We believe the Bible is the inspired word of god, free from error in the original autographs and the final authority in matters of life and faith. The sixty-six books of the Protestant Cannon contain God’s written revelation of himself.
We believe in one living and true God revealed in three persons- Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Together they dwell in an eternal triune.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. Jesus was fully god and fully man, yet completely without sin. He became incarnate in order to take on the substitutionary death on the cross, paying the price for our sin-debt. Three days later, he was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples, proving that he was God the Son who conquered death and declared our sins forgiven. Jesus then ascended into heaven and now sits at the right hand of God, where he is the One Mediator between God and man.
We believe the Holy Spirit is the fully divine Spirit of God. It is through the power of the Holy Spirit that we are able to understand truth, are called to the Savior, and justified by Christ. At the moment of regeneration, the Holy Spirit indwells each believer and works in each believer’s life to become more like Christ. He seals the salvation of the believer unto the day of final redemption.
We believe in the literal account of creation, as recorded in Genesis. Humans are the special creation of God, make in His own image. By their free choice, our first parents sinned against God and brought sin into the human race, causing humans to fall from their original innocence. Because of our sin, we are spiritually dead and unable to save ourselves by restoring the fellowship between God and us.
A right relationship with God is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord of their life by faith. Our salvation is sealed with the blood of Christ on behalf of our sins. It is through Christ’s finished work upon the cross that God forgives our sins, declares us righteous, and offers the free gift of a relationship with Him as His adopted children. Accepting Jesus as Lord through faith involves a change of heart and a response to God’s prompting through an acceptance of and a commitment to Jesus. Those whom God has accepted in Christ will never fall away from the state of grace.
We believe the universal church, or Body of Christ, is made up of those whom Christ has saved of all the ages, of every tribe, tongue, people, and nations. The local congregation is the autonomous, local expression of the New Testament church.
Christ has given the church two symbolic acts (Baptism and Communion) as signs of His grace and our faith in Him. Baptism is the immersion of a Christ-follower in water as an act of obedience symbolizing one’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour. It is a testimony to his/her faith in Jesus Christ. Communion, or the Lord’s Supper, is a symbolic act of partaking bread and juice to memorialize the death of Jesus Christ on behalf of our sins and anticipation of Christ’s return to earth.
We believe the purpose of the church is to go into the entire world and make disciples. To accomplish this mission, God has created, saved, called, gifted, authorized, and commanded every Christ-follower to serve in and through the local church.
We look forward to Christ’s visible return to earth when he will raise the dead, judge the world, and consummate his kingdom in the new heaven and the new earth. It is then that all Christ-followers, in their glorified bodies, will receive their reward and dwell forever with our Lord.
