Core Beliefs

1. There is one God who created and sustains all things, and who eternally exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
2. God reveals Himself in creation, in history, and supremely in His Son, Jesus Christ as recorded in the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. These scriptures are the supreme and final authority for the church.
3. God made man in His own image, with free will, moral character, and a spiritual nature. Man fell into sin, bringing depravity and death into the world; as a sinner, man is self-centered and self-willed, unwilling and unable to break with sin.

4. There is one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, and by His death, shed blood, and resurrection made it possible for man to be reconciled to God.
5. Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ, the free gift of God to those who repent and accept Christ as Lord and Savior.
6. The Holy Spirit convicts of sin, effects the new birth, baptizes all believers into the body of Christ, gives guidance in life, empowers for service, and enables perseverance in faith and holiness.
7. Those who repent and believe should be baptized with water in obedience to the scriptures, thereby identifying with Christ in His death and resurrection.
8. The church is the body of Christ, the brotherhood of believers, a disciplined people obedient to the Word of God, and a fellowship of love, intercession and healing. Christ commissioned the church to go into all the world, making disciples of all nations.
9. In obedience to the scriptures the church should celebrate the communion of the Lord's Supper as a remembrance of Christ's broken body and shed blood.
10. Christ will return to fulfill His kingdom. He will judge the just and the unjust; unbelievers will be delivered to eternal punishment, and believers will be taken to reign with Him in glory.