We believe:
1. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired, inerrant and
infallible Word of God, and the final authority for faith and life.
2. There is only one God, and He has chosen to reveal Himself as God the Father, God
the Son, and God the Holy Spirit: the Trinity.
3. Human beings were created by God in His image, and the sin of Adam (the first
man) marred that image, creating an eternal divide between God and human beings.
Every person is born sinful.
4. Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He was fully God from eternity. Through His
incarnation he became fully man. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of
the Virgin Mary. He lived a perfect, righteous and sinless life in obedience to God
the Father. He was put to death physically by crucifixion, and His body was buried
in a tomb. After three days He was physically raised from the dead and appeared to
many. Forty days later, He ascended into heaven and is now seated in glory at the
right hand of the Father, where He intercedes for His people.
5. The only way a person can have a true relationship with God is through the sacrifice
of Jesus Christ on the cross. All those who repent from their sins and put their faith
in Him are born anew by the Holy Spirit, receive the gift of eternal life and become
children of God. God offers eternal life as a free gift, and it must be received by
faith alone through God’s grace. The life that comes from this gift is the permanent
possession of the one receiving it.
6. It is the will of God that each believer should be filled with the Holy Spirit and
sanctified wholly, separated from sin and worldliness, and fully dedicated to the will
of God, thereby receiving power for holy living and effective service. This is both a
crisis and a progressive experience in the life of the believer subsequent to
conversion.
7. The Lord Jesus will return physically to this earth to judge the living and the dead.
There will be a bodily resurrection of both believers in Him and of unbelievers. The
Second Coming of Jesus is the believer’s blessed hope and an incentive to holy
living and faithful service.
8. The Church consists of all those who have put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,
have been redeemed through His blood and have been born again by the Holy
Spirit. Christ is the Head of the Church, which has been commissioned by Him to
go into all the world and bring the gospel to all nations. The local church is a body
of believers in Christ who are joined together for the worship of God, and to be
strengthened in their faith by being taught the Bible, which is the Word of God.
Church services are also for prayer and fellowship, to proclaim the Gospel and to
observe the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Believer’s baptism and
the Lord’s Supper are the two ordinances of the church found in the Scriptures.
9. Provision is made in the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ for the healing of
the body. Prayer for the sick and anointing with oil are taught in the Scriptures and
are a privilege for the church in the present age.