BELIEFS

DOCTRINAL CONVICTIONS

We believe in one God, Father, Almighty who has existed eternally, and is the source and sustainer of all things. He is perfectly good, and everlastingly loving as He provides for us and for all of creation at every moment.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ who is Light from Light and true God from true God. He has been fathered by the Father, not created, and is of one essence with the Father. He was made flesh by the Holy Spirit. He lived a perfect life before laying down His life on the cross. Upon His physical resurrection, death and sin were overcome by Him who was both fully God and fully man. The incorruptibility of God drove out the corruptness of our humanity in the risen body of our Savior. In short, Jesus united with our fallen humanity so that we could unite with Him in His divinity. Our hope, and our glory, now lies in His promise to return, to conquer death in its entirety as judge over all, so that we can live out our lives in His eternal glorious presence.

We believe the Holy Spirt, the Lord and Giver of Life proceeds forth from the Father and from the Son and dwells within our hearts. His Spirit provides us with a new life that we can live now as we eagerly await our resurrection in the Son. These three, Father, Son, and Spirit have always existed in the same essence, and are to be worshiped and glorified as one God.

We believe that humanity is inherently sinful and fallen. Though created in perfect harmony with God and with each other, humanity became irreversibly corrupted, apart from the saving grace of Jesus, when they chose power over love when they listened to the created snake instead of the Creator God. Now all of humanity has followed the same path of corruption and spiritual death and is incapable on its own of rectifying its course and returning to its original, true form of humanity.

We believe that despite humanity’s heartless rebellion towards its loving Creator, God in His perfect love, loved us while we were still His enemy. In the greatest act of love and mercy in all of history, God provided a way of salvation through His Begotten Son. This gift, offered freely to all, is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Those who persist in pursuing salvation apart from this gift, will experience eternal anguish and disharmony with themselves, others and God.

Lastly, we believe the Holy Spirit spoke to us through the prophets and the various authors of the sixty-six books of the Bible. We work diligently to understand the Scriptures, under the guidance of His Holy Spirit, in their grammatical, historical and cultural contexts. We gather, under the provision of His Spirit, each week to study the Scriptures as part of the universal, apostolic church. We baptize those who confess this faith as it stands written here, and partake of communion together in celebration of Christ’s redeeming work. We await the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come.