What We Believe

  1. There Is One Triune God.

There is only one true and living God, who is the Creator and sustainer of all things, visible and invisible. He exists eternally in three distinct persons—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

(Genesis 1:1 | Deuteronomy 6:4 | Matthew 28:19 | 2 Corinthians 13:14 | Colossians 1:16)

  1. The Bible Is God’s Inspired Word. 

The Bible is God’s written revelation of Himself to humanity, divinely given through human authors who were inspired by the Holy Spirit. It is entirely inerrant, trustworthy, sufficient, and authoritative for matters of life and faith. It is the believer’s primary authority. 

(Psalm 119:89, 105 | Isaiah 55:10–11 | Acts 5:29 | 2 Timothy 3:14–17 | 2 Peter 1:19–21)

  1. God Created All Humans In His Image

God created human beings, male and female, in his image. This maleness and femaleness is innate, unchangeable, and good. Likewise, marriage can only take place between one man and one woman. Human beings are the crowning work of God’s creation, made to live in communion with Him, and given stewardship over all creation. Because they were made in God’s image, humans have innate value and moral responsibility. Even in their fallen state, God demands that every person be treated with love, dignity, and respect regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, class, disability, or character.

(Genesis 1:26–27, 1:31, 2:24, 9:6 | Jonah 4:11 | Acts 17:26–28 | Romans 1:26-27 | James 3:9)

  1. All People Have Sinned And Are In Need Of Redemption

Because of humankind’s fall into sin, all human beings are born with a corrupt nature disposed towards sin, and are unable to please God. Once capable of moral action, all people disobey God willfully. God’s just judgment on sin is both physical and spiritual death, thus creating the need for redemption and reconciliation with God. Because of the corruption of sin, human beings are unable and unwilling to do anything to secure their salvation.

(Jeremiah 17:9 | Romans 3:23, 5:12–14, 8:7–8 | Ephesians 2:1–3 | Titus 3:3)

  1. Redemption Is Available To All People Through Faith In Jesus

Salvation comes only by being united to Christ through faith as a person hears and believes the gospel. When people repent of sin and trust Christ alone, at that moment they receive forgiveness for their sins, reconciliation with God, and eternal life. This salvation is accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is wholly of God by grace based on Christ’s life, death, and resurrection—not based on human works.

(John 20:31 | Ephesians 2:8-9 | Romans 8:1, 10:9, 13 | Titus 3:4-7 | 2 Peter 3:9)

  1. Jesus Is The Only Way Of Salvation

Salvation comes only through Jesus Christ, the one mediator between God and man. No other religion, belief, or person can reconcile God and man. He alone can provide forgiveness and eternal salvation.

(John 14:5–7 | Acts 4:11–12 | Romans 5:11 | Colossians 2:13-15 |  1 Timothy 2:5–6)

  1. Jesus Is Both Our Savior And Our Lord

Jesus is fully God and fully human. According to the plan and promise of God, He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died on the cross as a substitute for all who would believe in him, and rose from the dead. As the risen Lord, he ascended into heaven, where he is seated at the Father’s right hand, ruling and reigning, and will one day return to judge the living and the dead.

(Acts 2:36 | Acts 10:42 | Philippians 2:5–11 | Colossians 1:15–20; 2:9 | 2 Corinthians 5:21)

  1. The Holy Spirit Indwells And Empowers Every Believer

When a person repents and believes in Christ, they are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and secured by Him forever. The Holy Spirit continues the work of redemption in the life of every believer, forming them into the image of Christ as they submit every area of their lives to Christ’s lordship (e.g. identity, character, family, vocation, ambition, attitudes, gender, sexuality, habits, relationships, time, possessions, etc.)

(John 14:16-17; 16:7–15 | Romans 8:9 | 1 Corinthians 6:18–20 | Ephesians 1:13–14)

  1. God Calls All Individual Believers Into His Body, The Church. 

The Holy Spirit immediately joins all people who put their faith in Jesus Christ in one unified spiritual body called the Church, of which Jesus Christ is the head. Christians are meant to follow Christ with and among His people in local Churches, which are visible expressions of his invisible, universal body.

(Matthew 18:17, 28:19-20 | Acts 2:42–47 | 1 Corinthians 12:12–13, 27 | Ephesians 1:22–23; 4:1–6 | Philippians 2:3-4)

  1.  Jesus Will Return In Glory

God’s people’s lives should be lived in eager expectation of His return. God will bring the world to its appropriate end in His own time and in His own way. Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to judge all people, both the saved and the unsaved. Those who belong to Christ will receive a glorified body and dwell forever with the Lord in a New Heavens and New Earth. Those who have not trusted in Christ will receive God’s full and just judgment against their sin forever. 

(Matthew 25:46 | Acts 1:11 | 1 Corinthians 15:20–28 | 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 | Titus 2:13 | 2 Peter 3:11-13 | Revelation 20:11–15)