Statement of Faith
Doctrinal Statement
I. Holy Bible
We believe the Holy Bible to be the inspired Word of God in the original languages of scripture. God inhaled to the writers all that He wanted mankind to know. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) This means that God inhaled the scriptures by the agent of the Holy Spirit to the original writers, who without putting in their own ideas (2 Peter 1:20-21), accurately recorded (exhaled) all that God inhaled to them.
II. Trinity
We believe in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We also believe the attributes of God to include the following: sovereignty, absolute righteousness, justice, love, eternal life, omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, immutability, and veracity. The Trinity therefore shares these attributes, but have distinct personalities, and functions. God the Father designed the eternal plan. God the Son fulfilled it, and God the Holy Spirit revealed it. (John 6:38; Heb. 10:7; John 16:13; Deut. 6:4, Matt. 28:19)
III. The Total Depravity of Man
We believe that in the original creation Adam was not only created in the likeness of God but was created perfect. Adam sinned through disobedience and through him sin entered the human race causing the entire race to be separated from God. (Gen. 1:26-27; Gen. 3:6-15; Ps. 51:5; Rom. 3:23; Rom. 5:12)
IV. God the Father
We believe that God the Father is the father, and in His master’s grace initiated a plan for redemption and reconciliation through the person of Jesus Christ (John 6:38; Heb. 10:7; Eph. 1:11; 1 Cor. 8:6).
V. God the Son – Jesus Christ
We believe that the second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, became a true man by means of a virgin birth and without disposition of His attribute as God. He humbled himself even to the point of going to the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice so that He might provide salvation to everyone who comes to the Father through Him. (Phil. 2:5-7; John 3:16; 3:36; 14:6; Acts 4:12)