Statement of Faith
1. We believe in the verbal-plenary inspiration by the Holy Spirit of the Old and New Testaments, which are completely inerrant in the original writings, infallible, and the final authority for faith and in practice. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Matthew 5:18; John 16:12-13)
2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons – The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit – that these three have precisely the same nature, perfections, and attributes, which make them worthy of precisely the same homage, confidence, and obedience. (Matthew 28:18-19; Mark 12:29; John 1:1-2, 14; 4:24; 10:30; Acts 5:3-4; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Hebrews 1:1-3; Revelation 1:4-6)
3. We believe in His eternal deity, virgin birth, vicarious atonement, bodily resurrection, present intercession; and in His personal, pre-millennial, pre-tribulation, and imminent return. (Matthew 1:18-25; Romans 4:25; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 3:10)
4. We believe in the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit, and that certain ministries have been committed to Him in this age – (1) to convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, and (2) the regeneration, indwelling, enlightening, sealing unto the day of redemption, and the baptizing into the one body of Christ of each of the saved. (John 3:6; 16:7-11; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:30; 5:18; 2 Thessalonians 2:7; 1 John 2:20-27)
5. We believe that man was originally created in the image and likeness of God; that he sinned by disobeying God; that he thereby incurred spiritual death, which is separation from God; that he thereby became subject to the power of Satan; that this spiritual death has been transmitted to the entire human race, the man Christ Jesus being the only exception, so that all are sinners by nature and practice. (Genesis 1:26; 2:17; 6:5; Psalms 14:1-3; 51:5; Jeremiah 17:9; John 3:6; 5:40; 6:53; Romans 3:10-19; 8:6-7; Ephesians 2:1-3; 1 Timothy 5:6; 1 John 3:8)
6. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins vicariously and substitutionally according to the Scriptures; that our redemption from sin has been accomplished solely by His blood/death; that He was made to be sin for us, dying in our place and stead; thus, eternal salvation is not a reward for good people, it is a GIFT for sinners. (Leviticus 17:11; Isaiah 64:6; Matthew 26:28; John 1:29; 3:5, 18; Romans 3:25-26; 5:6-9; 6:23; 2 Corinthians 5:14, 21; Galatians 3:13; 6:15; Ephesians 1:7; Philippians 3:4-9; Titus 3:5; Hebrews 10:5-14; James 1:18; 1 Peter 1:18-19, 23)
7. We believe that every believer is commanded to be filled/controlled by the Holy Spirit, seeking to walk in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon the Lord Jesus Christ, witnessing by life and word to the truths of the Bible, seeking to proclaim the Gospel to all the world, remembering the work of the Lord in prayer, and supporting it with his means as God has prospered him. (Ephesians 5:17-18; Galatians 5:16; Acts 1:8; 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 9:7)
8. We believe in the personality and subtlety of Satan; that he is the devil, the author of sin, and the adversary of God and man; and that he shall be eternally punished in the lake of fire. (Job 1:6-7; Isaiah 14:12-17; Matthew 4:2-11; 25:41; 2 Corinthians 4:3-4; Revelation 20:2, 10)
9. We believe that the term marriage has only one meaning, and that is marriage sanctioned by God, which joins one man and one woman in a single, covenantal union according to the Scriptures. Ceremonies sanctioned by God, are the joining of one man with one woman as their genders were determined at birth. (Gen. 2:24; Eph. 5:22–23; Mark 10:6–9; 1 Cor. 7:1–9)
10. We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage as defined above. We believe that any other type of sexual activity, identity, or expression that lies outside of this definition of marriage, including those that are becoming more accepted in the culture and the courts, are contradictory to God’s natural design and purpose for sexual activity. (Gen. 2:24; Gen. 19:5; Lev. 18:1–30; Rom. 1: 26–29; 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:9–10; 1 Thess. 4:1–8; Heb. 13:4)
11. We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God, and the rejection of one’s biological gender is a rejection of the image of God within that person. (Genesis 1:26-27)