Who We Are

We believe the Bible is the inspired and authoritative Word of God. It is without error in the original writings and serves as our supreme guide for faith, doctrine, and daily practice.

We believe in one God who eternally exists as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each person is fully and equally God, yet each is personally distinct.

We believe God the Father is the Creator and sovereign Ruler of the universe. He is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving, and all-wise. As a good and faithful Father, He is completely trustworthy in all His works and unfailing in every promise.

We believe Jesus Christ is fully God, co-equal with the Father, and fully human. He lived a sinless life and willingly gave Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all people by dying on the cross. After three days He rose from the dead, revealing His authority over sin and death and providing eternal life to all who trust in Him.

We believe the Holy Spirit is a personal and active presence who restrains evil and convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He dwells in every believer. At the moment of faith in Christ, the Spirit baptizes believers into the body, seals them for salvation, regenerates them, grants spiritual gifts, and remains fully present to fill, lead, and empower His people throughout their lives.

We believe that humans were created innocent and in the image and likeness of God. Through sin, mankind fell from this original state, bringing physical and spiritual death to all people. We are unable to earn God's favor and stand in need of His saving grace. We believe that mankind's sinful nature is fundamentally rebellious toward God and His good design for life, worship, and flourishing. We believe God created mankind in His image and assigned gender as male and female, making them biologically and sexually distinct yet equal in dignity, value, and worth.

God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. We believe God established marriage as a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman, designed to reflect the relationship between Christ and His Church. We believe husbands and wives are equal in worth before God. A husband is called to love his wife as Christ loved the Church, and a wife is called to graciously support the servant leadership of her husband. We believe children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing from the Lord.

We believe salvation is a sovereign gift of God, received through personal faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for sin. We believe that people are justified by grace through faith, not by works. We believe Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that no one is saved apart from a conscious, personal decision to trust Him as their one and only Savior. We believe that all true believers are kept secure in Christ forever.

We believe the Church is a community of baptized believers united by faith in Christ. It is devoted to His teaching and committed to bringing the Gospel to the world. The Church works together in love and unity for the purpose of glorifying Christ.

We believe Christ instituted the ordinances of water baptism and the Lord's Supper, to be faithfully observed by believers until He returns. We believe baptism by immersion is the biblical expression of a believer's identification with Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection. We believe the Lord's Supper is a memorial of Christ's sacrificial death and a declaration of our hope in His return, to be practiced with reverence and self-reflection.

We believe the Kingdom of God refers both to His rule over all creation and to His saving rule in the lives of those who willingly submit to Jesus Christ. The Kingdom is entered through a simple, trusting faith in Christ. Christians are called to pray and work for God's Kingdom to advance on earth. The Kingdom will reach its full completion when Jesus Christ returns.

God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous will receive their reward and dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.

We believe every follower of Jesus is called to make disciples of all nations. When a person is born again by the Holy Spirit, God produces in them a genuine love for others. Sharing the gospel is not only a command from Christ but also a natural expression of a transformed heart. Every believer has the responsibility to lead others to Christ through clear verbal witness, supported by a Christlike lifestyle.

We believe that Christian education is an important part of the work of God's Kingdom, closely connected to the mission of the Church and the call to generosity and service. We also believe that education should maintain a healthy balance between academic freedom and academic responsibility.

We believe God is the source of every blessing and everything we have ultimately belongs to Him. Because of this, Christians are responsible to use their time and treasures for God's glory and for the good of others. Scripture teaches that believers should give cheerfully, regularly, intentionally, proportionately, and generously to support the work of Christ and advance His mission on earth.

We believe that Christ's people may form associations and partnerships that help churches work together to advance the mission of God's Kingdom. These organizations exist to support cooperation, not to exercise authority over one another or over individual churches. We also believe that cooperation among different Christian denominations is good and beneficial whenever it promotes the work of the gospel.

We believe Christians are called to make the will of Christ supreme in our personal lives and in the world around us. Following the example of Jesus, believers should stand against racism, greed, selfishness, and all forms of evil. We believe Christians should work to care for those in need — the orphaned, the abused, the poor, the elderly, the helpless, and the sick. We are also called to speak for the unborn and defend the sanctity of every human life from conception to natural death.

Church and state should be separate. The state owes to every church protection and full freedom in the pursuit of its spiritual ends. A free church in a free state is the Christian ideal.

We believe every person is created as an eternal being and will exist forever either in separation from God because of sin or in eternal union with God through His forgiveness and salvation. Eternal separation from God is Hell; eternal fellowship with Him is Heaven. Both Heaven and Hell are real places of conscious, everlasting existence.