WHAT WE BELIEVE

The Bible, in its entirety, is the infallible, inerrant, and inspired Word of God; it is divine revelation that carries the full weight of God’s authority and to which we are obliged to submit. Within the Godhead there is a unity of three distinct yet fully divine persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; these three are one true, eternal God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

 

God

God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.  God is fully omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, not given to learning or “openness.”

 

Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ is truly God and truly man, having two natures inseparably united in one divine person without confusion, mixture, separate or division.  Each nature retains its own attributes.  In the incarnation, Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, lived a perfect life among us, was crucified, dead, and buried, rose on the third day, ascended to heaven, and will come again in glory and judgment.  He is the only Mediator between God and man.   

 

Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is of one substance with the Father and the Son.  He eternally proceeds from the Father and the Son, and He dwells in the hearts of believers, effecting their regeneration monergistically (John 3:5-8, Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.  The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. “ God alone initiates and completes all the work of salvation) and operating in their sanctification synergistically (1 Corinthians 3:9, “For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.”)

 

Creation

God, by the word of His power, created from nothing the heavens and the earth and all that is in them.  He further preserves and governs all His creatures and all their actions according to His most holy, wise, and powerful providence.

 

Man

After God made the other creatures, He created man, both male and female, in His own image, but because  Adam sinned and woefully fell in his responsibility, he and his posterity entered into a state of moral corruption and moral inability and became estranged from their Creator, thus deserving death as the punishment for sin.

 

Atonement

Because all have sinned, atonement must be made in order for man to be reconciled to God.  Jesus Christ made a complete atonement for His people through His substitutionary atoning death on the cross.  He imputes His righteousness to all believers securing us full redemption for all who repent of their sin and trust in Him alone for salvation.

 

The Law

Christ has established a visible church, which is called to live in the power of the Holy Spirit under the regulation of the authority of Holy Scripture, preaching the gospel of Christ, administering the sacraments, and exercising discipline.

 

Christianity & Culture

We confess the final authority of Scripture and lordship of Jesus Christ, and are committed to the implementation of the social and cultural implications of God’s commandments for the well-being of man and his environment.  We support those organizations that condemn the murder of defenseless human beings at the earliest stages of their development and that reject unbiblical definitions of gender, sexuality, and marriage.