We believe the Bible is God’s Word given by divine inspiration, the record of God’s revelation of Himself to humanity. It is trustworthy, sufficient, without error—the supreme authority and guide for all doctrine and conduct.

2 Timothy 3:16 | 1 Peter 1:23-25 | John 17:17

We believe in the one living and true God, perfect in wisdom, sovereignty, holiness, justice, mercy and love. He exists eternally in three coequal persons who act together in creation, providence and redemption. The Father reigns with providential care over all life and history in the created universe. He hears and answers prayer. The Son became man, Jesus Christ, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Being fully God and fully man, He revealed God through His sinless life, miracles and teaching. He provided salvation through His atoning death in our place and by His bodily resurrection. He ascended into heaven where He rules over all creation. He intercedes for all believers and dwells in them as their ever-present Lord. The Holy Spirit inspired men to write the Scriptures. Through this Word, He convicts individuals of their sinfulness and of the righteousness of Christ, draws them to the Savior, and bears witness to their new birth. The Spirit indwells, seals and gives spiritual gifts to all believers for ministry in the church and society. He empowers, guides, teaches, fills, sanctifies and produces the fruit of Christlikeness in all who yield to Him.

1 Timothy 1:17 | Deuteronomy 32:3-4 | Genesis 1:26 | 1 Peter 1:2 | Hebrews 1:1-3 | 1 Chronicles 29:11-13

Matthew 7:11 | John 1:14 |  Matthew 1:18 | John 14:9 | 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 | 2 Corinthians 5:2 | Romans 4:23-25 Philippians 2:5-11| Romans 8:34 | John 14:23 | 2 Peter 1:21 | James 1:18 | Romans 8:16 | Romans 8:9-1

Ephesians 1:13-14 | Acts 4:31 | Romans 8:14 | 1 Corinthians 2:10-13

We believe God created men and women in His own image to have fellowship with Himself and to be steward over His creation. As a result, each person is unique, possesses dignity and is worthy of respect. Through the temptation of Satan, Adam and Eve chose to disobey God; this brought sin and death to the human race and suffering to all creation. Therefore, everyone is born with a sinful nature and needs to be reconciled to God.

Genesis 1:26-28 | Genesis 3 | Romans 5:12-21| Romans 5: 8-22 | Romans 3:9-18, 23

We believe salvation is redemption by Christ of the whole person from sin and death. It is offered as a free gift by God to all and must be received personally through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole person, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

Regeneration, or the new birth, is a work of God’s grace whereby believers become new creatures in Christ Jesus. It is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit through conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance and faith are inseparable experiences of grace. Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment of the entire personality to Him as Lord and Savior.

Justification is God’s gracious and full acquittal upon principles of His righteousness of all sinners who repent and believe in Christ. Justification brings the believer unto a relationship of peace and favor with God.

Sanctification is the experience, beginning in regeneration, by which the believer is set apart to God’s purposes, and is enabled to progress toward moral and spiritual maturity through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. Growth in grace should continue throughout the regenerate person’s life.

Glorification is the culmination of salvation and is the final blessed and abiding state of the redeemed.

2 Timothy 1:9-10 | 1 Thessalonians 5:23 | 1 Timothy 2:4 | Ephesians 2:8-9 | Acts 20:21

We believe the Church is the body of which Christ is the head and all who believe in Him are members. Christians are commanded to be baptized upon profession of faith and to unite with a local church for mutual encouragement and growth in discipleship through worship, nurture, service and the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. Each church is a self-governing body under the lordship of Christ with all members sharing responsibility.

Ephesians 1:22-23 | Romans 12:4-5 | Acts 2:41-42, 47 | Luke 24:45-48 | Acts 13:1-3 | Acts 14:26-28

We believe that the ordinances of the church are baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s identification with the death, burial and resurrection of the Savior Jesus Christ. The Lord’s Supper is the partaking of the bread and of the cup by believers together as a continuing memorial of the broken body and shed blood of Christ. It is an act of thankful dedication to Him and serves to unite His people until He returns. 

Matthew 28:18-20 | Romans 6:3-5 | 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

We believe God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring all things to their appropriate end and establish the new heaven and the new earth. The certain hope of the Christian is that Jesus Christ will return to the earth suddenly, personally and visibly in glory according to His promise. The dead will be raised, and Christ will judge mankind in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to everlasting punishment. The righteous, in their resurrected and glorified bodies, will receive their reward and dwell forever with the Lord.

Ephesians 1:9-10 | Revelation 21:1 | Titus 2:13 | Revelation 1:7 | Revelation 3:11 | John 14:1-3 | John 5:28-29

Matthew 25:41,46 | Revelation 20:10 | Philippians 3:20-21 | 2 Corinthians 5:10 | 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18