I Basic Doctrines
1. The Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, fully inspired, without error, complete, and the highest authority for faith and life.
2. Scripture reveals the living triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
3. The one true God is infinite in knowledge, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, truth, and love, and is the creator and sustainer of all things.
4. The Lord Jesus Christ is God manifested in the flesh, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary; he is sinless in nature and in life.
5. The Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, was buried, rose bodily on the third day, ascended to the Father’s right hand, and now intercedes for us.
6. The Lord Jesus Christ will personally return to receive his own and establish his kingdom.
7. The dead will be raised; the saved will enjoy eternal life, and the guilty will face judgment and eternal punishment.
8. All people are sinners, fallen by nature and by choice, and unable to save themselves.
9. Salvation is by God’s free grace, through the blood of Christ, and received by faith in the Lord Jesus.
10. Only those who are born again can enter God’s kingdom; regeneration is the work of the Holy Spirit.
11. Those who repent and believe the gospel of Christ receive forgiveness, redemption, and justification before God.
12. Every believer’s salvation is eternal; the indwelling Holy Spirit empowers a life that pleases God.
13. Christ’s lordship over believers includes the whole person, gifts, time, money, and possessions.
14. Those who repent and trust in Christ are baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ, the church.
15. God elects according to his sovereignty, yet people are responsible before him; the gospel is offered to all who are willing.
16. Christians are not of the world, yet must submit to lawful authority and do good to others.
17. Scripture teaches the personality, power, malice, and final end of the devil.


