We believe that the triune God is the creator of all things, visible and invisible. and that God created everything from nothing. We believe that each person of the Trinity has eternally existed as One God and is united, present, and active in creation. We believe that all things were created good, and humanity was created in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-27). Creation was initially good, but sin entered the world and distorted creation (Gen. 3). We believe though broken, humanity still retains the dignity and worth as image bearers of God. We believe God rules and reigns over everyone, place and thing. (Gen. 1:-1-2; Gen. 1-3; Col. 1:15-20; Ps. 24).

We believe God’s providence, that He is continually involved and active with all created things. We believe He keeps all things existing, functioning and maintaining the properties with which He created them for. God’s creative power allows creation to be held together by Him. Creation is governed by God in all things and in every action, and can only act according to how God allows in His will and purpose, according to how He created them. He directs their distinct properties, causing them to act as they do and directs them to fulfill His purposes (Heb. 1:3; Col.  1:15-23; Neh. 9:6).

Humanity is part of the gospel story of God in the creation, fall, redemption and restoration of man and creation of God’s Kingdom. Humanity was created in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-27). Therefore, all human life is valuable and should be valued in the highest regard and treated with love and respect, being created in the image of God. We as humans are given the image-bearing responsibility from God to expand His kingdom as we live out God’s cultural mandate to fill the Earth and cultivate it according to His good purpose and design (Gen. 1:28).

We believe sin came into the world through the fall, where Adam and Eve were deceived by Satan (Gen. 3, Rom. 5:12). We believe God allowed sin to enter the world to reveal His glory in the story of His kingdom through the restoration of all things to Himself, and His Kingdom being established in accordance with His will. We believe that through Adam’s sin all humanity inherits a corrupt nature, from generation to generation, which makes all men accountable, inheritors of sin, and depraved in their human state (Rom. 3:9-20; 5:12).

We believe humanity’s depravity is radical in its corruption, pervasive in it’s deception, and perverse in its subjection of humanity as slaves to sin (Rom. 6-7). It extends to all of mankind’s mind, will, body, and affections. We believe humanity apart from Christ lives under the dominion of sin and Satan (Eph. 2:1-3). Therefore man is at enmity with God, hostile toward and hateful of God (Rom. 3:9-20). Mankind’s spiritual state is a result of the Fall and original sin that man inherits, leading us to live as slaves to sin against a holy, righteous God. The only hope to escape God’s wrath and eternal judgement is to be regenerated by God by repenting and believing in the gospel of Jesus to save mankind from sin to new life in Jesus for God’s glory.

We believe that Christ’s work through his life and death for our salvation was the atonement of sins (John 3:16). We believe that both the love of God and the justice of God were the cause of the atonement (Rom. 3:25). We believe that through the atonement of Christ, his perfect obedience is counted as our righteousness (Rom. 5:19), and his suffering and death was in our place. We believe that Christ was the perfect sacrifice for our sins (Heb. 9:26), that he was the propitiation for our sins (1 John 4:10), that he is reconciling us back to God (2 Cor. 5:18-19), and redeemed us from the bondage of sin and Satan (Col. 1:13).

We believe that Jesus Christ physically resurrected from the dead. We believe that the entire New Testament bears witness to the resurrection of Christ. We believe that Jesus Christ’s resurrection was unlike anyone before; he was the “first fruits” of a new life all believers will live (1 Cor. 15:20). We believe that Jesus’ new body was both his actual and new; actual in that the disciples could touch his hands and his feet (Matt. 28:9), and new in that it was imperishable, in glory and in power (1 Cor. 15:42-44).

We believe that Christ’s resurrection ensures our regeneration (1 Pet. 1:3), ensures our justification (Rom. 4:25), and ensures that we will be resurrected as well (2 Cor. 4:14). We believe that after Jesus Christ resurrected, he ascended into heaven (Acts 1:9-11) and is seated at the right hand of the Father (Heb. 1:3). We believe that our union with Christ will enable us to be partakers in the resurrection, ascension, and authority with Christ in the age to come (Rev. 3:21).

We believe in the physical resurrection of the dead for all time when Christ returns. We believe that Christ was the first fruit of what our resurrection will be like (1 Cor. 15:12-58). We believe that when Christ returns, the souls of those who have died and belong to Christ will be joined with their new bodies (1 Thess. 4:14). We believe that for those who have not yet died that belong to Christ on the day of his return, they will immediately be changed into their new resurrected body (1 Cor. 15:51-52). We believe that those who are outside of Christ will resurrect to eternal judgement with Satan and his hosts, being finally separated from the presence of God enduring eternal punishment. (Rev. 20: 7-15). We believe that for those in Christ, our new resurrected bodies will be like Christ’s resurrected body. We believe our resurrected bodies will be physical, imperishable, glorious, powerful, and spiritual (1 Cor. 15:42-49). We believe that our resurrected bodies will be suitable for inhabiting the new heavens and the new earth (2 Pet. 3:13), proclaiming the glory of God who makes all things new (Rev. 21:1-5).