A. There is one God eternally existing in three persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
(Matthew 28:19).
B. The Bible is the Word of God, verbally inspired, infallible and inerrant in all that it
says (II Timothy 3:16; I Thessalonians 2:13).
C. The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God (John 1:1), fully man (John 1:14), born of a virgin
(Matthew 1:23), lived a sinless life (Hebrews 4:15), performed miracles (John 4:29),
shed His blood and died a substitutionary death (Hebrews 10:10,12,19), arose bodily
from the dead (I Corinthians 15:12-20), ascended to, and sits in, heaven at the
Father’s right hand (Hebrews 1:3) and will return for His own (John 14:3).
D. Man is, by nature and practice, a sinner separated from God. Reconciliation to God
can only happen by placing faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His work of
redemption at Calvary (Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 2:23; Ephesians 2:8,9 and Romans
10:9,10.
E. Those who receive Christ as their personal Savior are given eternal life. Those who
do not remain in spiritual death and will be separated from God forever in hell
(John 3:18,36 and Matthew 25:46).
F. The Holy Spirit lives in the believer and enables the child of God to walk in purity of
life and submission to the will of God (Ephesians 1:13,14 and Galatians 2:22,23).
G. The Holy Spirit unites all believers in the body of Christ to cause the growth of the
body and to edify the church in love (I Corinthians 12:13 and Ephesians 4:16).
H. The triune God created from nothing, all that is, in the span of six days (Genesis 1).
I. The body of Christ, the church, is composed of all born-again believers who have,
by faith, accepted Christ as Lord. The ministry of the local church is God’s
established instrument for carrying out the Great Commission (Matthew 28:28-20).
J. The Bible is part of our daily curriculum. This Statement constitutes the doctrinal
boundaries wherein we take a firm stand.
K. Human Sexuality
a. We believe God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be
engaged outside marriage (Hebrews 13:4 and I Corinthians 7:1-4).
b. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality,
transgender identity/lifestyle, self-identification, bestiality, incest, fornication,
adultery, and pornography are sinful in the sight of God and the church
(Genesis 2:24; Leviticus 18:1-30; Romans 1:26-29; I Corinthians 5:1; I Corinthians
6:9; I Thessalonians 4:2-7).
c. We believe that God created mankind in His image: male (man) and female
(woman), sexually different but with equal dignity. Therefore, one’s
biological sex must be affirmed. No attempts should be made to physically
change, alter, or disagree with one’s biological gender – including, but not
limited to, elective sex reassignment, transvestite, transgender, or
non-binary gender fluid acts of conduct (Genesis 1:26-28; Romans 1:26-32; I
Corinthians 6:9-11).
d. We believe that God created and ordered human sexuality to be
permanent, exclusive, comprehensive, and a conjugal, “one flesh” union of
man and woman, intrinsically ordered to procreation and the biological
family. Therefore, one must affirm the sexual complementarity of man and
woman and resist any and all same-sex sexual attractions, as well as refrain
from any and all same-sex sexual acts of conduct (Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:24;
Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:5-9; Romans 1:26-27; I Corinthians 6:9-11; Ephesians
5:25-27; Revelation 19:7-9; Revelation 21:2).
e. We believe the biblical definition of marriage is the joining of one man and
one woman by mutual covenant (Genesis 2:24; Romans 7:2).
f. We believe that men and women are spiritually equal in position before God
(Galatians 3:28), but God has ordained distinct and separate spiritual
functions for men and women in the home and the church (Colossians 3:18;
I Timothy 2:8-15). The husband is to be the leader of the home, and men are
to be leaders (pastors, elders and deacons) of the church (I Timothy 3:4-5, 12).
Accordingly, only men are eligible for licensure and ordination by the
church.
g. We believe human life begins at conception, and the unborn child is a living
human being. Abortion constitutes the taking of unborn human life, and
God sees it as murder. We do not believe that abortions of pregnancies due
to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, birth or population control, or
the mental well-being of the mother are acceptable (Job 3:16; Psalm 51:5 and
139:13-16; Isaiah 44:24 and 49:1-5; Jeremiah 1:5 and 20:15-18; Luke 1:44).