There is one God, the creator, who exists eternally in unity as three equal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The triune God is loving, holy, infinite, just, and worthy of all worship.

The Father accomplishes his plan of salvation through both redemption and judgment. All things will be subject to him, and his kingdom will have no end.

The Father sent the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of Mary when she was a virgin. Jesus became fully human while remaining fully God. Anointed by the Spirit, Jesus revealed the Father and the kingdom of God by his sinless life, teaching, and miracles. After he died for our sin, God raised him from the dead, and he is now at the right hand of the Father.

The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father through the Son and gives life throughout creation. The Spirit draws people to repentance and new life in Jesus Christ.

The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is the written revelation of God’s character and saving purposes for humanity and all creation. As God’s revelation, the entire Bible is true and trustworthy, and is the final and absolute authority for belief and conduct. The Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible also enables its interpretation and application.

God created and sustains the heavens and the earth, which display His glory. Formed in the image of God—both male and female—humankind is entrusted with the care of creation as faithful stewards. But through human rebellion, sin and death entered the world, distorting the image of God and all of His good creation.

Angels were created as supernatural beings to worship and serve God. Along with Satan, some angels rebelled and now oppose God’s purposes.

Salvation is available to all people through the loving and redemptive work of the triune God. Through obedience to the Father, Christ gave Himself as a ransom. Though He had no sin, Christ became sin for us—offering Himself and shedding His blood on the cross so that in Him we might be made right with God.

The life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ provide the way of salvation for those who, by God’s grace, repent of their sin and confess faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

Salvation means receiving the Holy Spirit, being forgiven, reconciled with God and others, born again, and liberated from sin and darkness—transferred into God’s kingdom. This experience of freedom includes healing—whether spiritual, physical, emotional, or mental—as a foretaste of the complete restoration to come.

Those who remain in Christ and do not turn away are assured of salvation on judgment day through the indwelling Holy Spirit, who sanctifies and empowers believers to live and serve like Christ.

On the Day of Pentecost, Jesus poured out the promised Holy Spirit on the church. As His return draws near, Jesus continues to baptize believers in the Holy Spirit. This empowers them to continue His work—proclaiming through both speech and action the good news of the kingdom of God.

This experience is available to everyone—male and female, of every age, background, and ethnicity.

The sign of speaking in tongues indicates that a believer has been baptized with the Holy Spirit. It also signifies how Spirit baptism empowers our communication—to be His witnesses in word and deed, and to continue praying in the Spirit.

Jesus Christ is the head of the Church. All who are united with Christ are joined by the Spirit to His body. Each local church is an expression of the universal Church, called to participate in God’s mission to restore all things.

At the center of the Church is the shared experience of God’s transforming presence. The Church responds through worship, prayer, proclamation, discipleship, and fellowship—including the practices of water baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

Baptism by immersion symbolizes the believer’s identification with Christ in His death and resurrection. The Lord’s Supper symbolizes Christ’s body and blood, and our communion as believers. When shared together, it proclaims His death and looks forward to His return.

The Holy Spirit gives gifts to the Church to minister in love, bearing witness to Christ and building up the body of believers.

Our great hope is the imminent return of Christ, who will come in the air to receive His own—both the living, who will be transformed, and the dead in Christ, who will be resurrected bodily. At His second coming, Christ will complete the restoration He began when He first established God’s kingdom.

He will liberate creation from the curse, fulfill God’s covenant with Israel, and defeat all powers that oppose God. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Ultimately, God will judge the living and the dead. This judgment is God’s gracious answer to humanity’s cry for justice and is consistent with His character—loving, holy, and just. The unredeemed will go away into eternal punishment, but the redeemed into eternal life. They will dwell in the presence of God, where there is no more death, sorrow, crying, or pain.

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!