What We Believe
Statement of Faith

We believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ, God’s one and only Son, our one and only Savior and in the Holy Spirit, an active and operative person of God, who dwells in every Christian. 

We believe in the Bible--God’s Holy Word, Scripture.  We believe God inspired the autographs (original writings) of the Scripture and those autographs were consequently without error:

We accept the Bible as the final authority for all matters of faith and practice.

We believe the Bible teaches:

That man, created by God, willfully sinned against God and is consequently lost and without hope apart from Jesus Christ.

That salvation--the forgiveness of sins--is only by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

That one receives God’s grace by putting faith in Christ, repenting of sin, confessing Christ, and being baptized in Christ.

We believe that mankind was created in God’s image, and as such is to honor and glorify God in all things. 

We believe that as a consequence of the fall, mankind now relates in a distorted manner to God, himself, others and nature.  All forms of immorality are an expression of this distortion. 

We believe that all immorality with its behaviors, identities, fantasies and lifestyles are sin and need to be totally forsaken.

We believe that freedom from any bondage is desired by God and made possible through repentance, faith in Jesus Christ and the transforming work of the Holy Spirit.

We believe that the Church is the primary instrument that God has chosen to use in ministering that reconciliation and wholeness.