We believe:
That the Bible is the word of God, supernaturally inspired, that it is inerrant in the original manuscripts and preserved by God in its verbal, plenary, inspiration, and that it is a divinely authoritative standard for every age and life. (II Timothy 3:15-17; I Thes. 2:13; II Peter 1:21)
That the Godhead exists eternally in three persons - Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit - and these three are one God. (Deut. 6:4; Isaiah 43:10-11; Matt. 28:9; Lk 3:22)
In God as absolute and sole Creator of the universe and that creation was by divine fiat, not by evolutionary process (Gen. 1:1-2:3; Ps. 104; Neh. 9:6; Heb. 11:1-3)
That God, by His Sovereign choice and out of eternal love for mankind, sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to save sinners (Jn. 3:16; Rom. 5:8)
That Jesus Christ in the flesh was both God and man, that He was born of a virgin and that he lived a sinless life, in which He taught and did mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as revealed in the Gospels, that He was crucified, died as a penalty for our sins and was raised from the dead, bodily, on the third day. Later, He ascended to the Father's right hand, where He is head of the church and intercedes for believers, and from which He is coming again personally, bodily and visibly to this earth to receive us into His Kingdom. (Matt. 1:23; I Pet. 2:21-24; Acts 2:22; 2:33; I Cor. 15:3-5)
That since His death, by His blood, the Lord Jesus Christ made a perfect atonement for sin, redeeming us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, we are saved and justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood. (Gal. 3:15; Rom. 5:1)
That such salvation with its forgiveness of sins, new nature, and hope of eternal life, is entirely apart from works, baptism, church membership - or man's effort - and is of pure grace. (Eph. 2:8; Titus 3:7)
That all who receive Christ become joint-heirs with Christ, and, at death, their spirits depart to be with Christ, and at the rapture their bodies will be raised to the likeness of the body of His glory and dwell forever in His divine presence. (Rom. 8:17; I Thess. 4:16-17)
That the Holy Spirit is a person in God and possesses all the divine attributes. He indwells all believers, baptizes and seals them, and fills them in response to confession of sin and yieldedness. (I Cor. 1:22, 3:16)
That it is the goal of every Christian to grow in spiritual maturity though obedience to the word of God and the indwelling Spirit. (II Peter 1:5-6, 2:18)