God the Father is the first person of the Trinity, eternally existing with the Son and the Holy Spirit as one God in three persons. He is the sovereign Creator and sustainer of all things, governing the universe according to the counsel of His own will and for the manifestation of His glory. By His grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, sinners who once were alienated from God are reconciled to the Father and adopted as His children.

Jesus Christ is the co-eternal Word of God, the second person of the Trinity, eternally existing with the Father and the Holy Spirit. He is the image of the invisable God and the exact imprint of His nature, through whom all things were created and by whom all things are sustained. Fully God and fully man, Jesus lived a sinless life and offered Himself as the final and sufficient atoning sacrifice for the sins of the world through His death and resurrection. Apart from Christ, there is no salvation, no reconciliation with God and no hope of eternal life.

The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and Son. The Spirit is given to all who repent and place their faith in Jesus Christ and is the seal and assurance of the believer’s salvation. He indwells the Church and works within the saints to sanctify, convict, comfort, teach, and empower them according to the will of God. Through the Spirit, believers are united to Christ and brought into fellowship with the Father and with one another as the body of Christ. The Church is wholly dependent upon the Spirit’s guidance, grace, and illumination to grow in holiness, truth, and obedience. The Holy Spirit testifies that we are children of God and guarantees our inheritance until we enter fully into the presence of the Lord.

From the fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden, all humanity has been plunged into sin and brought under its curse, resulting in spiritual death and separation from God. In Adam, all people are by nature sinful, unable to save themselves, and wholly incapable of attaining righteousness before God. Therefore, all stand under the just judgement of God, for all have sinned and fall short of His glory. Yet, in His mercy and grace, God provides salvation through Jesus Christ, so that all who are united to Him by faith are forgiven, justified, and freed from condemnation, having their guilt fully atoned for by Christ’s finished work.

Jesus Christ is the only means by which humanity can receive salvation. This salvation is a free, unmerited, and undeserved gift of God, granted through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is received by grace alone through faith, as sinners trust in Christ as the final and sufficient atoning sacrifice who fully satisfies the justice and wrath of God. No one is justified before God by works of the Law or human merit, and any attempt to add to the finished work of Christ undermines the suffciency of His Cross and denies the fullness of His atonement.

While good works are the neccessary fruit and evidence of genuine faith, they are not the basis of salvation. Rather, salvation in Christ produces good works in the believer by the transforming power of grace. We are not saved by works, but we are saved unto works—walking in obedience as the result of God’s saving grace at work within us.

All scripture is inspired by God, breathed out by Him through the work of the Holy Spirit, who superintended the human authors so that through their disticnt personalities and contexts they wrote the very Word of God. Given through approximately forty human authors, Scripture is God’s gracious revelation to humanity, given that we might know, believe, and have fellowship with God, being instructed into righteousness.

The Holy Scriptures are wholly true and without error in all that they affirm, and they stand as the final, sufficient, and authoritative foundaiton for the Church. As the living Word of God, Scripture is active and relevant in every generation, by which God speaks with authority to His people today.

Scripture is not subject  to human revision or selective acceptance; it is received as a whole, for god Himself is its author. to reject or set aside the authority of Scripture is ultimately to reject the authority of God who speaks through it.

Therefore, Scripture alone is the supreme and sufficient authority for the Church in all matters of faith and practice. It is the standard by which all teaching is tested, the safeguard for truth, and the sure foundation upon which the Church stands and by which believers are kept form error.

The Church is the redeemed people of God gathered under the Lordship of Jesus Christ to glorify Him through worship, faithful preaching of the Word, holiness, discipleship, prayer, and gospel mission. It is not a building, social club, or entertainment platform, but the body of Christ called to stand apart from the world while lovingly proclaiming truth to it. The Church preaches both God’s holiness and His grace, calls sinners to repentance and faith in Christ, strengthens believers toward spiritual maturity, and serves as a visable witness of Christ’s kingdom in a dark world.

The spiritual gifts are graciously given by God to His people according to His sovereign will for the building up of the Church, the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the glory of God. These gifts are distributed by the Holy Spirit for the edification of the body and are to be exercised in love, order, and humility.

The gift of apostle is unique to the foundational era of the Church and is not normative for today, while other gifts remain active and operative according to God’s purposes.

All gifts are to function within the boundaries and order established by Christ and His apostles, particularly as instructed in passages such as 1 Corinthians 14, so that worship in conducted in a way that is orderly, intelligible, and edifying to the Church. 

While the gifts are valuable and purposeful, they are never to be sought as an end in themselves. The highest aim of the believer in not the exercising of gifts, but the surpassing value of knowing Christ and being known by Him.