Statement of Faith
I. We affirm our belief in the divine inspiration, truthfulness, and authority of both Old and New Testament Scriptures in their entirety. They are the only written word of God, without error in all they affirm, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
II. We affirm our belief in the one eternal God, Creator and Lord of the universe, always existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each possessing divine perfection.
A. God, the Father is perfect in holiness, infinite in wisdom and measureless in power. He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of people, hears and answers prayer, and saves all who come to Him by faith through Jesus Christ.
B. God, the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, is God's only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and man, and sinless in His life. We believe in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal visible return to the world according to His promise.
C. God, the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity who came from God to convince the world of sin, righteousness and judgment and to regenerate all who believe in Jesus Christ. He indwells the believer and, by His present ministry, enables the Christian to live a godly life, different from that of the world.
III. We affirm our belief that all people, by nature and by choice, are perishing because of sin, but God offers His love to all people, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should repent. Yet those who reject Christ repudiate the joy of salvation and condemn themselves to eternal separation from God. Believers are called upon to proclaim Jesus as the only Savior and to invite all people to respond to Him as Savior and Lord in a wholehearted personal commitment of repentance and faith. Those who believe and confess Christ as Lord and Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit and will rejoice forever in God's presence.
IV. We affirm our belief in the spiritual unity of the Body of Christ universal, of which all regenerated people are members. A visible local church is a company of believers in Jesus Christ who have experienced a new birth effected through the truth by the agency of the Holy Spirit. Upon a credible confession of faith, these believers will be baptized and will associate themselves for worship, service, mission, and fellowship. Baptism and the Lord's Supper (Communion) are commanded by our Lord as perpetual ordinances for believers.
V. We affirm our belief that the mission of the Church, for which it is uniquely equipped by the Holy Spirit, is to spread the good news of salvation to all people everywhere, and to testify of the reality and power of the Gospel by the holy life of its members, their genuine love for one another, their service to mankind everywhere, and their patient endurance of suffering.
