1. We believe in one God, holy and almighty, eternally
existing in three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, co-eternal
in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, each with
distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence or being.
2. We believe in the verbal and plenary inspiration of
the Old and New Testaments; that they are infallible, inerrant in the original
writings, and the final authority for faith and life.
3. We
believe in the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son
of God, who became man by the Holy Spirit and virgin birth, and lived a sinless
life on earth. We believe that He died at Calvary as a
satisfactory substitutionary sacrifice for sinners, that His body was buried in
and arose from the tomb; that He ascended to Heaven and was glorified at God's
right hand. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is coming again for His own and then to set
up His Kingdom.
4. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person
who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; that He is the
supernatural agent in regeneration by whom all believers are baptized into the Body
of Christ; that He indwells and seals them until the day of redemption. We
believe He is the divine teacher and helper who guides believers into all
truth; it is the privilege of all believers to be filled with the Spirit.
5. We believe that God created man in His own image
and in the state of innocence. Through Adam's transgression "sin entered
the world, and death through sin;" and consequently, mankind inherited a
corrupt nature, being born in sin and under condemnation. As soon as men are
capable of moral action, they become actual transgressors in thought, word and
deed.
6. We believe that salvation is a gift of God brought
to men by grace and received only through personal repentance of sin and faith
in the person and the finished work and atoning blood of Jesus Christ. We
believe that regeneration is achieved through the work of the Holy Spirit.
7. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men,
the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to everlasting punishment.
8. We believe that the church universal is a spiritual
organism composed of the regenerated who are baptized into that body by the
Holy Spirit at the time of the new birth and that the local church, the visible
manifestation of the body, has the responsibility to provide for the fellowship
and edification of believers and to propagate the gospel into the world.
9. We
believe that a Christian should maintain a strong and consistent testimony,
striving always to walk in the footsteps of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ,
and working under the direction of the Holy Spirit for the salvation of lost
souls and the edification of the Body of Christ.