We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God (Is. 40:8; II Peter 1:21).
There is one God, who is infinitely perfect (holy), existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Deut. 6:4; Gen. 1:26).
Jesus was both fully human, and fully God (Phil. 2:5-8; Heb. 4:15), and He is the expressed image of the invisible God (Col 1:15). He was conceived by the Holy Spirit (Is 7:14; Matt. 1:18), born of the virgin Mary (Luke 1:35), and by His life completely fulfilled all righteousness and the law of Moses by never once sinning. He was rejected by man and suffered death by crucifixion, the just for the unjust, thus becoming God’s sacrifice for a lost Mankind (John 1:29; Is. 53:3-5). He rose again on the third day according to the scriptures (I Cor. 15:3-5).
Jesus, being God’s substitutionery sacrifice for Man, justifies all who truly believe that He is the Christ, the Son of the living God as revealed to us by God (Matt 16:16,17).
Jesus died to save us from our sins and from the power of sin which produces death and eternal separation from God (Matt 1:21; Rom. 6:23).
A true believer will repent of all known sin and will fully yield to the Lordship of Christ (Luke 6:46; John 14:15).
All true believers will be more than conquerors through Christ, and sin shall not dominate their lives (Rom. 6:14, 8:37). However, if believers do sin, they can again repent and return to their first love, the Lord Jesus Christ (I John 1:9; Rev. 2:5).
It is the will of God that each believer should be filled with the Holy Spirit (Eph. 5:18), and be sanctified wholly (I Thes. 4:3,7-8, 5:23), being separate from sin and the world and fully consecrated to the will of God by fully presenting himself as a living sacrifice. These are both crisis and progressive encounters wrought in the believer’s life by the Holy Spirit subsequent to conversion.
The evidences of the filling of the Holy Spirit are power for holy living and power for holy service out of a heart purified by faith (Acts 15:8,9; I Peter 1:15,16; Eph. 2:10).
There is a bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; the eternal conscious blessedness of the saved; and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost (Acts 24:15; Rev. 20:11-15).
The second coming of Jesus Christ is imminent and will be visible to the entire world. Those who are truly saved will joyously meet the Savior in the air, which shows the victory over Satan’s last domain. Those who have rejected the Savior will mourn and weep when the reality of the lost condition dawns upon them. The coming of Christ is the believer’s blessed hope and is a vital truth which is an incentive to holy living and faithful service (1 John 2:28, I Cor. 15:52).
