Statement of Fundamental Truths

We Believe:

1. There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

2. The Bible in its entirety is the inspired and only infallible Word of God and the only sufficient authority for faith and Christian living.

3. In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father.

4. Man by nature is sinful and is inherently in need of salvation, which is exclusively found through repentance and faith alone in Jesus Christ and His shed blood.

5. Christ’s death provides substitutionary atonement for our sins.

6. Regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential to personal salvation.

7. The Church of Jesus Christ is the universal, spiritual body of believers from every tribe, tongue, kindred and race of peoples, and is indwelt by God through the Holy Spirit and divinely empowered to fulfill ministry and her Great Commission on earth.

8. In the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit in whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life.

9. Jesus Christ literally rose bodily from the dead.

10. Jesus Christ will come to earth again in the Second Advent.

11. In the resurrection and final Judgement of both the saved and the lost, the one to everlasting life and the other to everlasting damnation.

12. Satan exists as a personal, malevolent being who acts as tempter and accuser, for whom hell, the place of eternal punishment, was prepared, where all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity.