It is inspired in every word, and absolutely inerrant in the original documents. We affirm the infallibility, sufficiency, and authority of Scripture. We believe that there is but one Living and true God, an infinite, all-knowing Spirit, perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons – the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – each equally deserving worship and obedien
ce. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory. We believe that salvation of man, who is sinful and lost, is instantaneous and accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God when the repentant sinner – enabled by the Holy Spirit – responds in faith. This salvation is wholly of God by grace on the basis of the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, the merit of His shed blood, and not on the basis of human merit or works. All the redeemed are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever. We believe in the Spirit-filled life. As the supernatural and sovereign Agent in regeneration, the Holy Spirit baptizes all believers into the Body of Christ at the moment of salvation. The Holy Spirit also indwells, sanctifies, instructs, empowers them for service, and seals them unto the day of redemption. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved; the saved unto the resurrection of life, and the unsaved unto the resurrection of damnation. We believe that all who put their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual Body, the church, of which Christ is the Head. The purpose of the church is to glorify God by building its members up in the faith, by instruction of the word, by fellowship, by keeping the ordinances of God, and by advancing and communicating the gospel to the entire world. The formation of the church, the body of Christ, began on the Day of Pentecost and will be completed at the coming of Christ for His own at the rapture. We believe in the Sola Statements of the Protestant Reformation. Sola Scriptura - The Bible is the sole written divine revelation and alone can bind the conscience of believers absolutely [Psalm 119:18; Psalm 138:2; II Timothy 3:14-17]. Sola Fide - Justification is by faith alone. The merit of Christ imputed to us by faith is the sole ground of our acceptance by God, by which our sins are remitted [Galatians 3:6-11]. Solus Christus - Christ is the only mediator through whose work we are redeemed [I Timothy 2:5-6; Colossians 1:13-18]. Sola Gratia - Our salvation rests solely on the work of God’s grace for us and in us [Ephesians 1:3-8]. Soli Deo Gloria - To God alone belongs the glory [Romans 11:36; Ephesians 3:21; I Peter 4:11; Revelation 7:12].
