Our complete statement of faith is found in the ARP Edition of the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms. What follows is a brief statement for those new to our congregation and the Presbyterian tradition.
- We believe the Bible is inspired, inerrant, and infallible. It contains no error of history or doctrine. It is what God the Holy Spirit says to all mankind in all times and places.
- We believe in one God who exists eternally as three Persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Each has the fullness of the divine Being, and yet they are not each other. They have existed eternally in glory, perfect joy, and mutual worship and fellowship.
- God created man, male and female, in His image, and instituted marriage between one man and one woman as an expression of His image, for He has existed eternally as a community. We are not free to redefine our individual humanity or the human relationships God has ordained.
- Mankind fell in Adam, our common father and representative before God. From conception each of us is by nature a rebel against God and we are all guilty in His sight.
- Because of His love for His people the Father sent the Son to be born of a virgin, conceived by the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is God the Son, having taken on human nature in addition to His eternal divinity.
- Jesus perfectly obeyed God's law on behalf of His people and died in our place on the cross, for sin demands death. As the new representative of God's people He has earned God's favor and removed our guilt.
- Jesus was raised bodily on the third day following His death on the cross and has ascended to sit in glory at the right hand of the Father in heaven.
- It is through faith alone that we have a right standing with the Father and receive the blessings of salvation, especially being filled with the Holy Spirit.
- All those who believe in Jesus receive new life in Him and will, by the power of the Holy Spirit working in them, live for Jesus. We do so imperfectly, but no believer in Christ will fail to bear fruit for Him.
- We are called to glorify God by living in obedience to Him and sharing the good news of Jesus with others. Love for God and others, especially our fellow believers, is the sum total of God's commandments.
- All of life is worship, yet there are special times of worship in which we fellowship with God as individuals, families, and congregations. Such times belong to God and are set apart from the rest of our lives. Since they belong to God our actions during such times of worship are to be carried out according to God's revealed will and not according to our own ideas or imagination.
- When believers die we go to heaven until the day of resurrection when we will be raised to eternal life with Jesus. Unbelievers are cast out from God's presence and experience the suffering of God's eternal wrath, both before and after the day of judgment. After death there is no opportunity for salvation, nor can anyone be saved apart from faith in Jesus Christ.
- Jesus Christ will return physically to judge the world, deliver His people, and restore all things forever.
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