Salvation is brought about through faith alone, sola fide; by grace alone, sola gratia; in Christ alone, solo christo; revealed by the Bible alone, sola scriptura; all to the glory of God alone, soli deo gloria.
1) Scripture
We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament Scripture alone to be inspired by God and inerrant and infallible in their original autographs, and that they alone are the supreme and final authority in faith and life.
2) Trinity
We believe in One God who is triune, a plurality in His unity. God is uncreated, pure act, simple, perfect, infinite, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, holy, and immutable existing as a unity in one essence and three Persons; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God is NOT three natures in one nature, or three essences in one essence, or three persons in one person. Rather God is three persons in one nature, “God is one in His substance. His existence is His nature, which is His essence (what God is), and the plurality is in God's persons (how he relates within himself).
3) God
We believe in one infinite God who is self-existent (not self caused), necessary, He has many attributes affirmed in only one Being who was the First Cause of all creation and whom created and sustains all things through His Word.
4) Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is the Second Person of the Trinity, the Logos, the Eternal Word manifested in the flesh. Because He is second person of the Godhead He is self-existent and through Him all things were created (John 1: 1-5). He is fully God and He alone is worthy of all glory and honor. Jesus Christ had two natures that communed intimately but did not overlap—two natures united. Because Jesus was God and human alone can reconcile mankind with God.
5) Incarnation
Jesus Christ humbled Himself and came to earth in the form of a baby, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and that He is totally true God and totally true man, having two distinct natures concomitantly in one Person. His incarnation was foreknown before the foundations of the universe and its purpose was to redeem all mankind and to forever defeat death in Jesus Christ's by His substitutionary death on a Roman Cross and His bodily Resurrection from the tomb.
6) The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit, being the Third Person of the Godhead, convicts men of sin, regenerates, indwells, baptizes, seals, and sets believers apart to a holy life; that He keeps and empowers believers day by day. We believe that He is the Teacher of the Word of God through which He guides us in our daily lives.
7) Creation
We believe in the special creation of the entire space-time universe and of every basic form of life in the six historic days of the Genesis creation record. We also believe in the historicity of the biblical record, including the special creation of Adam and Eve as the literal progenitors of all people, the literal fall and resultant divine curse on the creation, the worldwide flood, and the origin of nations and diverse languages at the tower of Babel.
8) Resurrection
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ arose from the dead in the same physical body, though glorified, in which He had lived and died, and that His resurrection body is the pattern of that body which will be given to all believers at the return of Christ.
9) Ascension
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven in the same glorified physical body in which He arose, was seated at His Father's right hand, assuring us of the perfection of His work of redemption, and that He now, as Head over all things to the Church, is engaged on behalf of the saved as our Advocate.
10) Christ’s Imminent Return
We believe in the personal, premillennial, and imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ. His return is for His Bride the Church; His fellow heirs. On that day the living, preceded by the dead in Christ, will arise at the last trump to join the Lord in the air, to be clothed in their glorified bodies to reign with Christ and to inhabit the New Heavens and the New Earth.
11) Salvation
We believe in the prevenient grace of God prior to salvation leading man to Christ and God's effectual grace in bringing the elect to salvation. Christ died for all men, but only those who receive the salvific work of the Lord Jesus Christ by faith in Christ alone, by faith alone, apart from all good works, are born again of the Holy Spirit; justified once and for all, and have become children of God. Because our redemption is obtained through by God's grace and by faith alone, not by works, it cannot be lost by works or subordinated by man’s willful acts.
12) The Church
We believe that the universal Church of Jesus Christ is composed of those who have truly accepted the free gift offered by Jesus Christ through His atoning death and bodily Resurrection and who serve God at His pleasure and for His glory. The church has been called and commanded to make disciples until Christ returns to take His Bride home where she will rule with and worship Jesus Christ who redeemed her.
13) Angels
a. Heavenly Angels
The Angels are finite, created, sentient beings like man, but created as spirit not temporal beings and all were all created at a moment in time. All had a onetime choice to serve God or rebel. There is no salvation for those who rebelled and the eternal joy of service for those who chose God. They exist to do God's bidding, and to praise and glorify God.
b. Satan and his Demons
Satan (Lucifer) is a created spirit being created as supreme among the angels to serve God. He, along with his minions, chose to rebel against the One True God and make himself God. In doing so he entered a irreversible fallen state.
His mission, attitude, and warfare are antithetical to all of God's creation, purposes, and people. He wars against the Church of Christ and the Jewish nation restrained only by the power of God's Spirit.
Satan’s destiny, along with his demons, is set and predetermined from the foundations of the earth for ultimate, eternal, imprisonment in the Lake of Fire.
