Statement of Faith

I. THE SCRIPTURES

We believe that the Bible is the Word of God; that it was written by men who were moved by the Holy Spirit so that their writings in the original, were supernaturally and verbally inspired and free from error, as no other writings have ever been or will be. They are the complete and final revelation of the will of God to man, and so are the supreme authority in all matters of faith, conduct and living, and thus render as unnecessary and unbiblical any further prophetic revelations or apostolic signs.

We believe the full historicity and perspicuity of the biblical record of primeval history, including the literal existence of Adam and Eve as the progenitors of all people, the literal fall and resultant divine curse on the creation, the worldwide cataclysmic deluge, and the origin of nations and languages at the tower of Babel.

II. THE TRUE GOD

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

God the Father—We believe in God the Father, perfect in holiness, boundless in love, infinite in wisdom, measureless in power. We believe that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayers, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ, His Son. We believe that He is the creator of the whole universe, including creating human, all the creations, and all the creatures of this world in six solar days.

God the Son—We believe in Jesus Christ, God the Son, pre existent with the Father. We believe in the perfect, complete humanity, and in the full and absolute deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, incarnated Word of God, indissolubly united in one divine-human person, begotten by the Holy Spirit and miraculously conceived and born of the Virgin Mary, sinless in His nature and life, infallible in His teaching, having made atonement for the sins of the world by His substitutionary death on the cross. We believe in His bodily resurrection, His ascension into Heaven, His perpetual intercession for His people and His glorious second advent according to His promise.

God the Spirit—We believe in the deity and personality of God the Holy Spirit. We believe that He came from God to convince and convict the world of sin; to reprove the world of righteousness and of judgment; and to regenerate, sanctify, indwell, comfort, and empower those who believe in Jesus Christ.

III. MAN

We believe that man was created in the image of God on the sixth literal day of the beginning of the world; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also that spiritual death which is separation from God. We believe that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach the age of accountability, become sinners in thought and deed by choice.

IV. SATAN

We believe in the reality and personality of Satan, who is the adversary of God and His children. He was originally created by God, but fell from heaven. His destiny is determined; he will be cast into the Lake of Fire.

V. SALVATION AND ASSURANCE

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who by faith receive Him as their personal Saviour, are justified on the ground of His blood shed on Calvary and His resurrection from the dead and are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become the children of God. We believe in the eternal security of the believer.

VI. THE CHURCH

We believe in the visible local church, which is a company of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized on a credible confession of faith, and associated for worship and fellowship. We believe that to these visible churches was committed for perpetual observance, two ordinances: the baptism of believers and the Lord's Supper. We believe that God has laid upon these churches the task of preaching the Gospel to every creature, and the edification of the individual members of the Body of Christ.

VII. LAST THINGS

We believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead, the saved to eternal life and blessedness in Heaven and the unsaved to eternal, conscious suffering and woe in Hell. We believe that the blessed hope of the believer is the personal, premillennial and pretribulational return of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, to rapture His church; and after the period of tribulation, return with His saints to establish His millennial reign.

VIII. CHURCH AND STATE

We believe that every human being has a direct relationship with God, and is responsible to God alone in all matters of all faith; that each church is independent and autonomous, and must be free from any interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority; and that, therefore, the church and state must be kept separate having different functions, each fulfilling its duties without the dictation and patronage of the other.

IX. CHRISTIAN LIVING

We believe that every saved person should manifest the Christian life through a consistent walk in the Holy Spirit, fully and constantly yielding his members to the indwelling Christ, so that he may always by life and word show forth the praises of Him who has called him out of darkness into His marvelous light. We believe in a separated life, including but not limited to separation from worldly alliances, pleasures, methods of work, and secret societies. Thus, we believe that God’s children should be separated from sin, the world, false teachers, and disobedient brethren, including separation from theological liberalism, neo-evangelicalism, neo-orthodoxy, ecumenism, the charismatic movement, and other unbiblical movements. We believe that it is the responsibility of every Christian to evangelize the lost throughout the world according to the Great Commission of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

X. BIBLICAL CREATIONISM

We believe God created heavens and earth according to the Scriptures. God created all things through this special creation of the existing space-time universe and all its basic systems and kinds of organisms in the six literal days of the creation week. We believe man was created special in the image of God.