1. We believe in one God, as revealed in the Old and New Testaments, Who is the Holy Spirit, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2. Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God who offered his sinless life for the salvation of mankind. His sacrifice is the only one necessary and acceptable to God for man to receive grace for eternal life and to walk today in newness of life.
3. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as originally given by God are complete (illuminating and complementing each other), inerrant (containing no contradictions or errors), and timeless (applicable and relevant in our day), a package of revelation for man’s salvation, safety, and benefit.
4. If man confesses Jesus as lord and believes that God raised him from the dead, he receives the gift of holy spirit, the incorruptible seed of Christ, and is born again as a child of God. As a Christian, he or she has eternal-life salvation and the ability to exercise spiritual power and produce spiritual fruit. The new birth marks the start of one’s identification with Christ, which issues in a new life. To experience that newness of life, however, it is the responsibility of each believer to prove to his or her own satisfaction the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God and to live according to the Word of God.
5. As part of our identification, justification through the faith of Jesus Christ is common to all Christians and is the legal decision by God to make man acceptable in His sight by releasing man from the guilt and the death sentence inherited from Adam. The believer thus liberated can leave the past and any negative judgments behind and walk as a member of the household of faith with mutual respect for all Christians as brothers and sisters in the family of God.
6. As part of our identification, each believer is seated with Christ at God’s right hand as a citizen of heaven and is therefore sanctified. Being set apart from this world for God’s purpose, the Christian is to live the love of Christ and to grow in the unifying power of the gift of holy spirit, functioning as an interdependent and necessary member in the body of Christ.
7. As part of our identification, the believer is to joyfully anticipate Christ’s return when the Church of the body of Christ will be gathered, and our new bodies and eternal rewards will be given to us. This God-given hope is our incentive to free ourselves from a limited view of our earthly existence and the burdens and cares that accompany it. Holding fast to our hope, we can live each day with joy and comfort, knowing the eternal and glorious future that awaits us as children of God.
8. The early Christians as recorded in the Scriptures set the pattern for how believers are to organize, network, teach, and share their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
9. The Devil, Satan, is the avowed enemy of God and the spiritual accuser and adversary of man. He is the ringleader of the other fallen angels who are now evil spirits, and together they are actively and permanently opposed to God, Christ and his followers, and the Word of God. The Devil and his minions will one day receive final judgment and destruction.
