1. We believe that love for one another as Jesus loves the believer manifests our discipleship,
      proves our love for God and symbolizes our authority as New Testament churches. Love is
      therefore the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which all others are
      dependent.
  2. We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible, and that the Bible is the
      all-sufficient rule of faith and practice.
  3. We believe in a personal triune God:  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection.
  4. We believe in the Genesis account of creation.
  5. We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the arch- enemy of God and man, the unholy god of this
      world, and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire.
  6. We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ.
  7. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.
  8. We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches.
  9. We believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was
      completed. Faith, Hope, and Love are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts.
10. We believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived in innocency until he fell by
      voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the result being that all mankind are sinners.
11. We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is
      efficacious only to those who believe.
12. We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of His
      saints.
13. We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of His
      saints.
14. We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event of the
      Gentile Age. This event will include the resurrection of the righteous to eternal heaven,and the
      Millennium will be followed by the resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal punishment in the
      lake of fire and that the righteous shall enter into the heaven age.
15. We believe that the depraved, sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and
      the requisites to regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and
      that the Holy Spirit convicts, regenerates, seals, secures, and indwells every believer.
16. We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not
      perish.
17. We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the disobedient, and
      that He rewards the obedient.
18. We believe that Jesus Christ established His church during His ministry on earth and that it is
      always a local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry
      out the Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ, and each church is an independent, self-governing
      body, and no other ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it. We believe that Jesus
      Christ gave the Great Commission to the New Testament churches only, and that He promised
      the perpetuity of His churches.
19. We believe that there are two pictoral ordinances in the Lord's churches:  Baptism and the
      Lord's Supper.  Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water, administered
      by the authority of a New Testament church in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
      The Lord's Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the members of the church observing
      the ordinance.
20. We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices in a church, pastors and deacons, to be
      filled by men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and First Timothy.
21. We believe that all associations, fellowships, conventions, and their boards or committees are,
      and properly should be, servants of, and under control of the churches.
22. We believe in freedom of worship without interference from the government and affirm our belief
      in civil obedience, unless the laws and regulations of civil government run contrary to the Holy
      Scriptures.