We believe the Bible is God’s special written revelation to man. It is composed of sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament. It is verbally inspired in every word and absolutely inerrant in the original manuscripts. We affirm the infallibility, sufficiency, and authority of Scripture. We affirm its final and supreme authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind.

Isaiah 40:8; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; John 5:39; Jude 1:3; Psalm 119:105; 2 Peter 1:19; Matthew 5:17-18, 7:24; Luke 11:49-51, 24:27; John 10:34-35; Acts 20:32; Romans 15:4

We believe that the Bible teaches God is one being that eternally exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are equal and are full and completely God.

Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 45:21-22; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Ephesians 1:17, 2:18; John 14:26; Acts 2:33; Mark 1:10-11; Matthew 3:16-17, 28:19; John 14:24; 1 Peter 1:1-2

We believe in God the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love. We believe that he, in keeping with his justice, possesses righteous anger toward all those who do wicked. Yet, according with his steadfast love, he concerns himself mercifully in the affairs of men. He hears and answers our prayers, and he willfully and joyfully saves from sin and death all that come to him through faith in Jesus Christ.

1 John 3:1; Matthew 6:8-9, 32; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 1:3,4; James 1:17; John 4:23, 5:21,46, 6:44, 14:2; Acts 1:6-7

We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternally begotten Son from the Father and that as such, he possesses precisely the same nature, divine characteristics, and perfection as God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. We believe that he is not only fully God but also fully man, conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of a virgin. We also believe in His sinless life, His substitutionary atonement, His bodily resurrection from the dead, His ascension into heaven, His priestly intercession on behalf of his people, and his personal and visible return from heaven which the church eagerly waits for.

Luke 1:35, John 1:1, 2, 14, 3:16, 14:6; Romans 3:24-26, Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 1:3-5, 2:24, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Acts 1:9-11, Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:25, 9:24

We believe the Holy Spirit is eternally sent by the Father and the Son, is a person, and is fully God. 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 for service, and seals all believers unto the day of redemption. It is the work of the Spirit to glorify the Son - Jesus.

Genesis 1:2; Psalm 139:7; John 15:26, 16:7-11, 13-14; Romans 8:9-16; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Ephesians 1:13-14, 2:22, Acts 1:8

While we were created in the image of God, we believe that every person is a sinner by nature and by choice and is, therefore, under condemnation. We believe that those who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and empowered to live a new life. 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 perfect obedience, and not on the basis of human merit or works.

Genesis 1:27; Psalm 8:3-6; Isaiah 53:6a; 59:1-2; Romans 3:23

We will either exist eternally separated from God by sin or in union with God through forgiveness and salvation. To be eternally separated from God is hell. To be eternally in union with Him is heaven.

John 3:16; 1 John 2:25; 5:11-13; Romans 6:23; Revelation 20:15

We can never make up for our sin by self-improvement or good works. Only by trusting in Jesus Christ as God’s offer of forgiveness can we be saved from sin’s penalty. Eternal life begins the moment we repent and believe in Jesus Christ by faith. Because God gives us eternal life through Jesus Christ, the believer is secure in that salvation for eternity. Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of God, not by the self-effort of the Christian. It is the grace and keeping power of God that gives this security.

Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9; John 14:6; 1:12; Titus 3:5; Galatians 3:26; Romans 5:1; John 10:29; 2 Timothy 1:12; Hebrews 7:25; 10:10-14; 1 Peter 1:3-5

We believe in Jesus’ visible and glorious return to judge the living and the dead. This will be accompanied by the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved; the saved unto the resurrection of life and the unsaved unto the resurrection of damnation.

Job 19:25-26; Daniel 12:2; Zechariah 14:4-11; John 5:29, 11:24; Acts 24:14-15; 1 Corinthians 15:42-44; 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 4:13-18, 5:9; Revelation 3:10, 19:11-16, 20:1-6

Every person who believes in Christ and accepts him as Savior should be baptized by immersion as described in the Bible and modeled by Jesus Christ. Baptism symbolizes Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. Baptism marks the beginning of a new life as a Christian. It is an outward symbol showing faith in Christ. Baptism does not “save” you. Only your faith in Christ does that.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Colossians 2:12; Ephesians 2:8; Acts 8:38-39; 2:41; 8:13; 8:12

Communion (also called the Lord's Supper or Eucharist) is an observance of all Christ has done for us. Jesus commanded that believers do it “in remembrance of Him.” It is an affirmation and a proclamation of faith in Jesus Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. Communion is also an affirmation and proclamation of our participation in the body of Christ.

Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17

We believe that God creates every human being in his image as either male or female and that gender is therefore a fixed biological reality that cannot be altered or changed. Neither is gender a matter of individual choice. We believe that gender and biological sex are one and the same.

We believe marriage is a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman instituted by God. Therefore, we do not believe the government has final authority on any marital union, but God Himself. Marriage is also the only context given by God for sexual desire, union, and actions.

God has given the family as one of the foundational institutions of society. Husbands are to be the spiritual heads of their homes, loving their wives as Christ has loved the church. Wives are to submit to the Lord faithfully and joyfully by submitting to their husband’s godly leadership in the home. Parents are to raise their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:18-24; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Matthew 19:4-9; Romans 1:26-27;
1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Ephesians 5:21-6:4