We believe in the one God who eternally exists in three distinct yet equal persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—all sharing the same nature and perfections and deserving of the same honor. Each possesses unique personal attributes, yet there is no division of substance or essence among them.

Deuteronomy 6:4, Psalm 68:5, Psalm 90:2, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:18, Matthew 1:18, Matthew 3:16-17, Matthew 5:48, Matthew 28:19, Mark 13:32, John 1:1, John 1:14, John 5:18, John 10:30, John 17:22, Acts 5:3-4, Romans 1:4b, Romans 1:7, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Ephesians 4:6, Colossians 2:9, 1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 1:3, 1 Peter 2:22, 1 John 5:20, 2 Corinthians 13:14, Revelation 22:13.

We believe that God the Father works and acts in history distinctly from, yet in continuous cooperation with, the other persons of the Trinity. The Father disciplines, gives wisdom, and protects according to His goodness and faithfulness. He loves sacrificially, sending the Son to accomplish the work of redemption. The Father adopts us into the family of God and is intimately aware of, and faithfully provides for, the needs of His children.

Genesis 1:26, Proverbs 3:11-12, Psalm 46:1, Psalm 145:15-16, Isaiah 63:16, Habakkuk 3:19, Matthew 3:17, Matthew 6:8, Luke 1:35, John 3:16, John 5:19-20, John 6:27, John 8:42, Romans 8:15, Romans 15:6, 2 Corinthians 6:18, Ephesians 1:3, Hebrews 12:8-9, James 1:5, James 1:17, 1 Peter 1:2, 1 Peter 1:3, 1 John 3:1, 1 John 4:14.

We believe that Jesus is the eternal Son of God—neither made nor created, but eternally pre-existent with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Moved by love and in obedience to the Father, the Son was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. In doing so, Jesus took on a true human nature, adding humanity to His divinity, both body and soul, yet without sin and without diminishing any of His deity.

We believe in the literal, sacrificial death and bodily resurrection of Jesus. He rose from the dead, forever breaking the power of sin and death. Having ascended into heaven, Jesus now rules and reigns at the right hand of God, where He acts as high priest, intercessor, and advocate on our behalf. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

Jesus sends the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father, to act as our helper on Earth.

Matthew 1:23, Mark 13:26, John 1:14, John 8:58, John 15:26, John 16:7, John 17:5, Acts 1:9, Acts 7:55, Romans 1:4, Romans 6:9, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, Ephesians 2:18, Philippians 2:7, 1 Timothy 2:5, 2 Timothy 4:1, Hebrews 2:14, Hebrews 2:17, Hebrews 13:8, 1 John 2:1.

We believe that the Holy Spirit has a unique personhood and is co-equal, co-powerful, and co-eternal with the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. When a believer receives salvation, the Holy Spirit regenerates, seals, baptizes them into the body of Christ, and indwells them permanently. The Holy Spirit teaches, gives wisdom, understanding, counsel, knowledge, and might, and guides believers in all truth.

The Holy Spirit distributes spiritual gifts for the glory of God, the edification of the church, the common good, and to serve one another as stewards of God’s varied grace. No particular gift is required for, nor acts as evidence of, salvation.

Genesis 1:2, Isaiah 11:2, John 3:5, John 14:16, John 14:26, John 16:8, John 16:13, Acts 8:29, Acts 10:19-20, Romans 8:11, Romans 8:11, 1 Corinthians 2:10b, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 1 Corinthians 12:11, 1 Corinthians 12:13, Ephesians 1:13, Hebrews 9:14, 1 Peter 4:10.

We believe the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are the complete written record of God’s self-disclosure to humankind. Recorded by individuals under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the Bible is the written word of God: living and active, powerful, eternal, unstoppable, true, and infallible in whatever it affirms, and therefore of supreme authority in all matters about which it speaks. The Word of God guides, builds up, encourages, corrects, bears witness to gospel truth, guards against deceit, and trains us in righteousness. Each book is to be understood according to its context and purpose, with reverent obedience to God, who speaks through it with living power. The received Scriptures are totally sufficient for all matters pertaining to faith, practice, and doctrine.

Psalm 19:7-9, Psalm 119:105, Isaiah 40:8, Isaiah 55:11, Jeremiah 23:29, Matthew 5:18, Matthew 24:35, John 17:17, John 5:39-40, Acts 20:32, Romans 10:17, Romans 15:4, 1 Corinthians 2:13, Galatians 1:8, Colossians 2:8, Colossians 3:16, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, 2 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 4:12, 2 Peter 1:21.

We believe that, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and everything that exists, out of nothing. God is both transcendent from and immanently and intimately involved with, in, and through what He has made. The world that God established was declared “very good.”

We believe that God made human beings, male and female, in His image and likeness and entrusted them with the responsibility to serve as stewards of all creation. This image of God given to us is the foundation for the inherent dignity and worth of all people, everywhere.

Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:27, Genesis 1:31, Genesis 2:7, Genesis 5:1, Deuteronomy 4:7, Psalm 33:6, Psalm 113:5-6, Psalm 139:1-2, Psalm 139:13, Isaiah 55:8-9, Matthew 10:29-31, John 1:3, John 1:14, John 8:23, Acts 17:27, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Colossians 1:17, Hebrews 11:3, Revelation 4:11.

Although God made us to be "very good," humanity rebelled against Him, and sin entered the world. Our failure to obey God in thought, word, and deed—whether personally or communally, inwardly or outwardly—constitutes sin against God.

The effects of sin impact all creation, including the entire human race. Sin separates humans from the relationship with God for which they were designed, distorts the image and intent of the gifts God gives, and, when fully grown, leads to death.

Setting right what was broken through sin cannot be accomplished by any human effort or any other means; it requires the work of God on our behalf.

Genesis 3:7-10, Exodus 20:16, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Isaiah 45:22, Isaiah 55:2, Isaiah 64:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Matthew 5:28, Matthew 6:24, Mark 7:21-23, Luke 6:46, Romans 3:23, Romans 5:12, Romans 5:19, Romans 8:20-21, Romans 8:7-8, Ephesians 4:18, Ephesians 5:5-6, James 1:15, 1 John 3:8

We believe that while we were still dead in our sin, God sent Jesus to accomplish salvation for everyone who believes in Him. The free gift of salvation is offered to everyone, everywhere. Salvation is not the result of anything we do or deserve; it is received solely by grace through faith in Jesus.

Whoever receives salvation is born again, or regenerated, and made a new creation. As a new creation, we receive redemption, which is the vicarious payment by God for the cost of sin. Through that redemption, we receive justification, which is freedom from the penalty of sin and the exchange of our sinfulness for Christ’s righteousness. Through the righteousness of Jesus, we receive adoption into the family of God, as well as reconciliation, which is the restoration of the relationship that sin distorts.

While we are eternally secure in our salvation, we work out what we have received by engaging in the lifelong process of being conformed to the image and likeness of Christ, through submission to the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.

Although we experience sin and its painful effects in this life, God works powerfully through all circumstances for our good. Our present salvation points to our future life with God, where we will suffer no more but perfectly glorify God and participate in His glory forever. This process of sanctification, nourished by the Word of God and the Holy Spirit in fellowship with others, is characterized by ever-increasing freedom from bondage to sin and ever-increasing growth in righteousness.

Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 1:14, Ephesians 2:1, Philippians 2:12-13, Galatians 5:5, Galatians 5:24, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:17, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 2 Corinthians 7:1, 2 Corinthians 12:9, James 4:7, 1 Peter 1:18-19, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Peter 4:12, 1 John 5:20, John 3:16, John 3:36, John 8:36, John 10:28, John 17:17, Acts 4:12, Romans 3:24-26, Romans 5:8, Romans 5:9, Romans 5:11, Romans 6:14, Romans 8:28, Titus 3:5, Hebrews 2:1, Revelation 21:4, Revelation 7:12

We believe that the body of Christ comprises everyone who has received the free gift of salvation. This affiliation transcends racial, social, gender, denominational, ethnic, and cultural distinctions, while being enriched by that diversity.

The church is distinguished by its proclamation of the gospel message, participation in sacred ordinances, and love for God, one another, and the world.

As well, the church serves as a sign and foretaste of the kingdom of God, neither conforming to the world around it nor abandoning its witness to it. Every Christian has been uniquely equipped for the work of the gospel by the Holy Spirit and commissioned by Jesus to participate in the ministry of reconciliation.

Matthew 5:13-16, Luke 6:27, John 3:5, John 13:35, Acts 1:8, Romans 10:12-13, Romans 12:2, Romans 12:4-5, 1 Corinthians 12:25-26, 1 Corinthians 12:27, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Galatians 3:28, Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 2:10, Philippians 3:20, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Peter 4:10, 1 John 4:8

We believe that Jesus gave the church the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as visible and tangible expressions of the gospel, pointing to and confirming the inward spiritual reality they signify. Baptism is a visual and symbolic demonstration of our union with Christ in the likeness of His death and resurrection, while the Lord’s Supper signifies our participation in the new covenant that Jesus established through His broken body and shed blood.

Matthew 28:19-20, John 3:5, John 6:35, Luke 22:20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Galatians 3:26-27, Romans 6:3-5, Colossians 2:12, Hebrews 9:15, 1 Peter 3:21-22.

We believe in the imminent, personal, physical, visible, and glorious return of Jesus, the bodily resurrection of the dead, and a single judgment for the just and the unjust. The unjust will be consigned to the second death and eternally separated from the presence of God, while those who have received the free gift of grace will be presented faultless before God. Sin and death will be no more, and all creation will worship eternally in the presence of God in a new heaven and a new Earth that God has prepared for them.

Isaiah 65:17, Matthew 24:27, Matthew 24:30, Matthew 25:31, John 1:14, Romans 14:11, Romans 21:8, 1 Corinthians 15:52, Hebrews 9:27, Hebrews 11:16, 1 Peter 3:13, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, Jude 1:24-25, Revelation 1:7, Revelation 19:11-16, Revelation 20:14-15, Revelation 21:24, Revelation 22:5, Revelation 22:7, Revelation 22:12, Revelation 22:20.

We focus on primary issues, aiming to align our lives with the completed work of Jesus. We appreciate that knowledgeable and thoughtful Christians hold diverse views on secondary issues and trust that God will provide clarity on these matters when we meet Him face to face. In the meantime, we should approach all discussions and disagreements with humility, kindness, and respect.