Truth is immortal.  Therefore it must be constantly upheld, clarified, proclaimed, and defended.  Because of careful study and with deep conviction, we believe the following to be an accurate interpretation of the indispensable doctrines essential to the Christian faith, which we also teach.

1. The Bible, consisting of both Old and New Testaments, is God’s written revelation to man, inspired and inerrant, in part and in whole as given in its original documents, being completely sufficient and authoritative in all matters pertaining to salvation and godly living.

2. There is but one living and true God, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each equally deserving worship and obedience.

3. Man was created by God in His own image, and having descended from Adam who sinned, have incurred physical, spiritual, and eternal death, which is separation from God, and that as a consequence all human beings are born with a sinful nature, are sinners by choice, and are therefore under condemnation.

4. Jesus Christ the Lord, being fully God and fully man, was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died a substitutionary and atoning death, rose bodily from the dead, and ascended to the right hand of the Father.

5. Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to anyone who repents of his sins and receives Jesus Christ as Saving Lord, thereby obtaining the right to become a child of God unto eternal life, not as a result of any human merit but solely by God’s sovereign grace.

6. Every believer is indwelt and secured by the Holy Spirit and therefore as a new creation walks in the newness of the Spirit by desiring to obey God and striving to grow in Christlikeness.

7. All who put their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one universal church, the living spiritual body of which Christ is the Head and all regenerated persons are members.  This reality is expressed in local assemblies of believers who upon a credible profession of faith through baptism, are associated for worship, service, and fellowship.

8. Jesus Christ will certainly return in His Second Coming to judge the living and the dead, the redeemed to eternal life with Him, the unredeemed to eternal damnation in hell.