BIBLE
We believe the Bible is God's written
revelation to man. It is verbally inspired in every word, and
absolutely inerrant in the original documents. We affirm the
infallibility, sufficiency, and authority of Scripture.
GOD
We believe that 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.
JESUS
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His
Virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His
vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His
bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the
Father, and His personal return in power and glory.
HOLY SPIRIT
We believe in the Spirit-filled life. As the supernatural
and sovereign Agent in regeneration, the Holy Spirit baptizes
all believers into the Body of Christ at the moment of
salvation. The Holy Spirit also indwells, sanctifies, instructs,
empowers them for service, and seals them unto the day of
redemption.
MAN
We believe man was created by God innocent and without sin. However,
as a result of Adam's sin, sin entered the world and corrupted all
men. Man's only hope for forgiveness and redemption of sin is
through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
SALVATION
We believe that the salvation of man, who is sinful and
lost, is instantaneous and 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. This 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.
RESURRECTION
We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and
the unsaved; the saved unto the resurrection of life and the
unsaved unto the resurrection of condemnation.
CHURCH
We believe that 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 purpose of
the church is to glorify God by building its members up in the
faith, by instruction of the word, by fellowship, by keeping the
ordinances, and by advancing and communicating the gospel to the
entire world.