SALVATION:

“Sal­va­tion involves the redemp­tion of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Sav­ior, who by His own blood obtained eter­nal redemp­tion for the believer. In its broad­est sense sal­va­tion includes regen­er­a­tion, sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion, and glorification.”  Salvation is not earned by good works but rather given freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Sav­ior. Your sal­va­tion can not be taken away or lost. It is eternal.

GOD:

“There is one and only one liv­ing and true God. …The eter­nal God reveals Him­self to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with­out divi­sion of nature, essence, or being.”

GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT:

“The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God… He exalts Christ. He con­victs of sin, of right­eous­ness and of judg­ment… He enlight­ens and empow­ers the believer and the church in wor­ship, evan­ge­lism, and service.”

GOD THE SON:

“Christ is the eter­nal Son of God. In His incar­na­tion as Jesus Christ. He was con­ceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the vir­gin Mary… He hon­ored the divine law by His per­sonal obe­di­ence, and in His death on the cross. He made pro­vi­sion for the redemp­tion of men from sin.”

GOD THE FATHER:

“God as Father reigns with prov­i­den­tial care over His uni­verse, His crea­tures, and the flow of the stream of human his­tory accord­ing to the pur­poses of His grace… God is Father in truth to those who become chil­dren of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

THE SCRIPTURES:

“The Holy Bible was writ­ten by men divinely inspired and is the record of God’s rev­e­la­tion of Him­self to man. … It has God for its author, sal­va­tion for its end, and truth, with­out any mix­ture of error, for its mat­ter. … The cri­te­rion by which the Bible is to be inter­preted is Jesus Christ.”

FAMILY:

“God has ordained the fam­ily as the foun­da­tional insti­tu­tion of human soci­ety. … Mar­riage is the unit­ing of one man and one woman in covenant com­mit­ment for a life­time. … The hus­band and the wife are of equal worth before God, since both are cre­ated in God’s image. The mar­riage rela­tion­ship mod­els the way God relates to His peo­ple. … Chil­dren, from the moment of con­cep­tion, are a bless­ing and her­itage from the Lord.”

BAPTISM:

“Chris­t­ian bap­tism is the immer­sion of a believer in water. … It is an act of obe­di­ence sym­bol­iz­ing the believer’s faith in a cru­ci­fied, buried, and risen Sav­ior, the believer’s death to sin, the bur­ial of the old life, and the res­ur­rec­tion to walk in the new­ness of life in Christ Jesus.

STEWARDSHIP:

“God is the source of all bless­ings, tem­po­ral and spir­i­tual; all that we have and are we owe to Him. Chris­tians have a spir­i­tual debtor­ship to the whole world, a holy trustee­ship in the gospel, and a bind­ing stew­ard­ship in their pos­ses­sions. They are there­fore under oblig­a­tion to serve Him with their time, tal­ents, and mate­r­ial possessions.”

THE CHURCH:

“A New Tes­ta­ment church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a local body of bap­tized believ­ers who are asso­ci­ated by covenant in the faith and fel­low­ship of the gospel… and seek­ing to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth…  This church is an autonomous body… The New Tes­ta­ment speaks also of the church as the body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages.”

LAST THINGS:

“God, in his own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appro­pri­ate end… Jesus Christ will return per­son­ally and vis­i­bly… The dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in right­eous­ness. The unright­eous will be con­signed to Hell… The right­eous… will receive their reward and will dwell for­ever in Heaven with the Lord.”

COOPERATION:

“Christ’s peo­ple should… orga­nize such asso­ci­a­tions and con­ven­tions as may best secure coop­er­a­tion for the great objects of the King­dom of God. Such orga­ni­za­tions have no author­ity over one another or over the churches… Coop­er­a­tion is desir­able between the var­i­ous Chris­t­ian denominations.”

EVANGELISM & MISSIONS:

“It is the duty and priv­i­lege of every fol­lower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make dis­ci­ples of all nations… to seek con­stantly to win the lost to Christ by per­sonal effort.”

EDUCATION:

“The cause of edu­ca­tion in the King­dom of Christ is the co-ordinate with the causes of mis­sions and gen­eral benev­o­lence… there should be a proper bal­ance between aca­d­e­mic free­dom and aca­d­e­mic respon­si­bil­ity… The free­dom of a teacher in a Chris­t­ian school, col­lege, or sem­i­nary is lim­ited by the pre-eminence of Jesus Christ, by the author­i­ta­tive nature of the Scrip­tures, and by the dis­tinct pur­pose of which the school exists.”

MAN:

“Man was cre­ated by the spe­cial act of God, in His own image, and is the crown­ing work of His cre­ation… By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race… The sacred­ness of human per­son­al­ity is evi­dent in that God cre­ated man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; there­fore every man pos­sesses dig­nity and is wor­thy of respect and Chris­t­ian Love.

THE KINGDOM:

“The King­dom of God includes both His gen­eral sov­er­eignty over the uni­verse and His par­tic­u­lar king­ship over men who will­fully acknowl­edge Him as King. Par­tic­u­larly the King­dom is the realm of sal­va­tion into which men enter by trust­ful, child­like com­mit­ment to Jesus Christ… The full con­sum­ma­tion of the King­dom awaits the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this age.”

GODS PURPOSE OF GRACE:

“Elec­tion is the gra­cious pur­pose of God, accord­ing to which He regen­er­ates, sanc­ti­fies, and glo­ri­fies sin­ners… All true believ­ers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanc­ti­fied by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall per­se­vere to the end.”