“We Believe”
WE BELIEVE that the Bible is God’s written revelation to man given to us by the Holy Spirit and comprises the only infallible rule of faith and practice. We believe that God spoke in His written Word by a process of dual authorship. The Holy Spirit superintended the human writers in such a way that, through their individual personalities and different styles of writing, they composed and recorded God’s Word to man without any error in the whole or in part.
WE BELIEVE that there is but one, living and true God, an infinite, all-knowing Spirit, perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – each equally deserving of worship and obedience.
WE BELIEVE that God the Father, the first Person of the Trinity, orders and disposes all things according to His own purpose and grace, and is the creator of all things. He has graciously chosen from eternity past those whom He would have as His own, and saves from sin all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity, possesses all the divine excellencies, and in these He is coequal, consubstantial, and coeternal with the Father. Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through the shedding of His blood and sacrificial death on the cross. We believed that His death was voluntary, vicarious, substitutionary, propitiatory, and redemptive.
WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person, eternal, un-derived, possessing all the attributes of personality and deity. The Holy Spirit is the supernatural and sovereign agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ. The Holy Spirit also indwells, sanctifies, instructs, empowers believers for service, and seals them unto the day of redemption.
WE BELIEVE that man was directly and immediately created by God in His image and likeness. Man was created free of sin with a rational nature, intelligence, volition, self-determination, and moral responsibility to God. In Adam’s sin of disobedience to the revealed will and Word of God man lost his innocence, incurred the penalty of spiritual and physical death, became subject to the wrath of God, and became inherently corrupt and utterly incapable of choosing or doing that which is acceptable to God apart from divine grace. Man’s salvation is thereby wholly of God’s grace through the redemptive work of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the merit of His shed blood, and not on the basis of human merit or works.
