1. We believe in one God, the Lord Almighty, Creator of all things, eternally existing in love as three persons and revealing Himself to us as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

2. We believe that God has revealed Himself by act and word in the history of His chosen people and supremely in the person and work of Jesus Christ, the incarnate, personal Word of God, His Son. This revelation has been recorded without error in the Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments by human authors under the guidance and inspiration of the Holy Spirit so that this record is the inspired, written Word of God, the complete, true, and divinely authoritative message of salvation.

3. We believe that man was created in the image of God but by the sin of the first man, Adam, man fell and became subject to death, both spiritual and physical. Because of spiritual death all men have sinned, trusting in and serving those things that are not God but are substitutes for God. Because of this basic sin of idolatry they are objects of God's wrath, which wrath is the opposition of His love to their sin. They are without excuse for their idolatry, since God has made known His power and person in the things that are created.

4. We believe that Jesus Christ is the only Son of God. He is the Word of God who eternally existed with God and is God. Through Him all things were created. For us and the salvation of all men He came down from heaven; He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary: true God and true man. He lived in perfect fellowship with God, the Father, without any sin. By the power of the Holy Spirit He taught the will of God and performed mighty works, wonders and signs. He suffered and was crucified under Pontius Pilate. He died for us on the cross, both spiritually and physically, a perfect sacrifice to take away our sins and an atonement to turn away God's wrath. He was buried and on the third day God raised Him bodily from the dead. He appeared to His disciples for a space of forty days, showing Himself to be alive. He then ascended into heaven to be our high priest and advocate. God exalted Him to His own right hand to be both Lord and Christ. From there He sent the Holy Spirit.

5. We believe that man is saved by the grace of God through faith, completely apart from any meritorious works of the Law. Faith in God and Jesus Christ comes from the hearing of the Word of Christ in the preaching of the Gospel through the convicting and revealing work of the Holy Spirit. When a person responds with faith to this revelation of the tremendous act of God's love for them in Jesus Christ, turning away from his false gods (repentance) and turning to the true God (faith), acknowledging Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, he is saved. In faith he identifies himself with Christ's death and resurrection which water baptism portrays. Men are therefore justified, or set right with God, through faith in Jesus Christ apart from the meritorious works of the Law, faith being reckoned for righteousness. Since all men are born into this world spiritually dead, each man must be born again, passing from death into life, being raised from the dead with Christ, becoming a new creature in Him. A man is born again when, in response to the revealing and convicting work of the Holy Spirit, he puts his faith in Jesus Christ, who is the Life.

6. We believe that the Holy Spirit is God, the third person of the Trinity, whose present ministry is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts men of their unbelief in Jesus and regenerates them by revealing Jesus to them through the Word of God. He indwells, guides, instructs, and empowers the believer for victorious life and service. Jesus Christ baptizes believers with the Spirit. This baptism with the Spirit is not regeneration but may in the experience of the believer occur at the same time or subsequent to the regeneration of the believer and is often accompanied by speaking in tongues. By the power and administration of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts and ministries exist and operate in the body of Christ today.

7. We believe that the true universal church is composed of all persons who through faith in Jesus Christ have been born again of the Holy Spirit and baptized by the Spirit into one body, of which Jesus Christ is the head.

   All believers are priests before God, offering sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving, blessing and forgiving one another. All members of the body of Christ may be used in the spiritual gifts as the Holy Spirit distributes and directs and may be appointed by God to various ministries in the body. These principles imply that there is no distinction between clergy and laity as two essentially different classes or categories of persons in the body of Christ.

   The mission of the church is to preach and teach the gospel of Jesus Christ in all the earth, baptizing new believers with water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

   The local church is an organized group of believers that meet for worship, fellowship and observance of the Lord's Supper in remembrance of His death until He comes.

8. We believe that Jesus Christ will come again personally, bodily and visibly to reign on earth. The return of the Lord is the blessed hope of the believer. At the second coming of Christ the believers will be raised from the dead and/or transformed into His likeness to be forever in His presence. The unbelievers will be raised at the last judgment and will suffer the everlasting torment and anguish of eternal separation from God.