WE BELIEVE that God is the Eternal King. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit,  perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power, and love. From  all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons  of one substance, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in  power and glory.

WE BELIEVE that God's kingdom is everlasting. From His throne, through His Son,  His eternal Word, God created, upholds, and governs all that exists:  the heavenly places, the angelic hosts, the universe, the earth, every  living thing, and mankind. God created all things very good.

WE BELIEVE that Satan, originally a great, good angel, rebelled against God,  taking a host of angels with him. He was cast out of God's presence  and, as a usurper of God's rule, established a counter-kingdom of  darkness and evil on the earth.

WE BELIEVE that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for  relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the  temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing  sin, sickness, and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the  fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of  Adam's original sin. Human beings are born in sin, subject to God's  judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness.

WE BELIEVE that God did not abandon His rule over the  earth, which rule He continues to uphold by His providence. In order  to bring redemption, God established covenants that revealed His grace  to sinful people. In the covenant with Abraham, God bound Himself to  His people Israel, promising to deliver them from bondage to sin and  Satan and to bless all the nations through them.

WE BELIEVE that when Israel rejected God's rule over her  as King, God established the monarchy in Israel and made an  unconditional covenant with David, promising that his heir would  restore God's kingdom reign over His people as Messiah forever.

WE BELIEVE that in the fullness of time, God honored His  covenants with Israel and His prophetic promises of salvation by  sending His only Son, Jesus, into the world. Conceived by the Holy  Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, as fully God and fully man in one  person, He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as  God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, inaugurating God's  kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting  temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick,  casting out demons, and raising the dead. Gathering His disciples, He  reconstituted God's people as His Church to be the instrument of His kingdom. After dying for the sins of the world, Jesus was raised from  the dead on the third day, fulfilling the covenant of blessing given  to Abraham. In His sinless, perfect life Jesus met the demands of the  law and in His atoning death on the cross He took God's judgment for  sin which we deserve as law-breakers. By His death on the cross He  also disarmed the demonic powers. The covenant with David was  fulfilled in Jesus' birth from David's house, His Messianic ministry,  His glorious resurrection from the dead, His ascent into heaven, and  His present rule at the right hand of the Father. As God's Son and  David's heir, He is the eternal Messiah-King, advancing God's reign  throughout every generation and throughout the whole earth  today.

WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit was poured out on the  Church at Pentecost in power, baptizing believers into the Body of  Christ and releasing the gifts of the Spirit to them. The Spirit  brings the permanent indwelling presence of God to us for spiritual  worship, personal sanctification, building up the Church, gifting us  for ministry, and driving back the kingdom of Satan by the  evangelization of the world through proclaiming the word of Jesus and  doing the works of Jesus.

WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in  Jesus Christ and that He is our abiding Helper, Teacher, and Guide. We  believe in the filling or empowering of the Holy Spirit, often a  conscious experience, for ministry today. We believe in the present  ministry of the Spirit and in the exercise of all of the biblical  gifts of the Spirit. We practice the laying on of hands for the  empowering of the Spirit, for healing, and for recognition and empowering of those whom God has ordained to lead and serve the Church.

WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors  of Holy Scriptures so that the Bible is without error in the original  manuscripts. We receive the sixty-six books of the Old and New  Testaments as our final, absolute authority, the only infallible rule  of faith and practice.

WE BELIEVE that the whole world is under the domination of  Satan and that all people are sinners by nature and choice. All people  therefore are under God's just judgement. Through the preaching of the  Good News of Jesus and the Kingdom of God and the work of the Holy  Spirit, God regenerates, justifies, adopts, and sanctifies through Jesus by the Spirit all who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus  Christ as Lord and Savior. By this they are released from Satan's  domain and enter into God's kingdom reign.

WE BELIEVE in the one, holy, universal Church. All who  repent of their sins and confess Jesus as Lord and Savior are  regenerated by the Holy Spirit and form the living Body of Christ, of  which He is the head and of which we are all members.

WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ committed two ordinances to  the Church: water baptism and the Lord's Supper. Both are available to all believers.

WE BELIEVE that God's kingdom has come in the ministry of  our Lord Jesus Christ, that it continues to come in the ministry of  the Spirit through the Church, and that it will be consummated in the  glorious, visible, and triumphant appearing of Christ-His return to  the earth as King. After Christ returns to reign, He will bring about  the final defeat of Satan and all of his minions and works, the  resurrection of the dead, the final judgment, and the eternal blessing  of the righteous and eternal conscious punishment of the  wicked. Finally, God will be all in all and His kingdom-His rule and  reign-will be fulfilled in the new heavens and the new earth,  recreated by His mighty power, in which righteousness will dwell and  in which He will forever be worshipped.