We believe that the sixty-six books of the Holy Bible are the only authoritative, inerrant Word of God. Further, we believe that these Scriptures are our final rule in all matters of faith and practice. We believe that there is but one God, eternally existent in three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
We believe that Adam, the first man, sinned in his disobedience toward God and that through his disobedience sin extended to all his posterity. Consequently, all are born sinners, spiritually dead and relationally separated from God.
We believe that Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, perfect man and truly God, came to earth to fulfill the divine Law through perfect obedience. Having lived a sinless life in obedience to His Father, He gave His life on the Cross as the perfect, complete sacrifice for sin. On the third day, God raised Him from the dead, after He had provided a full redemption for His chosen people—those for whom He died.
We believe that God will regenerate all for whom Christ died through the invincible power of the Holy Spirit. We believe that we sinners appropriate this work, God’s salvation, by His grace alone through faith alone, not as a result of any of our works.
We believe that a true church may be known by its engaging in the pure preaching of the Gospel, the right administration of the sacraments, and faithful exercising of church discipline.
We believe that all Christians will seek to unite in fellowship with such a church.
We believe in the resurrection both of the believer and of the unbeliever—the believer unto the resurrection of everlasting life and the unbeliever unto everlasting damnation.
We believe and embrace the system of doctrine expressed in the early ecumenical creeds of the Church (the Apostles´, the Nicene, the Chalcedonian and the Athanasian) and the confessions of faith issuing from the Protestant Reformation, including the Belgic Confession of Faith, the Heidelberg Catechism, The Philadelphia Confession, the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, and the Westminster Confession of Faith.



