We believe in the one and only true God who lives without beginning or end as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is the Almighty Creator of all that is known and unknown; everything belongs to God and is under His control. God’s knowledge and will for all people and creation are completely wise and good.
We believe Jesus Christ is God’s only begotten Son who is one in Being with the Father. By the power of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the virgin Mary and became man while not ceasing to be fully divine. For our sake, He was crucified, died, and buried. On the third day, He rose again to fulfill the Scriptures and atone for humanity’s sin against God. Jesus ascended into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father as Lord of Heaven and earth. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and His kingdom will have no end.
We believe the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God through which God uniquely reveals Himself to us and forms us. It is trustworthy and is the authoritative voice on Christian living.
We believe all people are made in God’s image and exist for His pleasure—enjoy an intimate relationship with Him and cultivate good in the world. Because sin entered humanity through Adam and Eve, all people are ‘sinners’ and face spiritual death without salvation through Jesus.
We believe salvation is the experience of Christ forgiving personal sin and reconciling people back to God through His work of atonement. Salvation is a work of God’s grace. It is not obtained as payment for good works or moral rightness but through grace alone in response to a person’s faith in Jesus Christ.
We believe the Church is the community of people who have received salvation and been set apart as God’s holy people. She is comprised of the global and local body of Christians. The Church is nurtured and sustained through worship, growing in the knowledge of God, and fellowshipping together. She is commissioned to make disciples of Christ throughout all nations.
We believe baptism is a celebratory testimony to the personal experience of the believer being cleansed from and dying to sin. It represents how our sins are washed away through the blood of Christ (1 Peter 1:18-19). In this cleansing from sin, we have been ‘born again’ into a new life. “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life” (Romans 6:4 NIV).
Therefore, baptism is practiced by either immersion, sprinkling, or pouring of water to symbolize our identity with Christ through His death, burial, and resurrection. Baptism is also an act that initiates a believer into the church. While a person is saved by grace through faith in Christ (Eph 2:8), he or she is united to Christ’s church through baptism. It is a sign and testimony of God’s covenant of grace.