We believe that God The Father is the first person of the Trinity and is the eternal, unchanging all-powerful, all knowing, all wise, all-loving, completely just and perfectly holy, sovereign Ruler and Sustainer of the universe.

He is the Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and The Father of all true believers.

We believe that Jesus Christ is the second person of The Trinity and is the only eternal Son of God who whilst He has always been, through the

incarnation became flesh to reveal God to man, to fulfill prophecy, and to become The Savior of the lost world. In becoming man Jesus did not cease in any way to be God so that He is fully God and fully man inseparably united in one person forever. Jesus was miraculously conceived by The Holy Spirit; born of the Virgin Mary; lived a sinless life; died on The Cross as the substitutionary, all sufficient atoning sacrifice for all the sins of all men of all time; was buried; bodily rose from the dead; physically ascended into heaven in His glorified, resurrected body; is

seated at the right hand of The Father performing His ministry of intercession; will return in the air to claim His bride the Church; and will come again to earth in

bodily form; personally and visibly, to conclude human history and consummate God’s eternal plan by executing judgment and ushering in His Millennial Kingdom reign to be followed by the eternal state.

We believe that man was created in the image of God by direct act of God and did not come into being as the result of evolution. Man was created to

glorify, God, worship and serve Him and have fellowship with Him. Knowing that man was lonely God gave him a helpmate in the form of a woman thus establishing marriage and the family unit. We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct complimentary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person. Man fell through sin by disobeying God, thus incurring both physical and spiritual death, which alienated him from God. Man’s nature was thus corrupted, and he is utterly lost “dead in trespasses and sins” and totally incapable of saving

himself and coming back into right relationship with God by his own merit or effort.

We believe that Satan is the instigator of evil and a real spirit being, not simply the personification of evil. He is a fallen angel who, under the sovereign

permission of God, has been given temporary rulership of the earth. He was utterly defeated at The Cross, but the execution of his judgment has been

postponed by God until after the Millennial Kingdom when he will be cast into the eternal lake of fire. In the meantime, he deceives the world and seeks to

establish his counterfeit kingdom on earth to discredit and blaspheme God and to tempt, accuse, attack and destroy believers. He can be resisted by the believer through faith and reliance on the power of The Holy Spirit.

We believe that every Christian should live for Christ and not for himself and should, by the power of the indwelling Spirit, allow Christ to manifest His life through him to God’s glory. By ever increasing obedience to the Word of God, each believer should mature and progressively become more like Jesus. In the power of the Spirit, each believer should live a holy life; exercise their spiritual gifts to build up the body of Christ; witness for Christ; be personally involved in making disciples to fulfill the great commission; perform good works and bear fruit to the glory of God. All Christians are under obligation to seek to make the will of God supreme in our own lives and in human society. By the power of The Holy Spirit, we oppose racism, every form of greed, selfishness and vice, and all forms of sexual immorality, including adultery, homosexuality, and pornography. We should work to provide for the orphaned, the needy, the abused, the aged, the helpless and the sick. We should speak on behalf of then unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death.

God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption. Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for the procreation of the human race. The husband and wife are of equal worth before God since both are created in God’s image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loves the church. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation. Children, from the moment of conception are a blessing and heritage from The Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God’s pattern for marriage. Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral values and to lead them, through consistent lifestyle example and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and obey their parents.