God is our loving Creator and Ruler of all life.  He is the one true God, eternally existent in three persons expressed as: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  He chooses to have relationship with humanity.  He is worthy of love, honor, and respect.

The Bible records God’s interaction with humanity, reveals His plan of salvation worked out in history, and unveils our eternal future.  Given by divine inspiration, it is the written word of God, the only unfailing and authoritative rule of faith and practice.

We are physical and spiritual beings with moral conscience and responsibility. Created pure and upright by God, humanity has followed a path of disobedience. In consequence, we become separated from a wholesome relationship with God, fall under the influence of Satan, and become both self-centered and short-sighted.  We are faced with death and impending judgment.

God offers mercy to us.  Through faith in God’s son, Jesus Christ, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit, we receive reconciliation and new life. Saved, we become participants in God’s kingdom, changing to become like Him in character, carrying out His works, and proclaiming His message. When Christ returns, the just will be raised to the resurrection of life and the lost will be sent to eternal damnation. The righteous will share eternity with Christ

Jesus Christ, our Lord, is the only mediator capable of restoring the relationship between God and man.  Before time, a plan was set in place for the unique, eternal, Son of God to create all things and to share our humanity completely.

He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, performed miracles, demonstrated power over Satan, suffered death for our sins, arose physically, and ascended into heaven. He now guides His Church; intercedes for His people, and brings healing to their lives.  He is our peace. This age will be complete with the personal return of Jesus, to raise the dead, to judge all people, and to establish His reign.  Jesus will then give all things over to God, the Father.

The Holy Spirit empowers God’s people.  He leads us into truth, enables us to confess Christ, renews us, and fills us with His presence.  The Holy Spirit supernaturally endows the Church with gifts to be used in life, worship, work, and witness.  The Holy Spirit is a deposit in our lives guaranteeing what is to come.

The Church, in its local expression, is the prime instrument through which God carries out the work of His kingdom in this age.  By His Word and Spirit, God calls us into relational community with the church.  All Christians are called to spiritual unity.