We Believe...

In one eternally existent infinite God, Sovereign of the universe; that He only is God, is Triune in essential being, revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;

In Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Triune Godhead; that He was eternally one with the Father; that He became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary, so that the Godhead and manhood, are this united in one Person very God and very man.

We believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins, and that He truly arose from the dead and took again His body, where He ascended into heaven and is there engaged in intercession for us;

In the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Triune Godhead, that He is ever present and efficiently active in and with the Church of Christ, convincing the world of sin, regenerating those who repent and believe, sanctifying believers, and guiding into all truth as it is in Jesus;

In the plenary inspiration of the Bible, consisting of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, given by divine inspiration, inerrantly revealing the will of God concerning us in all things necessary to our salvation, so that whatever is not contained therein is not to be enjoined as an article of faith;

That sin came into the world through the disobedience of our first parents, and death by sin. We believe that sin is of two kinds: original sin or depravity, and actual or personal sin.

That Jesus Christ, by His sufferings, by the shedding of His own blood, and by His meritorious death on the Cross, made a full atonement for all human sin, and that this Atonement is the only ground of salvation, and that it is sufficient for every individual of Adam’s race.

That the human race’s creation in Godlikeness included ability to choose between right and wrong; and that human beings were made morally responsible; that the grace of God through Jesus Christ is freely bestowed upon all people, enabling all who will, to turn from sin to righteousness, believe in Jesus Christ for pardon and cleansing from sin, and follow good works pleasing and acceptable in His sight. We believe that all persons may fall from grace and unless they repent of their sins, be hopelessly and eternally lost;

That repentance, which is a sincere and thorough change of the mind in regard to sin, involving a personal guilt and a voluntary turning away from sin, is demanded of all who have by act or purpose become sinners against God. The Spirit of God gives to all who will repent the gracious help of penitence of heart and hope of mercy that they may believe unto pardon and spiritual life;

In that justification, regeneration, and adoption are simultaneous in the experience of seekers after God and are obtained upon the condition of faith, preceded by repentance; and that to this work and state of grace the Holy Spirit bears witness. That justification is the gracious and judicial act of God by which He grants full pardon of all guilt and complete release from the penalty of sins committed, and acceptance as righteous, to all who believe in Jesus Christ and receive Him as Lord and Savior; that regeneration, or the new birth, is that gracious work of God whereby the moral nature of the repentant believer is spiritually quickened and given a distinctively spiritual life, capable of faith, love, and obedience; that adoption is that gracious act of God by which the justified and regenerated believer is constituted a son of God;

That entire sanctification is that act of God, subsequent to regeneration, by which believers are made free from original sin, and is provided by the blood of Jesus;

In the Church, the community that confesses Jesus Christ as Lord, the covenant people of God made new in Christ, the Body of Christ called together by the Holy Spirit through the Word; to carry out the Great Commission;

That Christian baptism is a sacrament signifying acceptance of the benefits of atonement of Jesus Christ;  That the Communion Supper instituted by Jesus Christ is a sacrament declarative of His sacrificial death, through the merits of which believers have life and salvation and promise of all spiritual blessings in Christ;

In the Bible doctrine of divine healing and that God heals through the means of medical science;  That Jesus Christ will come again; in the resurrection of the dead and united with their spirits; in the future judgment before God to be judged according to his or her deeds in this life; that glorious and everlasting life is assured to all who believe in, and obediently follow, Jesus Christ our Lord; and that the finally impenitent shall suffer eternally in hell.