Below is the summarized statement of what we believe as a church. In the future, we will be rolling out detailed versions of each one of these points.
- There is one and only one living and true God. God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe and He eternally exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience.
- Salvation is only possible through faith in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:22). Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary (Matthew 1:18-25). Jesus died to justify my sins condemned me to death (Hebrews 10:10-18). Eternal life begins the moment one receives Jesus Christ into his life by faith (Romans 6:10-11). Jesus was resurrected from the dead (Romans 1:3-5; 1 Corinthians 15:20-22).
- The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and lives in every born-again Christian. The Holy Spirit provides power for living, understanding spiritual truth, and guidance for a believer.
- The Bible is God’s Word to all people; because it is inspired by God through the illumination of the Holy Spirit to its authors, it is truth without any error for the purposes of salvation and sanctification.
- In regards to man, humans are created in the image of God. Through temptation and eventual choice to sin, humanity has become deprived of the innocence which they once possessed through the knowledge of good and evil. Intrinsically, because of the first sin, all humans are born inclined toward sin.
- Because all humanity is born guilty and fall short of the glory of God, the only way people can be accepted into the inheritance of God and communion with God is by the grace of God through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is by God’s grace that He chose to save us and it is through His agency by which we grieve in his Spirit for our continual sanctification and faith.
- The Church is the Body of Christ which includes all of those saved by God’s grace and mercy from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation across all time.
- Baptism is a symbolic act where a believer, in according to his or her faith dies to sin and the old life in the act of immersing one’s self in water in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and is resurrected to be in a new life with Jesus Christ.
- Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act where members of the believing and confessing church memorialize the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and anticipate his second coming.
- All Christians have the explicit duty for making disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Missional living and missionary activities are commanded to seek the lost and to witness the Gospel of Jesus Christ to everybody.