Statement of Faith (brief)

1.The 66 books of the Bible are the written Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant throughout.
 
2.There is, has always been and will always be only one true God. He is triune: one God, three Persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

3.All mankind are sinners, inherently from Adam and individually (by choice), and are therefore subject to God’s wrath and condemnation.

4.Freedom from the penalty and power of sin is available to man only through the sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ and His complete and bodily resurrection from the dead.
5.The Holy Spirit enables the sinner to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.

6.The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer to produce the fruits of righteousness.

7.Salvation is a gift received by faith alone in Christ alone and expressed in the individual’s repentance, recognition of the death of Christ as full payment for sin, and acceptance of the risen Christ as Savior, Lord, and God.

8.All things necessary for our salvation are expressly set down in Scripture.

9.Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.

10.Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended to heaven, and is currently seated at the right hand of God the Father, and shall return in person to this earth as Judge of the living and the dead.

11.Satan is the personal spiritual adversary of both God and mankind.

12.Those who do not believe in Christ are subject to everlasting conscious punishment, but believers enjoy eternal life with God.

13.The only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. Any forms of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, incest, fornication, adultery, pornography, etc., are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex.