I believe the Bible is God’s inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word. It is complete and serves as supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice. Through diligent study and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we find God’s revelation for salvation and godly living.[1]

I believe God is One, eternally existing in three persons of the same substance: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is the first Person of the Trinity, Creator, and Sustainer of all things, sovereign over all. He is Spirit, self-existent, transcendent, immutable, divinely simple, and infinitely perfect in all His attributes, including love, justice, holiness, and wisdom. He is Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent.[2]

I believe humanity was created in God’s likeness and image, male and female, possessing inherent dignity and worth. God created man for fellowship and to glorify Him. [3]

I believe Adam’s disobedience separated us from God and introduced sin, death, and condemnation, resulting in spiritual death and bondage to sin for all humanity that can only be redeemed and restored through Jesus Christ.[4]

I believe Jesus is the eternal Son of God, the second person of the Trinity, sharing in the divine nature with the Father. He is fully God and fully man, born of the Virgin Mary and conceived by the Holy Spirit, maintaining His divine nature. He is the preexistent Word of God, our mediator and intercessor. He is the sinless Passover Lamb, who atoned for our sins on the cross and rose from the grave, conquering sin and death. He is seated at the right hand of God in heaven. He is Lord, the Messiah with all authority in heaven and on earth.[5]

I believe The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, co-equal with the Father and the Son. He is God, preexistent, eternal, and co-creator of all things. He convicts of sin, leads to repentance, grants new birth, dwells within believers, and seals them for the day of redemption. He empowers the church with spiritual gifts to be effective witnesses and ministers and unites it as one body. He intercedes for us and empowers us.[6]

I believe that through Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross, believers are reconciled to God and receive salvation by grace through faith. By faith, we are justified and declared righteous by Jesus’s merits. We become a new creation through regeneration and are adopted into God’s family as His children and heirs of His promises. The Holy Spirit works in sanctifying believers to be like Christ, and those who trust in Jesus receive the gift of eternal life through faith.[7]

I believe the Church is the united body of believers regenerated by the Holy Spirit through their faith in Jesus, representing God and Christ on earth. Jesus is the Head of the Church and is present when believers gather in His name. The Church does not replace Israel. Through faith in Jesus, Gentile believers are included in God’s chosen people. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper represent God’s grace, participation in Christ’s life, identification with His death and resurrection, and inclusion in the covenantal community after confessing our faith.[8]

I believe Jesus will return to establish His kingdom on earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He will return visibly and bodily. The righteous and the wicked will resurrect for the final judgment, some for eternal life, and some for eternal separation from God. Christ will take His Bride, the Church, to reign with Him on earth for a thousand years, and Satan will be bound. Death and sin will be defeated.[9]

[1] 2 Tim 3:15-17; 2 Pet 1:20-21; Matt 5:17-18. John 5:39; Rom 10:17.

[2] Deut 6:4; Matt 28:19; 1 John 5:7; Gen 1:1; Col 1:17; Rev 4:11; John 4:24; Exod 3:14; Ps 90:2; Mal 3:6; 1 Kgs 8:27; 1 John 4:8; Isa 6:3; Job 42:2; 1 John 3:20; Ps 139:1-4,7-9, 147:5.

[3] Gen 1:26-27; 3:6-24; Is 43:7.

[4] 1 John 3:4; Rom 3:23; 5:12; 6:23; Eph 2:1-3; John 1:29; 2 Cor 5:17-21.

[5] John 1:1-2,14; 17:5; Col 2:9; Phil 2:6-7; Rom 5:8; 1 Cor 5:7; 15:3-4; Mark 16:19; Isa 7:14; 9:6; 52:13-53:12; Mic 5:2; Eph 1:20-22; Matt 1:18-23; 28:18; Phil 2:10-11; 1 Tim 2:5; 1 John 2:1; Heb 7:25.

[6] Gen 1:3; Matt 28:19; 2 Cor 3:17; John 16:8; Titus 3:5; Eph 1:13-14; Gal 5:16,22-23; 1 Cor 12:4,7-13; Rom 8:26-27; Acts 1:8.

[7] Rom 3:23-24, 5:8; Eph 2:8-9; John 3:3; Gal 4:4-7; 2 Cor 3:18; Phil 1:6; John 10:28.

[8] Eph 1:22-23; 2 Cor 5:20; Rom 6:3-4,11:17-24; Rev 7:9-10; Matt 18:20, 28:19; Acts 8:36-38; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 15:11-32; 1 Cor 11:23-26.

[9] Rev. 9:11-16,20:4-6,11-15.