What We Believe

• The divine inspiration and authority of the Scriptures as originally given, and their supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
• The unity of God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
  
• The creation of all things, both visible and invisible, by the work of God; all creation being in, through and for, Jesus Christ the eternal Son of God.
• The universal sinfulness and guilt of man since the Fall, rendering him subject to God's wrath and condemnation and necessitating the regeneration of his whole being.
• Redemption from the guilt, penalty and power of sin only through the sacrificial death (as our Representative and Substitute) of Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God.
• The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
• The expectation of the personal return of Jesus Christ.
• The resurrection of the just and the unjust.
• The eternal punishment of the impenitent.
• The necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit to make the death of Christ effective to the individual sinner, granting him repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ.
• The indwelling and work of the Holy Spirit, granting new life to the Believer and making gifts to the church.   
• The unity and common priesthood of all believers, who together form the one Universal Church, the body of which Christ is the head.

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The Nicene Creed

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
and of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
one in Being with the Father.

Through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation,
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he was born of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.

For our sake he was crucified
under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered died and was buried.

On the third day he rose again
in fulfillment of the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the
Father and the Son.

With the Father and the Son
he is worshipped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy
catholic and apostolic Church.

We acknowledge one
baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come.

Amen.