Question 1

I. We believe in one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Accepted Answer

Matthew 28:19

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

2 Corinthians 13:14

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”

Deuteronomy 6:4

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”

Question 2

II.  We believe the Bible is the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God.

Accepted Answer

2 Timothy 3:16

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”

2 Peter 1:21

“For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”

Psalm 119:105

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

Question 3

III. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ—His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory.

Accepted Answer

John 1:1

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Philippians 2:6-11

“Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

1 Corinthians 15:3-4

“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.”

Question 4

IV. We believe that man was created in the image of God and therefore all human life has been endowed with inherent dignity and must be respected and protected from conception to natural death. We affirm that God created them male and female, and that marriage is a sacred, lifelong union between one man and one woman, established by God as the foundation for family and human flourishing.

Accepted Answer

Genesis 1:27

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Psalm 139:13-16

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

Matthew 19:4-6

“He answered, ‘Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.’”

Question 5

V. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is essential.

Accepted Answer

John 3:5

“Jesus answered, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’”

Titus 3:5
“He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.”

Ephesians 2:8-9

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”

Question 6

VI. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is empowered to live a godly life.

Accepted Answer

Galatians 5:22-23

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”

Romans 8:9

“You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact, the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.”

1 Corinthians 6:19

“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.”

Question 7

VII. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost: the saved to the resurrection of life, and the lost to the resurrection of judgment.

Accepted Answer

John 5:28-29

“Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.”

Daniel 12:2

“And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”

Acts 24:15

“...having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.”

Question 8

VIII. We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in Christ.

Accepted Answer

Ephesians 4:3-6

“Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

John 17:21

“That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”

1 Corinthians 12:12-13

“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.”

What We Believe