- WE BELIEVE in one sovereign God, eternally existing in three persons: the everlasting Father, His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, and the Holy Spirit, the giver of life; and we believe that God created the Heavens and the earth out of nothing by His spoken word, and for His own glory.
- WE BELIEVE that God has revealed Himself and His truth in the created order, in the Scriptures, and supremely in Jesus Christ; and that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writing, so that they are fully trustworthy and of supreme and final authority in all they say.
- WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, was true God and true man, existing in one person and without sin; and we believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life there for us as Lord of all, High Priest, and Advocate.
- WE BELIEVE that God directly created Adam and Eve, the historical parents of the entire human race; that they were created equally in His own image, distinct from all other living creatures, and in a state of original righteousness; that God created them as male and female; that male and female are the only two sexes, or genders, of all human beings; that marriage is the union of one man and one woman covenanting to live together for the rest of their lives; and that no other sexual union, whether between a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, or among more than two persons, constitutes marriage.
- WE BELIEVE that our first parents sinned by rebelling against God’s revealed will and thereby incurred both physical and spiritual death, and that as a result all human beings are born with a sinful nature that leads them to sin in thought, word, and deed.
- WE BELIEVE in the existence of Satan, sin, and evil powers, and that all these have been defeated by God in the cross of Christ.
- WE BELIEVE that sin is the transgression of the moral law of God, which is summarized most succinctly in the two Great Commandments, to love God, and to love neighbor (Matthew 22:36–39), and in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1–17; Deuteronomy 5:6–21), and is explicated in greater detail, revealing what each commandment requires and prohibits, throughout Scripture.
- WE BELIEVE that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, triumphing over all evil; that all who believe in Him are justified by His shed blood and forgiven of all their sins; and that justification is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, not by any good works we may do or sacraments the church may apply.
- WE BELIEVE that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith have been born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God and are enabled to offer spiritual worship acceptable to God.
- WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit indwells and gives life to believers, enables them to understand the Scriptures, empowers them for godly living, and equips them for service and witness.
- WE BELIEVE that the one, holy, universal Church is the body of Christ and is composed of the communities of Christ’s people. The task of Christ’s people in this world is to be God’s redeemed community, embodying His love by worshiping God with confession, prayer, and praise; by proclaiming the gospel of God’s redemptive love through our Lord Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth by word and deed; by caring for all of God’s Earth and actively seeking the good of everyone, especially the poor and needy.
- WE BELIEVE in the blessed hope that Jesus Christ will return to this earth, personally, visibly, and unexpectedly, in power and great glory, to gather His elect, to raise the dead, to judge the nations, and to bring His Kingdom to fulfillment.
- WE BELIEVE in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting punishment of the lost, and the everlasting blessedness of the saved.
