This is What We Believe
1. There is one true God, a Spirit experienced by man as three Divine Persons -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- each of whom possesses equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
2. Jesus Christ, the Son, is God; the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. Hence, He is perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person.
3. He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone.
4. He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died.
5. He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God, the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own.
6. Man is created in the image and likeness of God. He sinned by disobeying God; thus, he was alienated from his Creator. That historic fall brought all mankind under divine judgment which, without Christ, ultimately leads to condemnation.
7. Man's nature is corrupted, and he is thus totally unable to please God with that nature. Every man is in need of regeneration and renewal evidenced by the testimony of the Holy Spirit.
8. Believing in and following Christ is not a simple agreement or idea, but a complete and perpetual submission and commitment of one's entire soul to the Will of God.
9. The salvation of man is wholly a work of God's free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their living, active faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight.
10. It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they truly accept Christ as their Lord and Savior. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit, but is produced by the submission to Christ's Lordship over them, evidenced by the eventual witness of the Holy Spirit that teaches/guides them in the Way of their Lord, and confirms in them the testimony of God in His written Word.
11. Every believer is called to live in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit to the point that he/she will strive to deny fulfilling the lusts of the flesh, and bear the spiritual fruit of God according to the seasons that He orchestrates.
12. Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, which is His Body, and is composed of all men, physically living and dead; joined to Him through true and living faith.
13. God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship, for participation in spiritually maturing practices, for edification through the Scriptures, and for mutual encouragement and work in His harvest fields through the evangelism of our communities and exhibition of a unified and single Way.
14. At physical death there will be a judgment in which the atoned sins of the believer will be pardoned because of relationship with and submission to Christ, who purifies through blood. Contrarily, the unbeliever, who is naked in their imperfection and not covered by the purifying blood of Christ, will be found disharmonious with the perfection of God and be cast away from God eternally.
15. Jesus Christ Himself will come again to the physical realm to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
16. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every tribe and tongue that the commandments of the Word might be kept. The fulfillment of that Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to "Him who loved us and gave Himself for us."