Our Beliefs
The Living God
We believe in the only true and living God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who is holy love,
eternal, unchangeable in being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.​
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The Holy Scriptures
God’s words and actions in creation, providence, judgment, and redemption are witnessed to
by the covenant community in the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.
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God’s Will
God’s will for people and all creation is altogether wise and good. Although revealed in the
scriptures and in the events of nature and history, God’s will is made known supremely in the
person of Jesus Christ, who did God’s will even to death.
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Creation
God is the creator of all that is known and unknown. All creation discloses God’s glory, power,
wisdom, beauty, goodness, and love.
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The Law of God
God gives the moral law to govern human actions and relations. It is the principle of justice
woven into the fabric of the universe and is binding upon all persons.
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Human Freedom
God, in creating persons, gives them the capacity and freedom to respond to divine grace in
loving obedience. Therefore, whoever will may be saved.
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The Abuse of Freedom
In rejecting their dependence on God, the first human parents disrupted the community with God, for
which they had been created. They became inclined toward sin in all aspects of their being.
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God’s Covenant
God acts to heal the brokenness and alienation caused by sin and to restore the human family
to the community through the reconciliation effected in Jesus Christ.
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Christ the Savior
God’s mighty act of reconciling love was accomplished in Jesus Christ, the divine Son who
became flesh to be the means by which the sins of the world are forgiven.
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The Call and Work of the Holy Spirit
God acted redemptively in Jesus Christ because of the sins of the world and continues with the
same intent in the Holy Spirit to call every person to repentance and faith.
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Repentance and Confession
Repentance is that attitude toward God wherein sinners firmly resolve to forsake sin, trust in
Christ, and live in grateful obedience to God.
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Saving Faith
Saving faith is a response to God, prompted by the Holy Spirit, wherein persons rely solely upon
God’s grace in Jesus Christ for salvation.
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Justification
Justification in God’s act of loving acceptance of believers, whereby persons are reconciled to
him by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Regeneration and Adoption
Regeneration is God’s renewal of believers and is solely of God’s grace. Those who trust in the
Lord Jesus Christ is recreated, or born again, renewed in spirit, and made a new person in Christ.
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Sanctification and Growth in Grace
Sanctification is God’s setting apart of believers as servants in the world.
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Christian Assurance
Believers who seek to know and to do the will of God, and who live in him as he lives in them,
may in this life be assured of salvation and thus rejoice in the hope of fully sharing the glory of God.
The Church
There is one, holy, universal, apostolic church. She is the body of Christ, who is her Head and Lord.
Baptism
Baptism symbolizes the baptism of the Holy Spirit and is the external sign of the covenant, which marks membership in the community of faith.
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The Lord’s Supper
Jesus Christ instituted the Lord’s Supper on the night of his betrayal. It is a means by
which the church remembers and shows forth Christ’s passion and death on the cross.
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Death and Resurrection
Death is both a spiritual and physical reality. Therefore, the church has the privilege and duty to
proclaim that in Jesus Christ, God acts to redeem persons from bondage to death, both in spirit and body.
Judgment
The judgment of God is both present and future.