Our Doctrinal Statement of Beliefs

• WE BELIEVE in one sovereign God, eternally existing in three persons: the everlasting Father, His only
  begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, and the Holy Spirit, the giver of life; and we believe that God created
  the Heavens and the earth out of nothing by His spoken word, and for His own glory.

• WE BELIEVE that God has revealed Himself and His truth in the created order, in the Scriptures, and
  supremely in Jesus Christ; and that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by
  God and inerrant in the original writing, so that they are fully trustworthy and of supreme and final
  authority in all they say.

• WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, was true God
  and true man, existing in one person and without sin; and we believe in the resurrection of the crucified
  body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life there for us as Lord of all, High
  Priest, and Advocate.

• WE BELIEVE that God directly created Adam and Eve, the historical parents of the entire human race; and
  that they were created in His own image, distinct from all other living creatures, and in a state of original
  righteousness.

• WE BELIEVE that our first parents sinned by rebelling against God’s revealed will and thereby incurred
  both physical and spiritual death, and that as a result all human beings are born with a sinful nature that
  leads them to sin in thought, word, and deed.

• WE BELIEVE in the existence of Satan, sin, and evil powers, and that all these have been defeated by God
  in the cross of Christ.

• WE BELIEVE that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative
  and substitutionary sacrifice, triumphing over all evil; and that all who believe in Him are justified by His
  shed blood and forgiven of all their sins.

• WE BELIEVE that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and
  thereby become children of God and are enabled to offer spiritual worship acceptable to God.

• WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit indwells and gives life to believers, enables them to understand the
  Scriptures, empowers them for godly living, and equips them for service and witness.

• WE BELIEVE that the one, holy, universal Church is the body of Christ and is composed of the
  communities of Christ’s people. The task of Christ’s people in this world is to be God’s redeemed
  community, embodying His love by worshipping God with confession, prayer, and praise; by proclaiming
  the gospel of God’s redemptive love through our Lord Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth by word and
  deed; by caring for all of God’s creation and actively seeking the good of everyone, especially the poor and
  needy.

• WE BELIEVE in the blessed hope that Jesus Christ will soon return to this earth, personally, visibly, and
  unexpectedly, in power and great glory, to gather His elect, to raise the dead, to judge the nations, and to
  bring His Kingdom to fulfillment.

• WE BELIEVE in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting punishment of the lost, and
  the everlasting blessedness of the saved.