2 Timothy 2:15 (NKJV)

We believe God the Father created all things in six days for His glory according to His own will (Revelation 4:11), through His son, Jesus the Christ, His divine power and wisdom upholds all things according to His Word, and demonstrates His sovereign headship over all creation, His providence, and His redemption (Colossians 1:17, Hebrews 1:3). 

We believe that Jesus the Christ, the eternal Son, was conceived through the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit. He being fully God and fully man (John 1:1, 14, 18; John 14:8-9), lived a sinless life and sacrificially shed His blood, dying on the cross to redeem all who place their faith in Him. He arose from the dead three days later and ascended into heaven, where he sits at the Father’s right hand, He is now Head of His Body the Church, the only Savior and mediator between God and humans, and will return to earth in power and glory to fulfill history and His redemptive mission (1 Timothy 3:16). 

We believe the Holy Spirit was sent by the Father and the Son (John 14:26). He renews and dwells within each believer upon salvation (Ephesians 1:13-14), becoming their source of assurance, strength, wisdom, and gifting for building up the church (1 Corinthians 12:7-11). The Holy Spirit guides believers in understanding and applying the Bible. Appropriated by faith, His power and control empower believers to lead a life of Christ-like character and bear fruit for the Father’s glory (Galatians 5:22-23).

We believe in the one living and true God, eternally (John 17:3) existing in perfect unity as three equally and fully divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19-20). Each member of the Godhead, while executing distinct but complementary roles in redemptive history, has precisely the same nature, attributes, and being, and is equally worthy of the same glory and honor and obedience (John 1:1-4;  Acts 5:3-4).

We believe that God created humankind—male and female—in His own image and likeness, free of sin, to glorify Himself and enjoy His fellowship. Tempted by Satan, but in the sovereign plan of God, humans freely chose to disobey God, bringing sin, death, and condemnation to all humankind. Alienated from God, and subject to His righteous wrath, all of humankind is in desperate need of the Savior (Genesis 3:1-6; Romans 3:10-19;  Romans 1:18, 32). 

We believe that the Lord Jesus the Christ died for the sins of the world as the substitutionary atonement, and that salvation is found in none other than Jesus the Christ. His death fully satisfied God’s righteous wrath for each person that turns from sin in repentance and places their faith in Jesus the Christ. At salvation each person is made a new creation by the Holy Spirit, declared righteous before God, and secured as an adopted heir forever. Genuine faith continues in a life that is glorifying to God (Romans 8:37-39; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 12:13). 

We believe that upon placing one’s faith in Jesus the Christ as Savior, the believer is made part of the Body of Christ, the one universal Church, of which Jesus the Christ is the Head. The Scriptures exhort believers to gather locally in order to devote themselves to worship, prayer, teaching of the Word, fellowship, the ordinances of baptism and communion, service to the local body through the development and use of talents and spiritual gifts, and outreach to the world to make disciples (Ephesians 1:22-23, 4:16; Acts 2:42-46; 1 Corinthians 14:26; Matthew 28:18-20).

We believe that Christian baptism by immersion in water is a public identification of Jesus the Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. Although baptism is not required for salvation, it is commanded of all believers and is for believers only (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:38, 41; Acts 18:8). Scripture illustrates how baptism takes place after personally receiving forgiveness of sin through the acceptance ofJesus the Christ. The waters of baptism are a symbol of our death to sin, burial, and resurrection to new life that happens when we become new creations in Jesus the Christ (Colossians 2:12; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 6:1-4). 

We believe communion is the commemoration by believers of the death of Jesus the Christ, and a reminder —through the bread which represents the Savior's broken body and the juice/wine which represents the blood he shed on the cross — of redemption through His sacrifice. Communion is to be a time of confession for sin and is preceded after careful self-examination (Acts 2:41; Romans 6:3-6; 1 Corinthians 11:20-29).

We believe it is the aim, duty, and privilege of every believer and local church fellowship to glorify God by responding as active participants in the Great Commission call of Jesus the Christ to go and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19). We believe the primary focus and priority of this call is centered on efforts to establish, strengthen, and reproduce biblically-based churches, for future generations, in glorification to God. 

We believe in and expectantly await the glorious, visible, personal, premillennial return of the Lord Jesus the Christ. The blessed hope of His return has vital bearing on the personal life, service, and mission of the believer (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Ephesians 5:27). We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost. The lost will be raised to judgment and experience eternal wrath in hell. The saved will be raised to eternal joy in the new heaven and new earth in the manifested presence of God according to Acts 1:3, 9;  Hebrews 7:25-26. 

We believe the in the five-fold ministries (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers) of  which the Holy Spirit sent as gifts to equip believers in Christ to do the work of service (Ephesians 4:11).