2. God is one, Creator of all things,
infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3. Jesus Christ is true God and true
man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of
the virgin Mary. He died on the cross as a sacrifice for our
sins according to the Scriptures. He arose bodily from the
dead, ascended into heaven, where at the right hand of the
Father, He now is our High Priest and Advocate.
4. The ministry of the Holy Spirit
is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, to convict, regenerate,
indwell, guide, comfort, instruct, gift, and empower the believer
for godly living and service.
5. Every believer is a priest, having
been gifted to minister by the Holy Spirit, has direct access
to God through Jesus, and access to all knowledge through
the Scriptures.
6. People were created in the image
of God, but willfully disobeyed, and are separated from God.
They are reconciled to God only through a personal belief
in Christ's sacrificial death for sin, His burial, and resurrection.
7. Water baptism for believers is
an expression of our spiritual cleansing from sin, and an
identification with Christ's death, burial, and resurrection,
and with His body the Church. Our preferred mode of baptism
is immersion.
8. The Lord's supper is a remembrance
of the Lord's death for us and is to be observed by believers
as Christ commanded.
9. The Church is composed of all people
who, through a saving faith in Jesus Christ, have been regenerated
by the Holy Spirit, and are united together in the body of
Christ, of which Jesus Christ is the Lord and Head.
10. The local church is the visible
expression of the Body of Christ, the true Church; the Lord
has called believers to fellowship together in local, autonomous
congregations.
11. The personal coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ is imminent, and a source of mutual encouragement,
provoking us to righteousness and service.
12. The dead will be resurrected bodily:
the believer to everlasting joy with the Lord, and the unbeliever
to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment.