STATEMENT OF BELIEFS

We believe that all things in the universe were created and made by God.

We believe that Jesus Christ ascended to the right hand of the Father, and that He will return a second time in power and glory.

• We believe the Bible, consisting of thirty-nine canonical books of the Old Testament and twenty-seven canonical books of the New Testament, is the divinely-inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God.

• We believe the Creator of the universe is a personal, transcendent triune God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• We believe that all things in the universe were created and made by God in the six literal days of the creation week described in Genesis 1:1-2:3, and confirmed in Exodus 20:8-11. The creation record is factual, historical, and perspicuous; pointing to a young earth that is thousands, not billions of years old, thus all theories of origins or development which involve evolution in any form are false. All things which now exist are sustained and ordered by God's providential care. However, a part of the spiritual creation, Satan and his angels, rebelled against God after the creation and are attempting to thwart His divine purposes in creation.

• We believe the first human beings, Adam and Eve, were specially created by God, and all other men and women are their descendants. In Adam, mankind was instructed to exercise "dominion" over all other created organisms, and over the earth itself (an implicit commission for true science, technology, commerce, fine art, and education) but the temptation by Satan and the entrance of sin brought God's curse on that dominion and on mankind, culminating in death and separation from God as the natural and proper consequence.

• We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, which He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, performed many miracles, and accomplished our redemption through the shedding of His blood and sacrificial death on the cross.

• We believe that in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave, God the Father confirmed the deity of His Son and gave proof that the Father accepted the atoning work of Christ on the cross. Jesus' bodily resurrection is also the guarantee of a future resurrection life for all those who have put their faith in Christ as their Lord and Savior.
• We believe that for salvation of lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is able to live a godly life.

• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; of them that are saved into the resurrection of life, and of them that are lost to the resurrection of damnation.

• We believe that all who place their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual body, the church, or the bride of Christ, of which Christ is the Head.