We believe in the one true God, the Holy Trinity––Father, Son, Holy Spirit––one God in three persons, coequal in divine nature, power, and perfection, neither blending their persons nor dividing their essence, but all three uncreated in coeternal majesty, fulfilling distinct yet harmonious roles: The Father is the source of all being, the Son is begotten of the Father before all ages as the one mediator between God and man through whom the Spirit is sent, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and is sent by the Son to unite humanity to Himself. One God in trinity and the trinity in unity, completely incomprehensible. The mystery of the triune God is the foundation of our life in communion with Him––the sole object of worship.  
Genesis 1:1-2,26; Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 48:11–16; Matthew 3:16-17, 28:19; John 1:1-4,14, 4:24, 10:30, 14:26,28, 15:26; Romans 8:9-11, 9:5; 1 Corinthians 11:2-3, 15:27-28;  2 Corinthians 13:14; 1 Peter 1:2,10-12; Jude 1:4-5 

We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, Creator of all things visible and invisible, who made the cosmos out of nothing and sustains it by His providence, infinitely perfect in His divine nature and attributes: uncreated, eternal, incorporeal, immutable, indivisible, simple (or without parts), self-sufficient, self-existent, immeasurable, incomparable, impassible, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omnipresent, transcendent, yet immanent. He is a wholly sovereign, holy, yet personal Being. He is the essence of glory, goodness, righteousness, justice, wisdom, joy, peace, grace, mercy, hope, faith, love, truth, and life. He cannot lie or be tempted by evil. He is the principal source of the Son and the Spirit, unbegotten without procession.  
Genesis 18:25; Exodus 3:5-6, 14, 34:6-7; Deuteronomy 6:4, 7:7-8, 32:4; Numbers 23:19; Psalm 25:8, 90:1-2, 115:3, 139:7-10, 145:17, 147:5,8; Isaiah 6:3, 55:8-9, 57:15; Jeremiah 9:24, 23:23-24, 32:17; Malachi 3:6; Matthew 5:45, 10:29, 19:26; John 14:6, 15:26; Acts 17:24-28; Romans 8:35-39, 9:15-16, 11:33,36; 1 Corinthians 8:5-6; Ephesians 2:4; Colossians 1:15-17; 2 Timothy 2:13; Titus 1:2; Philippians 4:7; Hebrews 4:13,16, 6:18;; James 1:13,17; 1 John 4:8,16; Revelation 4:8  

We believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who is truly God and truly man, with two natures, wills, and operations, united without separation, confusion, or mixture. Coessential with the Father in preincarnate glory, He existed eternally before time, and through Him all things were made. He came down from heaven and was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born incarnate by the virgin Mary, taught with divine authority, performed miracles, revealed the Kingdom of God and lived a sinless life as the image of the invisible God. He suffered under Pontius Pilate and voluntarily died by crucifixion on the cross as a substitute for sin once for all, descended into the realm of the dead, resurrected bodily on the third day as prophesied in Scripture, and ascended to heaven for the salvation of mankind, redeeming all those who truly believe in Him. He is seated at the right hand of God the Father, exalted as King of kings and Lord of lords. He is the sole mediator between God and mankind, interceding for the saints as High Priest and chief Shepherd. He will return in the way He left to judge the living and the dead, when every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, and reign over His kingdom forever.
John 1:1-3,14, 3:16-21, 6:40, 8:23, 10:7-18, 20:8-9,17,27-29; Acts 1:9-11; Colossians 1:15-22, 2:9,14; 1 John 2:2, 3:5; 1 Corinthians 8:5-6, 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 1:1-3, 4:15, 5:8-9, 13:8; 1 Peter 2:24, 3:18-20, 5:4; Galatians 3:13; Romans 5:6-8, 10:9-10, 11:36; Ephesians 4:6,9-10; Luke 1:31-33; 1 Timothy 2:5-6, 6:15; Philippians 2:5-11; Daniel 7:21-22, 27; Isaiah 9:6, 53:6; Revelation 1:18, 19:16, 20:11-15, 22:5

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, the giver of life and truth, who proceeds from the Father and is sent by the Son, and is worshipped and glorified with them. The Spirit is the Gift sent to apply the Son's redemptive work in and through the saints. He spoke through the prophets and apostles; convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment; baptizes and regenerates believers as new creations; empowers the saints to persevere in faith, obedience, and holiness; intercedes for the saints, according to the will of God; bestows spiritual gifts for ministry and good works, to do the will of God; testifies and unites us to Christ and His body, the Church, through the love of God; inspires proper worship and a love for Christ that desires to live like Him and glorify Him; teaches and guides believers into all truth, building up the Church in unity, purity, and maturity. Through Him we participate in the divine nature, as adopted children of our heavenly Father, growing in union with God, transformed into the likeness and image of Christ. He is the gift of eternal life and the seal of God who indwells believers, assuring their eternal inheritance through faith for the Day of redemption, raising them to life when Christ returns––justified, sanctified, and glorified.

Genesis 1:2, 2:7; Ezekiel 36:27; John 14:16-17,26, 15:26, 16:7-15; Acts 1:5, 2:38, 5:3-4, 19:6; Romans 6:23, 8:9-14,26-30, 10:8-15; Philippians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 12:4–7; 2 Corinthians 1:22, 5:5, 12:3; Ephesians 1:13-14, 3:4-6,14-19, 4:11-16,30; 2 Timothy 2:19; Titus 3:5-7; Hebrews 10:35-36; 1 Peter 1:2,10-12; 2 Peter 1:3-12; 1 John 5:6

We believe in the historical Adam and Eve, specially created in the likeness and image of God, male and female, as the first marriage and sole progenitors of mankind, created in His image to glorify Him and be glorified by Him. God formed Adam from the ground and Eve from his side. They were made good and without sin to live in communion with God, but voluntarily disobeyed His command in rebellion with Satan, from which sin and death entered the world physically and spiritually. As a result, every descendant of Adam and Eve, that is all mankind, is subjected to sin and death, born into the world blemished, corrupted, and alienated from God. The image of God, therefore, is stained, marred, and broken by nature and by choice from sin. Mankind is completely incapable of restoring the image of God in his own natural strength and requires union with Christ through God’s grace to be set free and healed. Sin affects every aspect of human life, leading to death and eternal judgment apart from divine grace.

Genesis 1:26-27, 2:16-17,21-25, 3:6-24, 9:6; 1 Kings 8:46; Psalm 14:3, 58:3, 143:2; Proverbs 20:9; Matthew 7:11; Romans 3:9-10,23, 5:12-14,17-19, 6:16,23; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Colossians 1:13-15, 3:9-10; Ephesians 2:1-3,14-16, 4:20-24; Hebrews 2:14-15; James 3:9; 1 John 3:8-10; Revelation 12:9, 20:2

We believe mankind, through Adam’s disobedience with Satan, lost his holy purpose and inherited a corrupt nature, enslaved to the sickness of sin, the debt of which is death. Through Adam’s sin we are separated from the light of God and stranded in darkness, defenseless and exposed to the devil and his demonic forces. Therefore, mankind is evil, inclined to futility, vanity, depravity, idolatry, and enmity with God. Mankind is under God’s wrath, condemned to physical and spiritual death by nature and by choice, completely incapable on his own terms, works, or merit of pleasing God, freeing himself from sin, and saving himself from death. Without God’s grace, each person will remain sick and separated from Him, die in their sins, and then receive the condemnation that their sin deserves.   

Genesis 1:27, 2:16-17, 8:21; 1 Kings 8:46; Psalm 14:3, 38:3-7, 51:1-5, 58:3, 143:2; Proverbs 8:36, 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Isaiah 1:5-6, 43:8, 44:18, 59:2; Jeremiah 17:9; Matthew 7:11, 9:11-13; Mark 2:17; John 3:17-19, 8:34; Romans 1:18-32, 3:9-10,23, 5:12,19, 6:16,23, 7:9, 8:8, 9:14-18; Ephesians 2:1-10, 4:18-19, 6:12; Colossians 1:13-14,21-23, 2:13-14, 3:9-10; Titus 1:15; Hebrews 2:14-15, 11:6; 1; James 1:14-15; John 1:8-10, 3:4

We believe God commands all mankind to turn from sin in repentance and believe in His Son, Jesus Christ, to be reconciled and live in sacred fellowship with Him forever. God is drawing all people to Himself for the forgiveness of sin and salvation from death, to destroy the works of the devil. God loves the world and desires everyone to be healed, sending His Son to save the world, not condemn the world. His divine nature and invisible attributes are plainly evident in creation, conscience, and reason––there is no excuse to reject His command or to worship anyone or anything other than Him alone. The gift of eternal life comes solely by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, initiated and sustained by the Holy Spirit, and preserved through the body of Christ, His Church. Therefore, those who outright reject the mercy of God and the gift of eternal life through Christ’s cross will persist in evil and the works of darkness, facing God’s wrath and condemnation, while the repentant, by grace through faith, receive mercy and union with Him, inheriting eternal life.  

Psalm 107:17-22; Matthew 22:14; John 3:16-21, 6:44, 12:30-36; Acts 2:38-39, 3:19, 17:30-31; Romans 1:18-20, 5:6-8, 8:29, 10:9-13, 11:30-32, 15:8-9; Ephesians 2:8-10; Colossians 1:20-23, 2:14, 3:9-10; Galatians 3:13; 1 Timothy 2:4-6, 4:10; 1 Corinthians 15:49; 2 Corinthians 3:18, 5:17-21; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12; Hebrews 3:7-8,15, 12:17; 1 Peter 2:24, 3:18; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2, 3:4-10

We believe salvation is solely through the sovereign grace and mercy of God, chosen in Him before the foundation of the world. Therefore, the saints are saved, being saved, and will be saved: justified once for all by Christ’s blood, progressively sanctified by the Spirit into His likeness, and finally glorified at His return. In conversion, true believers—participating in grace—repent and believe, are baptized and born again, declared righteous, and made partakers of the divine nature in union with Christ and His body, the Church. True faith perseveres in holiness, battling sin, pursuing purity, loving Christ and His Church, bearing fruit and good works that glorify God. Through union with Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, we are renewed daily, spiritually matured, assured of salvation, and destined for perfect communion—the sanctification of our whole body, soul, and spirit, fully restored to God’s image in glorification. Therefore, we believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, the adoption of sonship, and the hope of eternal life in the world to come––a new heaven and a new earth––free from sin and death to reign with Jesus Christ in glory forever. The Son of God became the Son of Man so that the sons of men may become sons of God.

John 1:12, 3:16, 10:28-29; Colossians 1:20–21, 3:9-10; 1 John 3:4-9; 2 Peter 1:3-11; Hebrews 10:14; Isaiah 60:19; Matthew 13:43; Romans 5:1,8,21, 8:15-17,21,23,27-30, 10:9-13; 1 Corinthians 15:20-23,49; 2 Corinthians 3:18, 5:17–21; Ephesians 1:3-5; Galatians 4:4-5; Ephesians 1:4-5, 2:8-10; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14, 4:13-17; 2 Timothy 2:12, 4:1; Titus 3:5-7; Revelation 20:4-6, 21:1-4,22-26, 22:1-5  

We believe sacred Scripture was written to bear witness of Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh, for the salvation of mankind, and that it is sufficient for teaching God’s gospel plan of salvation through His Son and the Holy Spirit. Scripture is profitable for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that a believer may be proficient and complete in doctrine and discipleship, equipped for every good work to be sanctified and conformed to the image of Christ through the transformative power of the Holy Spirit. There is no doctrine independent of Scripture that is necessary for salvation.

John 1:1-3,14, 5:37-40,45-47; Galatians 5:22-26; Ephesians 2:8-10; 2 Timothy 2:15, 3:14-17; Acts 24:14

We believe sacred Scripture, all sixty-six original autographic books comprising the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, the final authority for doctrine and primary rule of faith and practice. The Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, reveals God's eternal plan of salvation, as well as the creation, meaning, purpose, and destiny of mankind. Scripture carries the utmost prophetic and apostolic authority of the Church as well as the divine words of Jesus Christ. It is not to be interpreted in isolation but in relation to fellow saints of the Church, handed down through teachers gifted by God’s grace, ensuring fidelity to the teachings of Christ. Scripture is the ultimate and preeminent authority of the Church.

Deuteronomy 31:9-13,24-26; Luke 24:44; John 10:35-36; Acts 24:14; 2 Timothy 3:14-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21, 3:15-16

We believe sacred Scripture, which was not spoken nor written by the limited and fallible will of man, was superintended and spoken from the will of God, as men conforming to God’s image were inspired and carried along by the Holy Spirit, using mutable human language over time and place as a progressive means of divine revelation. While the origin of Scripture is divine and, therefore, true and reliable in all that it teaches and addresses, the mode of divine inspiration, that is the distinctive personalities and literary styles of the writers whom God had chosen and prepared, is a mystery.

Isaiah 40:8, 55:8-11; Numbers 23:19; 2 Samuel 7:28; Jeremiah 1:9; Psalm 12:6, 19:7-11, 119:105; Matthew 4:4, 5:18, 24:35; Mark 13:11; John 10:35-36; Acts 2:2, 27:15; 2 Peter 1:21, 3:15-16; Galatians 1:11-12, 3:16; 2 Timothy 2:15, 3:14-17; Hebrews 6:18; 1 Thessalonians 2:13

We believe sacred Scripture, and all its parts, is God-breathed by the Holy Spirit––who is Himself Truth. Scripture is sacred, authoritative, infallible, and inerrant, wholly and verbally free from all falsehood, fraud, or deceit in all that it teaches, down to the very letter of the original text, having been perfectly inspired by the Holy Spirit, uncorrupted by sin and creaturely fallibility. The authority, infallibility, inerrancy, unity, consistency, and continuity of all Scripture is grounded in divine inspiration and is, therefore, vital to sound doctrine, integral to understanding, and indispensable to the application of the whole Christian faith. Scripture cannot contradict itself because God cannot lie. Therefore, Scripture is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

Joshua 1:8; Numbers 23:19; 2 Samuel 7:28; Psalm 12:6, 19:7-11, 119:105; Isaiah 40:8, 55:8-11; Jeremiah 1:9; Matthew 4:4, 5:18, 22:29, 24:35; Mark 13:11; John 10:35-36; Acts 2:2, 27:15; Galatians 1:11-12, 3:16; Colossians 3:16; 2 Timothy 2:15, 3:14-17; Titus 1:2; Hebrews 6:18; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Peter 1:21, 3:15-16

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