The Word

God’s Word is verbally inspired, absolutely inerrant, infallible, and God breathed. The Bible is our rule of faith and practice.

God

There is only one living true God. He is the Creator of all things. He is sovereign, infinite, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and perfect in all His attributes. He eternally exists in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Jesus the Son

Jesus the Son of God is coequal, consubstantial, and coeternal with His Father. He was born from a virgin through the power of God. Jesus is God incarnate, He is redeemer of humanity, and the ruler over God’s kingdom. He is the only mediator between God and man. Jesus will return to receive His church at the rapture.

Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is a divine person, eternal, underived, coequal, and consubstantial with the Father and Son. His mission is to build the church, to convict the world of sin, to convict the world of righteousness, to sanctify the believer, to instruct, to regenerate, to indwell in the believer, to redeem the lost, to empower the believer for service, to distribute spiritual gifts, to judge, to transform the believer into the image of Christ, to seal the believer until the day of redemption, and to bring glory to God.

Man

Man was created by God in His image and likeness. God’s intention in creating man was for humanity to glorify Him. Adam’s and Eve’s disobedience in the garden brought the loss of innocence, incurred spiritual and physical death, and forced the wrath of God. Humanity became inherently corrupt and incapable of choosing or doing good apart from the grace of God. Only through the redemptive work of Christ on the cross and the grace given by Him can humanity be saved. This is a work of God and not of man.

Salvation

Salvation comes through the grace shown to humanity by God through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. Humanity cannot earn, work, or gain any type of merit to achieve salvation. Salvation can be experienced by confessing with the mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and to believe with the heart that God raised Him from the dead.

Security of the Believer

All the redeemed are kept by God’s divine power, which secures them in Christ forever.

The Church

The church is made up of all who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ. Those who have been saved are immediately put into one united spiritual body: the bride of Christ. Jesus is the head and He has supreme authority over His church. The designated officers serving under Christ and over His church are Elders and Deacons. The congregation is called by God to submit to their leadership knowing that they are lovingly watching over their souls and will give an account for them. The purpose of the church is to glorify God, to disciple, to evangelize, to fellowship, to preach God’s Word, to minister, and to keep the ordinances (Lord’s Supper, and baptism by immersion). In the end days the church will be raptured by Christ, the resurrected saints will reign with Him over all the nations for 1,000 years, Satan will be cast into the Lake of Fire, Christ will judge at the Great White Throne of Judgment, the unsaved will be cast into the Lake of Fire, and the saved will enter the eternal state of glory with God.