We Believe...

• ... that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority.

• ... in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three in one coequal, which is the Trinity.

• ... that Jesus Christ was begotten of God, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary.

• ... in the Holy Spirit, one of three persons of the Trinity, who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He is the life of every believer, and he empowers the preaching and teaching of the gospel.

• ... that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but spiritual death, which is separation from God; that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners in thought, word, and deed.

• ... that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified by His shed blood.

• ... in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into heaven and His present life there as High Priest and Advocate for all believers.

• ... in that "blessed hope," the personal, premillenial, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

• ... that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become children of God, and heirs of eternal life. This is a relationship in which they are eternally secure.

• ... in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost, and the felicity of the saved, which demand heaven and hell.

• ... in the existence of a personal devil, who is working in the world to destroy the souls of men and that he and his angels and all who do not receive Christ as their Savior will eternally perish in the lake of fire.

• ... in the Church, the Body of Christ, whose mission is to preach gospel to all the world, with its endeavors being supported by the free will, gifts, and offerings of the people.

• ... that the ordinances of the Church, given by our Lord, are Baptism (by immersion following conversion) and the Lord's Table (communion).