

We believe in the personal, visibles and premillennial return of Jesus Christ. Jesus will gloriously rapture His church at any moment. He will return to bring His Kingdom to completion by delivering this world from Satan’s power and handing it to the Father.

He will raise the dead physically for final judgment; send the lost to everlasting, conscious punishment; and live forever with His redeemed people in the renewed creation.

(Daniel 7:15-28, 9:24-27; Matthew 24:4-29; Mark 13:32, 9:48; 1 Corinthians 3:10-15, 15:42-49; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Titus 2:13; Revelation 20:7-10, 21:3-4)