Doctrine Statement

We affirm our belief in one GOD, infinite spirit, creator, and sustainer of all things, who exists eternally in three persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. These three are one in essence but distinct in person and function

We affirm that the Father is the first person of the Trinity and the source of all that God is and does. For Him, the Son, is eternally generated and from Them the Spirit eternally proceeds. He is the designer of creation, the speaker of revelation, the author of redemption, and the sovereign of history.

We affirm that the Lord Jesus Christ is the second person of the Trinity, externally begotten from the Father. He is God. He was conceived by the virgin Mary through a miracle of the Holy Spirt. He lives forever as perfect God and perfect man: two distinct natures inseparably united in one person. 

We affirm that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, proceeding the Father and the Son and equal in deity. He is the giver of all life, active in the creating and ordering of the universe; He is the agent of inspiration and the new birth; He restrains sins and Satan; and He indwells and sanctifies all believers.

We affirm that all things were created by God. Angels were created as ministering agents, though some, under the leadership of Satan, fell from their sinless state to become agents of evil. The universe was created in six historical days and is continuously sustained by God; thus it both reflects HIS glory and reveals his truth. Human Beings were directly created, not evolved, in the very image of God. As reasoning moral agents, they are responsible under God for understanding and governing themselves and the world.

We affirm that the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, though written by men, was supernaturally inspired by God so that all its words are the written true revelation of God; it is therefore inerrant in the originals and authoritative in all matters. It is to be understood by all though the illumination of the Holy Spirit; its meaning determined by the historical, grammatical, and literary use of the author's language, comparing scripture with scripture.

We affirm that Adam, the first man, willfully disobeyed God, bringing sin and death into the world. As a result, all persons are sinners from conception, which is evidenced in willful acts of sin; and they are therefore subject to eternal punishment under the just condemnation of the holy GOD.

We affirm that Jesus Christ offered Himself as a sacrifice by the appointment of the Father. He fulfilled the demands of God by His obedient life, died on the corss in full substitution and payment for the sins of all, was buried and on the third day HE arose physically and bodily from the dead. He ascended into heaven where HE now intercedes for all his believers.

We affirm that each person can be saved only through the work of Jesus Christ, through repentance of sin and the faith alone in Him as Savior. The believer is declared righteous, born again by the Holy Spirit, turned from sin and assured of Heaven.

We affirm that the Holy Spirit indwells all who are born again, conforming them to the likeness of Jesus Christ. This is the process completed only in Heaven. Every believer is responsible to live in obedience to the Word of God in separation of sin.