Doctrinal Statement

We believe that God has revealed Himself to be the living and true God, perfect in love and righteous in all His ways; existing eternally in the three persons of the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and that these three are one God, one in essence, character, and purpose, but distinct in personality and work.

We believe that God, who discloses Himself to mankind through His creation, has savingly spoken in the words and events of redemptive history. This history is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word, who is made known to us by the Holy Spirit in sacred Scripture.

We believe that the 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration. The Bible is the infallible, complete and final revelation of God regarding God’s plan of salvation and the sole authority for humanity, for life and faith. They are to be interpreted according to their context and purpose and in reverent obedience to the Lord who speaks through them in living power.We believe in the incarnation and virgin birth of Jesus Christ; in His sinless life, and in the sufficiency and substitution of His death on the cross for the sins of the whole world; in His bodily resurrection from the dead and His ascension to heaven; and in His visible, bodily return to this earth in the future.

We believe that God, by His Word and for His glory, freely created the world out of nothing. He made man in His own image that man might have fellowship with Him. Tempted by Satan, man rebelled against God. Being estranged from his Maker, yet responsible to Him, he became subject to divine wrath, and, apart from grace, incapable on his own of returning to God.

We believe that Jesus Christ is the only Mediator between God and man, and that man’s greatest need is personal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, apart from any works of the law or any human merit.We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers who are regenerated, baptized, indwelt, and sealed by the Holy Spirit, and in the necessity of being filled with the Spirit for an effective Christian life and witness.

We believe that God’s plan for this present age involves the evangelization of the world through the witness of every believer in Jesus Christ, and the establishment and growth of local churches as the means of accomplishing His purposes.