Statement of Faith
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We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are the full, inspired record of God’s self-disclosure to humanity. Human authors, writing in their own unique styles and personalities, were supernaturally moved along by the Holy Spirit to record the very words of God, making Scripture completely inerrant in the original manuscripts. Through careful study of its literal, historical-grammatical context, believers can accurately understand God’s Word. Scripture is fully trustworthy and serves as our final, supreme, and sufficient authority for all matters of faith and life. (2 Timothy 3:16–17; 2 Peter 1:20–21)
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We believe in the one living and true God, eternally existing in perfect unity as three distinct, fully divine Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Each Person of the Godhead executes distinct but complementary roles in redemptive history, while sharing the exact same divine nature, attributes, and essence. Each is equally worthy of the highest worship, glory, honor, and obedience. (Matthew 28:19–20; John 1:1–4, 17:3; Acts 5:3–4)
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We believe in God the Father, the sovereign Creator of heaven and earth, who brought all things into existence out of nothing for His own glory, working through His Son, Jesus Christ. He continually upholds, sustains, and rules over all creation, providence, and redemption by the word of His power and grace. (Genesis 1:1–31; Colossians 1:16–17; Hebrews 1:3; Revelation 4:11)
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We believe that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, moved by love and in perfect accordance with the Father's will, took on human flesh. Conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, He is truly God and truly man—two complete natures united in one divine Person without confusion or division. He lived a completely sinless life, died on the cross as a voluntary, substitutionary sacrifice, and shed His blood to satisfy God’s righteous wrath against sin. He rose bodily and visibly from the dead three days later, ascended into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of the Father. He now serves as the supreme Head of the Church, our advocate, and the sole Mediator between God and man. We look forward with confidence to His bodily return in power and glory to consummate His Kingdom. (John 1:1, 14, 18; 14:8–9; 1 Timothy 2:5, 3:16; 1 Peter 2:24)
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We believe that the Holy Spirit works in all things to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He regenerates the unredeemed, drawing them to repentance and faith, and unites them to Christ and His body, the Church. At the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit permanently indwells, seals, sanctifies, guides, instructs, comforts, and empowers every believer. He bestows spiritual gifts upon believers for Christlike living and for equipping the church to serve one another and glorify God. (John 16:8–15; Romans 8:9–17; 1 Corinthians 12:4–13; Ephesians 1:13–14, 4:11–12; Titus 3:5)
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We believe that God created humanity—male and female—directly in His own image and likeness, free from sin, to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever. Biological sex is an essential, immutable aspect of human identity established by God at creation. We affirm the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death.
Tempted by Satan, humanity chose to rebel against God, bringing sin, spiritual death, and physical mortality upon all mankind. As a result, all human beings are born with a sinful nature and commit personal sin, rendering them totally depraved, alienated from God, without excuse, and subject to His righteous wrath apart from His grace.
We believe that God ordained marriage as an exclusive, lifelong covenant between one biological man and one biological woman, which serves as a earthly picture of Christ’s relationship with His Church. (Genesis 1:26–27, 2:24; Psalm 139:13–16; Romans 1:18, 32, 3:10–19; 5:12–21; Ephesians 5:31–32)
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We believe salvation is a gift of God’s sovereign grace alone, received through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ alone, whose substitutionary death on the cross paid the complete price for our sin. Before the foundation of the world, God unconditionally chose those who would be saved according to His good pleasure and mercy. Salvation is received when a sinner repents of their sin and trusts in Christ's finished work on the cross. Upon trusting Christ, the believer is justified (declared righteous before God), adopted into God's family, transformed into a new creation, and eternally secured in Christ. True believers will evidence their faith through love, good works, and perseverance to the end. (John 10:27–29; Romans 8:29–39; 2 Corinthians 5:17, 21; Ephesians 1:4–5, 2:8–10)
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We believe that all genuine believers in Christ are immediately baptized by the Holy Spirit into the universal Church, the spiritual Body of Christ, of which He is the Head. God commands believers to gather locally in visible assemblies to commit themselves to worship, prayer, biblical instruction, fellowship, mutual accountability, and service through their spiritual gifts, and observing baptism and communion.
The local church functions under the spiritual leadership and care of a plurality of biblical elders and deacons, working together in unity to glorify Christ and fulfill the Great Commission. (Matthew 28:18–20; Acts 2:42–47; 1 Corinthians 11:23–26, 12:12–13; Ephesians 1:22–23, 4:11–16; 1 Timothy 3:1–13)
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We believe in the personal, physical, visible, and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. This "blessed hope" serves as a vital incentive for holy living, passionate service, and urgent evangelism. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved. Those who die in Christ will enter into immediate conscious presence with God, ultimately raised to eternal joy and reward in the new heaven and new earth. Those who reject Christ will be raised to judgment and endure eternal, conscious punishment in hell. (Matthew 25:31–46; John 14:1–3; Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18; Revelation 20:11–15, 21:1–5)