Statement of Beliefs
We believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament and New Testament are the inerrant, inspired, and infallible Word of God. The Bible is the final authority for faith and life.
We believe in the Trinity; one God eternally existing as one essence and three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each of whom is fully God.
We believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
We believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended to heaven
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty.
From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
We believe the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds as true declarations of the scriptural faith we believe and teach. We have included the Apostles’ Creed here in our belief statement and will regularly confess it as a church body.
We believe the Holy Spirit is at work in the life of believers, bringing them to salvation, dwelling in them, and transforming them ever more into the image of Christ.
We believe that humans were created in the image of God. As a result of the fall, all humanity, Christ excluded, is sinful by both birth and action.
We believe that salvation is the free gift of God that can only be obtained by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
We believe the Universal Church consists of all those who have genuine faith in Jesus Christ as Savior. The local congregation is an assembly of believers among whom the Gospel is faithfully taught, and the sacraments are rightly administered.
We believe that baptism and the Lord’s Supper are the two sacraments of the church.
We believe the miraculous and sign gifts of the Holy Spirit that we see in the New Testament are still active within the life of the church.
