We believe the Bible, comprised of the Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God [Matthew 5:18; 2 Timothy 3:16-17]. In faith we hold the Bible to be inerrant in the original writings, God-breathed, and the complete and final authority for faith and practice [2 Timothy 3:16-17]. While still using the individual writing styles of the human authors, the Holy Spirit perfectly guided them to ensure they wrote precisely what He wanted written, without error or omission [2 Peter 1:21].
There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – [John 10:30] each of whom possesses equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality. [Colossians 1:19]
Jesus Christ is God, the living Word [John 1 :1, Isaiah 44:6, Revelation 1:8], who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. [Matthew 1:18] Hence, He is perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person forever. [Revelation 1:18, Isa 9:6-7]
He lived a sinless life [Hebrews 4:15] and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men [Galatians 1:4] by dying on the cross as their substitute [Matt. 26:28], thus satisfying divine justice [Romans 1:18, Isaiah 26:9] and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone. [Ephesians 2:8,9, Psalm 118:8]
He rose from the dead in the same body [Mark 16:6], though glorified [Philippians 3:21], in which He lived and died.
He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father [Acts 2:33, Colossians 3:1], where He, the only mediator between God and man [1 Timothy 2:5], continually makes intercession for His own. [Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:25]
Man was originally created in the image of God. [Genesis 1:26] He sinned by disobeying God; [Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:5, Genesis 3:6] thus, he was alienated from his Creator [1 Corinthians 15:21]. That historic fall brought all mankind under divine condemnation. [Genesis 3:18-19]
Man's nature is corrupted [Matthew 22:37-38, Psalm 51:5, Ephesians 2:3, Genesis 8:21], and he is thus totally unable to please God. [James 2:10, Ezekiel 33:13, Titus 3:5] Every man is in need of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
The salvation of man is wholly a work of God's free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness or religious ceremony [Romans 3:24, Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:8, Galatians 2:16]. God imputes His righteousness [Romans 4:22–25, Romans 3:21-22, Revelation 7:14] to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justified them in His sight. [Romans 13:14]
It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they trust Christ as their Savior [Romans 8:16, Romans 8:16, John 15:26, Galatians 3:26]. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit [Ephesians 2:8, Acts 15:11, Romans 9:16, 1 Peter 1:5], but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit, who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in His written word [Luke 24:27, Psalm 118:8, Philippians 2:5, Psalm 1:1-4].
The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated in the believer's life by faith.
Every believer is called to live so in the power of the indwelling Spirit that he will not fulfill the lust of the flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God.
Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all men, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith.
God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures and for mutual encouragement.
At physical death the believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing.
At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting judgment and condemnation.
Jesus Christ will come again to the earth [Acts 1:11] – personally, visibly and bodily [Luke 21:27, Revelation 1:7] – to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation. The fulfillment of that Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to "Him who loved us and gave Himself for us."
The gifts of the Holy Spirit are still active today, which are given to every believer through God as He determines, and made active through The Holy Spirit in order to fulfill the purpose that God has for the life of the believer (1 Corinthians 12)
(Thank you to Garland-Green of The Bible Guild for putting the majority of this Statement of Faith together)!
